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Article: Manager, editor, candlestick maker: everyone agrees it's a tough job, but no one can define it exactly.(managing editor)
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- Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management
- Article date:
- March 15, 1998
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Everyone agrees it's a tough job, but no one can define it, exactly. What's a managing editor? Four common traits surface.
Collette Connor is a juggler, though that is not the formal tide on the masthead of New York City-based Videography. The balls--sharp swords? flaming torches?--in the air involve writing, leaning on writers to meet deadlines, working with the art staff and interviewing job applicants, lining up photos and proofreading.
"A managing editor juggles a lot," says Connor, who was promoted to ME in late 1996 at the 45,000-circulation Miller Freeman monthly for the professional video production industry. "I do everything from writing stories ...