Carine Roitfeld was a highly respected and well-connected fashion stylist with no experience in magazine editing when she took the job as editor-in-chief at Vogue Paris in early 2001.
Readex Research, the company that conducted the survey, revealed that digital duties added the most to editor job descriptions this year.
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Back in the 1980s, I had what turned out to be my best job ever: editor of a local weekly newspaper in Winchester, Massachusetts.
Ms. Wisniewski, a Michigan native who graduated from Pepperdine University last year and moved to New York for a job as an editor at a jewelry-industry magazine, has found it tough to move on in a sluggish economy.
There are a few topics that one should avoid around both the dinner table and the water cooler, says Charles Purdy, senior editor of job site Monster.com and author of Urban Etiquette.
Before something goes on the air it's the editor's job to make sure it's okay.
Even later when family obligations led me to my longest job, as a science editor at the MIT Press, my main enthusiasm, done after hours and gratis, was in using my skills to help out projects having a chance of bringing about social change.
In 2000, she returned to the News of the World, this time in the top job, becoming the youngest-ever editor of a national British paper.
"Every job David has had seems to have been in preparation for the job of redesigning FORBES, " says Executive Editor Lewis D'Vorkin, who supervised the six-month project.
She recently quit her job as a nonprofit communications manager and magazine editor and moved to the opposite coast to be a freelance journalist, copywriter, blogger, and communications professional.
This is not a new concept--the linguist Benjamin Whorf advanced it a long time ago--but Contributing Editor Dan Seligman does a delightful job of bringing it back to life every now and then.
He left a job at the Washington Post to become the national editor and was named the editor of the entire magazine in 2007.
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"Jane did a terrific job at creating the Topshop we know today, " said editor of the British edition of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman.
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The managing editor had expressed doubt when I said I wanted the job.
Two months later, an online entertainment editor quit, and they asked me if I wanted the job.
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The committee has published a second version of the letter, supplied by News International, in which references to the daily editorial conference, editor and Mr Goodman's claims of a deal over his job have been blanked out.
When discussing volunteering opportunities with a nonprofit, have a clear idea of what you can offer in terms of skills and time, but make sure to ask what the organization's needs are, says Allison Jones, an editor at Idealist.org, a site that lists volunteer and job opportunities with nonprofits.
When I was an editor, it was more about me and something special I brought to the job.
LVMH's media division, which owns a radio station and a handful of magazines. (Mr Izraelewicz will keep his job.) On the same day the Figaro group appointed Etienne Mougeotte as the new editor of Le Figaro.
The magazine editor lamented that when she last worked, the Internet was not part of her job.
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However, the paper's public editor has said it is "worth considering whether he is the right person for the job".
Turness, who is 46, became editor of ITV News in 2004, the first woman and youngest person to hold that job.
While seven-figure bonuses have become the norm for top baseball picks, the league has actually done a pretty good job of taming the inflation that was so rampant in the 1990s, according to Baseball America Executive Editor Jim Callis.
Mr Frankel was rewarded with Mr Oakes's job and then, after he had shifted the paper rightward to the middle-ground, with the editor's chair.
As arts editor, Kinmonth did sittings with big names like Lord Snowdon and Bruce Weber, but his job sealed two other relationships that have shaped his life since.
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On the last day of its existence, the News of the World was a subdued place as journalists got on with the job of putting out "the best product" possible, said Paul McNamara, the paper's defense editor.
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