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subeditor

[ UK /sˈʌbɪdˌɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an assistant editor

How To Use subeditor In A Sentence

  • Sometimes a Mencken column went on for pages, and woe betide the subeditor who cut him. Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High
  • The subeditors prepare the reporters' copy for the paper.
  • For sure, however, every schoolboy (of my generation anyway) knows when at teatime on 16 September the final score – Devon 4 New Zealand 55 – was received by the London sports news agency, the unbelieving subeditor confidently presumed a transmission error and reversed the result to Devon 55 New Zealand 4. How the original All Blacks went down in the annals of history
  • I'm fortunate enough to make a bit of money from commissions, but I also earn a living as a freelance subeditor, which is very agreeable. BugPowder Weblog
  • Could create job of personal subeditor, perhaps from ranks of ex-NOTW staff – do log on and send messages of support. Lucy Mangan's pick of the week: the story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
  • This is not the headline a Times subeditor might have chosen, nor any fair-minded one, because it made Mr Bower's argument even sillier than it was in the first place.
  • Many a subeditor would be lost without "war", "battle" and "fight" – all appealingly pithy and loaded headline words – but again, where's the elegant variation? Let's declare war on these tired military metaphors
  • But if they are good, the options for redeployment within News Corp are endless, so there is much interest in the list circulating right now that has everything from subeditor jobs at Dow Jones to positions at Rupert's Asian company, Star TV. Hugh Muir's diary
  • The subeditors prepare the reporters' copy for the paper and write the headlines.
  • Chaumette we saw mounted on bourne-stones, while Tallien worked sedentary at the subeditorial desk. The French Revolution
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