Editors talk about editing: conversations about craft, meaning and judgment

TY - BOOK

T1 - Editors talk about editing

T2 - conversations about craft, meaning and judgment

AU - Greenberg, Susan L.

N1 - Dr Susan L. Greenberg is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton, following a long career as journalist and editor. She teaches and offers doctoral supervision in her specialist areas of narrative nonfiction, and publishing. Susan is also the Publisher of the department’s in-house imprint, Fincham Press.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - publishing, editing, journalism, communication, mass media, writing,

M3 - Book

SN - 9781433120039

SN - 9781433120046

BT - Editors talk about editing

PB - Peter Lang

CY - New York

ER -