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Managing Editor

Definition: Managing Editor

Managing Editor

Noun

1. The editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Managing Editor

DomainDefinitions

Occupations

Negotiates with newspaper owner's representative to establish publication policies, and directs editorial activities of newspaper departments: Confers with executive staff to discuss editorial policy, makeup plans, changes in staff organization, news coverage of special events, and similar decisions. Relays information to department heads. Coordinates work of editorial departments in accordance with newspaper policy. Directs general page makeup of publication. Inspects final makeup of editions and rearranges makeup to meet emergency news situations. Originates plans for special features or projects and assigns department heads to implement them. May write leading or policy editorials. In smaller establishments may perform duties of EDITOR, NEWS (print. & pub.) 132.067-026; and EDITOR, CITY (print. & pub.) 132.037-014. (references)
 Supervises and coordinates activities of radio or television news gathering staff: Maintains contact with outside news agencies, police and fire departments, and other news sources to obtain information regarding developing news items. Determines priority and assigns coverage to news units. Originates or approves ideas for news features. Confers with DIRECTOR, NEWS (radio-tv broad.) 184.167-014 and department heads to coordinate production activities. Reads and edits news copy to ensure that slanderous, libelous, and profane statements are avoided or deleted. Prepares rundown of news stories and assignment sheets, using computer. Communicates with reporters on assignments, using two-way radio. May direct or participate in writing and editing activities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Managing Editor

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Niger

The Minister of Interior took legal action against the founder of the weekly, the managing editor, and a reporter. (references)

Sierra Leone

The were no developments in the February 2000 arrest of Ayodele Lukobi Johnson, the managing editor of Rolyc newspaper, and reporter Ayodele Walters. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

In December 2000, Equatorial Guinean Administrative Council President Manuel Nze Nzongo removed La Opinion Managing Editor and President of ASOPGE Pedro Nolasco Ndong from his position as editor. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

In August following the release of the SCHR report, a judge recommended that the Attorney General charge Professor Onesmus Mutungi, chairman of the SCHR, with contempt of court for releasing the report, and Joseph Odindo, managing editor of the Daily Nation newspaper, for publishing the conclusions of the report. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

In October authorities arrested and detained for 3 days Taban and Nhial Bol, managing editor of the Khartoum Monitor, a newspaper that was critical of the Government's human rights record. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Managing Editor

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

managing editor

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Managing Editor

Language Translations for "managing editor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مدير التحرير. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

主幹 (chief editor, manager). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅか" (chief editor, ego, letter, management, manager, subject, subjectivity, supervision, supervisor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anagingmay editoray

   

Swedish

  

redaktionschef (copy-taster, editor-in-chief). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chủ bút. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Managing Editor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-t"

-2 letters: emargination.

-3 letters: deaminating, deamination, denigrating, denigration, germinating, germination, marginating, margination, reanimating, reanimation.

-4 letters: admiration, antimodern, antimonide, deraigning, derogating, detraining, diagraming, dominating, emigrating, emigration, endamaging, eradiating, garmenting, geminating, gemination, indagating, indagation, inordinate, maintained, maintainer, margenting, marginated, marinading, marinating, marination, moderating, montagnard, mordanting, ordainment, originated, redamaging.

-5 letters: adornment, angiogram, animating, animation, antiaging, aragonite, arointing, damnation, dangering, deranging, detaining, dogearing, emanating, emanation, enamoring, engirding, gandering, gardening, gradating, gradation, granitoid, inanimate, indagator, ingrained, integrand, intergang, magnetron, mandating, manganite, marginate, margining, marinated, mediating, mediation, mentoring, migrating, migration, mongering, montaging, morganite, mortgaged, nominated, omnirange, ordaining, orienting, originate, radiating, radiation, rationing, regaining, reimaging, remaining, remanding, reminding, reminting, rendition, retaining, tragedian.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Managing Editor


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 6E 61 67 69 6E 67      45 64 69 74 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101110 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000101 01100100 01101001 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#110 &#97 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#69 &#100 &#105 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006E 0061 0067 0069 006E 0067      0045 0064 0069 0074 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47678067737580732397075868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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