The Editor

The editor in the magazine is the ultimate boss. She (or he) has assistants who are in charge of different sections. They have contributors, reporters and columnists too, who are all experts in their own fields. As Mr.Noorani said:

“I write travel pieces and reviews of books, music and art exhibitions, but I have no knowledge of business and industry so I will not attempt that subject, nor will I be asked to write on them.”

Mr.Asim Noorani

The editor is considered senior to production director, finance director, marketing directors (one responsible for advertising and the other for circulation), HR chief and the procurement head. He is in some ways a more privileged person in the newspaper industry.

Under the editor there are assistant editors or senior subeditors responsible for the leader and op-ed pages (abbreviated from opposite the editorial page), news pages, city pages, business and financial pages, sports pages and magazines.

In the case of news section, under the news editor there are shift in charges, who work in two shifts, one that commences in the afternoon and ends till the late evening, and the second shift, often nicknamed the graveyard shift which works till the early hours of the morning. The shift in-charges have subeditors working for them, whose job is to edit the copies. The shift in-charge of the second shift gets the news pages done, both national pages and international pages. The city editor has subeditors too and he gets the page makers to make his pages. The city editor has reporters and photographers working for him. In some leading foreign papers they have photo editors too, who work for the news editors. They commission the photographs and determine the size of its publication.