Editors

Also called: Editor, News Editor, Newspaper Copy Editor

Career Cluster: Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications
What they do:
Plan, coordinate, revise, or edit written material. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication.
On the job, you would:
  • Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
  • Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
  • Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication, and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.
Knowledge icon KNOWLEDGE

Communications
  • multimedia
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Education and Training
  • teaching and course design
Business
  • management
  • administrative services
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Basic Skills
  • reading work related information
  • writing things for co-workers or customers
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Ideas and Logic
  • come up with lots of ideas
  • group things in different ways
Verbal
  • read and understand what is written
  • communicate by writing
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People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Leadership Orientation
  • Achievement Orientation
  • Intellectual Curiosity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Integrity
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You might use software like this on the job:

Web page creation and editing software
  • Facebook
  • WordPress
Desktop publishing software
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Microsoft Publisher
Word processing software
  • Google Docs
  • Microsoft Word
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Bachelor's degree or Master's degree
usually needed
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New job opportunities are less likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $140,840.00
Median: $75,260.00
Low: $36,200.00
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