| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Mass Communication and Journalism ; 11 |
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Mass communication and journalism (Peter Lang Publishing) ; v. 11
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Hampton Press communication series. Mass communications and journalism ; 11
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| Contents |
Content: Johnny Grimond, The Economist - Adam Moss, New York magazine - Ileene Smith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Jerome McGann, University of Virginia - Mary Hockaday, BBC Multimedia Newsroom - John McIntyre, The Baltimore Sun - Philip Campbell, Nature - Louise Doughty, Novelist - Carole Blake, Literary Agent, Blake Friedmann - Constance Hale, Book Editor - Peter Binfield, PeerJ - Phoebe Ayers, Wikimedia Foundation - Evan Ratliff, Atavist |
| Summary |
The work of "editing" is by and large something that happens behind the scenes, noticed only when it is done badly, or not done at all. There is not much information about what editors do. The result is that editing is not often talked about in its own right - not even by the people who do it. This collection of interviews attempts to fill some of the gaps. The author, a former editor herself, interviews practitioners at the top of their game - from newspapers, magazines, broadcast news, book publishing, scholarly editing, academic publishing and digital curation. The interviewees think out loud about creativity and human judgment; what they have in common and what makes them different; how editing skills and culture can be shared; why editing continues to fascinate; and why any of this might matter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index |
| Subject |
Editors.
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Book editors -- United States -- Interviews.
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Periodical editors -- United States -- Interviews.
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Newspaper editors -- United States -- Interviews.
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Publishers and publishing -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781453915233 (electronic bk.) |
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