Description
The work of editing is by and large something that happens behind the scenes, noticed only when it is done badly, or not done at all. There is not much information about what editors do. The result is that editing is not often talked about in its own right – not even by the people who do it. This collection of interviews attempts to fill some of the gaps. The author, a former editor herself, interviews practitioners at the top of their game – from newspapers, magazines, broadcast news, book publishing, scholarly editing, academic publishing and digital curation. The interviewees think out loud about creativity and human judgment; what they have in common and what makes them different; how editing skills and culture can be shared; why editing continues to fascinate; and why any of this might matter. Susan L. Greenberg (PhD, University College London) took up teaching and research after a long career as a writer and editor. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton and a founding member of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS). Content: Johnny Grimond, The Economist – Adam Moss, New York magazine – Ileene Smith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Jerome McGann, University of Virginia – Mary Hockaday, BBC Multimedia Newsroom – John McIntyre, The Baltimore Sun – Philip Campbell, Nature – Louise Doughty, Novelist – Carole Blake, Literary Agent, Blake Friedmann – Constance Hale, Book Editor – Peter Binfield, PeerJ – Phoebe Ayers, Wikimedia Foundation – Evan Ratliff, Atavist.
