Magazine editor

Magazine editors have a huge amount of responsibility, they plan, coordinate, direct and oversee all material that is published in a magazine. The magazine editor is responsible for choosing the next theme and decides what type of copy, graphics, advertisements, and layout each issue will have. The magazine editor holds meetings with publication executives, department chairs, and members of staff to establish policy guidelines, publication goals, production schedules, discuss organisational changes, and resolve problems. Fashion editors supervise the process of creating, developing and presenting content for fashion-specific magazines, photo shoots, websites, newspaper sections, or television shows.

Depending on the size of the magazine, there may be many levels of editors, from managing editors to assistant editors to editors of specific departments within the magazine.

Although duties vary depending upon circulation size, general responsibilities include assigning stories to reporters; editing articles for content, sentence structure and grammar; writing stories; deciding what stories and photos to include in each issue; and overseeing all steps of production. A fashion magazine editor works with designers, merchandisers, photographers, stylists, models, writers and copy editors.

Specific duties of each level will vary; a managing editor may be responsible for planning and approving content for the overall publication while a department editor focuses on one area of the magazine. Generally, editors review, rewrite and edit the magazine content, oversee the production of the publication and sometimes contribute their own writing.