Manuscript editor vs assistant editor

Differences between manuscript editor and assistant editor duties and responsibilities

Manuscript editor example responsibilities.

• Manage editorial team to create secondary-education textbooks.
• Typeset editorial content and manage paste-up board production.
• Revise fiction manuscript through content organization, proofreading, and line editing
• Provide editing services for both fiction and non-fiction manuscripts.
• Proofread galleys as final quality check, adding author responses to queries before typesetting and production.
• Provide manuscript support services, including editing, proofreading, and formatting, for approximately 100 full-time faculty members.
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Assistant editor example responsibilities.

• Lead bureau newsgathering in high-pressure, breaking news situations.
• Manage the budget for all of VOA s primary newsgathering.
• Produce e-newsletters, manage website content, write headlines and captions, utilize SEO and analyze digital traffic.
• Communicate with transportation managers, administrators, equipment operators and others for fulfillment of copy to achieve editorial goals.
• Ensure compliance with PRC and FDA guidelines.
• Increase social media presence and traffic through Facebook and Instagram.
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