When Kagan was trying to
hire an editor recently, he set applicants three incredible simple tasks: email their response to a job - specific email address, include a link to their LinkedIn profile, and pick out four grammar and spelling mistakes in the ad.
First, ask yourself: Do I know anyone who has
hired an editor recently and might be able to recommend one?
Not exact matches
While SI did not go out and
hire a new picture
editor to commemorate anything in particular, it does seem like a fitting moment to introduce John Dominis, once a famous LIFE photographer and most
recently picture
editor of our sister publication PEOPLE, from whom we obtained him for an unspecified amount of cash and a 1,000 mm.
Ben Max, a pioneer of digital politics and founder of Decide NYC, was
recently hired as Executive
Editor at the Gotham Gazette.
Although TechCrunch
editor Michael Arrington
recently posted an April Fool's joke about
hiring a matchmaker to find him a wife, matchmaking services are becoming an alternate (and pricier) way to find a mate (think Millionaire Matchmaker).
Though the
editor - for -
hire market has only
recently started to reflect it, the shift away from in - house editing and the ebb of opportunities for new authors (first novelists especially) began some time ago.
Tweet A writer asked me
recently how can she get her work edited if she can't afford to
hire an experienced freelance
editor.
«If you want to grow in this field, you need to
hire people who have more experience than you,» Vladimir Funtikov
recently said in an interview with Äripäev (an Estonian financial newspaper —
editor).
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recently, the company has been adding «curation» - type features thanks in part to its acquisition of Summify, and also
hiring editors to create editorial products with partners, such as the one Twitter just announced with Nascar.