Практикум по чтению и переводу профессиональных текстов по книгоизданию и редактированию. Английский язык

17) editor-in-chief – главный редактор

18) editor at-large – автор передовых статей

19) anthology – антология, хрестоматия

20) compilation – составление, компиляция

21) edition – издание

22) makeup editor – редактор верстки

23) sponsoring editor – редактор-спонсор

24) acquisitions editor – рецензент издательства

25) commissioning editor – выпускающий редактор

26) ghost writing – написание статьи за другого

27) substantive editor – независимый редактор

28) content – содержание

29) editorial – передовая статья

30) encompass – охватывать

31) in concert – во взаимодействии

32) to set – устанавливать

33) to chair – председательствовать

34) ombudsman – служащий, рассматривающий жалобы (омбудсмен)

35) city editor – редактор отдела местных новостей

36) copy desk – редакция

37) opt-ed – колонка комментариев

38) wire media – мультимедийные средства массовой информации

2. Read the text below and retell it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing)

WHAT IS EDITING

Editing is the process of preparing language, images, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media. A person who edits is called an editor. In a sense, the editing process originates with the idea for the work itself and continues in the relationship between the author and the editor. Editing is, therefore, also a practice that includes creative skills, human relations, and a precise set of methods.

Print media

There are various levels of editorial positions in publishing. Typically, one finds junior editorial assistants reporting to the senior-level editorial staff and directors who report to senior executive editors. Senior executive editors are responsible for developing a product to its final release. The smaller the publication, the more these roles run together. In particular, the substantive editor and copy editor often overlap: fact-checking and rewriting can be the responsibility of either.

Newspaper and wire services copy editors correct spelling, grammar, and matters of house style, design pages and select of news stories for inclusion. At UK and Australian newspapers, the term is «sub-editor.» They may choose the layout of the publication and communicate with the printer – a production editor. This and similar jobs are also called «layout editor,» «design editor,» «news designer,» or – more so in the past – «makeup editor.» Magazine editors include a top-level editor may be called an editor-in-chief. Frequent and esteemed contributors to a magazine may acquire a title of editor at-large or contributing.

In the book publishing industry, editors organize anthologies and other compilations, produce definitive editions of a classic author’s works («scholarly editor»); and organize and manage contributions to a multi-author book (symposium editor or volume editor). Finding marketable ideas and presenting them to appropriate authors: a sponsoring editor. Obtaining copy or recruiting authors such as: an acquisitions editor or a commissioning editor for a publishing house. Improving an author’s writing so that they indeed say what they mean to say in an effective manner – a substantive editor. Depending on the writer’s competence, this editing can sometimes turn into ghost writing. Substantive editing is seldom a title. Many types of editors do this type of work, either in-house at a publisher or on an independent basis. Changes to the publishing industry since the 1980s have resulted in nearly all copy editing of book manuscripts being outsourced to freelance copy editors.

Executive editor

The top editor sometimes has the title executive editor or editor-in-chief. This person is generally responsible for the content of the publication. The exception is that newspapers that are large enough usually have a separate editor for the editorials and opinion pages in order to have a complete separation of its news reporting and its editorial content.

The executive editor sets the publication standards for performance, as well as for motivating and developing the staff. The executive editor is also responsible for developing and maintaining the publication budget. In concert with the publisher and the operating committee, the executive editor is responsible for strategic and operational planning.

Newspapers

Editors at newspapers supervise journalists and improve their work. Newspaper editing encompasses a variety of titles and functions. These include:

• Copy editors

• Department editors

• Managing editors and assistant or deputy managing editors (the managing editor is often second in line after the top editor)

• News editors, who oversee the news desks

• Photo or picture editors

• Section editors and their assistants, such as for business, features, and sports

• Editorial Page Editor who oversees the coverage on the editorial page. This includes chairing the Editorial Board and assigning editorial writing responsibilities. The editorial page editor may also oversee the op-ed page or those duties are assigned to a separate op-ed editor.

• Top editors, who may be called editor in chief, executive editor or sometimes just editor

• Readers’ editors, sometimes known as the ombudsman, who arbitrate complaints.

• Wire editors, who choose and edit texts from various international wire services, and are usually part of the copy desk

• Administrative editors (who actually don’t edit but perform duties such as recruiting and directing training).

The term city editor is used differently in North America and South America, where it refers to the editor responsible for the news coverage of a newspaper’s local circulation area (also sometimes called metro editor), than in the United Kingdom, where it refers to the editor responsible for coverage of business in the City of London and, by extension, coverage of business and finance in general.

3. Answer the following questions:

1. What is editing? What can be edited?

2. What do the editors —in- chief do? What is their main responsibility?