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Article: Ten young editors to watch. (Draft Picks).
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, 33, Harper's
TRACK RECORD: She has a Harvard Ph.D. in English, but before turning to magazine editing, she wrote for VH1 and MTV. Currently the TV critic for Slate. Heffernan was an editor for Talk magazine and a free-lance writer/editor for The New York Times before moving to Harper's.
EDITING STYLE: Stealth. "Many American editors are determined to rewrite everything," says the British documentarian Nicholas Fraser, whose piece on the cultural split between America and Europe Heffernan edited. "But she improves pieces very deftly. You are made to feel that you did all the work, which is always nice even when it isn't true."