The sub-editor scribbled in silence for a moment or two.
Ernestine swung open the entrance door to the "Hour", and passed down the rows of desks until she reached the door at the further end marked "Sub-Editor." She knocked and was admitted at once.
Willis, who for some time employed Poe as critic and
sub-editor on the "Evening Mirror," wrote thus:
He had been on a tea plantation in Ceylon and a traveller in America for Italian wines; his secretaryship of the water company in Toledo had lasted longer than any of his employments; he had been a journalist and for some time had worked as police-court reporter for an evening paper; he had been
sub-editor of a paper in the Midlands and editor of another on the Riviera.
Later on, when it no longer mattered, he learned that the associate editors and
sub-editors augmented their salaries by supplying those paragraphs themselves.
If I'm to be editor you'll all have to be
sub-editors, and have charge of a department."
LAHORE -- The Punjab University Tuesday awarded a PhD degree to Nawa-i-Waqt Senior
Sub-Editor Shah Nawaz Tarrar.
But I have worked for daily newspapers for many decades, both in East Africa usually, indeed, as a "gatekeeper" -- and in Europe ("gatekeeper" being a legitimate description of any newspaper employee known as a "
sub-editor").
Wilson Henry has worked as a writer, editor and group
sub-editor for a variety of journals and magazines in Malaysia and Singapore and these included Esquire, Timeout KL, The Edge Review and Le Prestige, among others.
Mike (above) was a true gentleman of Fleet Street and rose to become chief sports
sub-editor during a 40-year career at the Daily Mirror before retiring in 2008.
There are different kinds of editors, but two seem especially relevant here: the substantive editor (hereafter,
sub-editor) and the copy editor.
Nazeer joined Jang around three decades ago as a
sub-editor and then became its news editor.