Manuscript editor vs editorial assistant

Differences between manuscript editor and editorial assistant 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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Editorial assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage social media content using Hootsuite.
• Manage Instagram account and promote content on all social media pages.
• Manage resources of more than 30 CNN bureaus around the world.
• Produce content for a locally known lifestyle blog, edit, and manage social media accounts such as Pinterest and Google+.
• Contribute through blogging, copy editing, participating in weekly editorial meetings, and managing social channels
• Lead editorial oversight of web and television viewer-submit text, email and online messages according to company and industry guidelines.
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