Sentences with phrase «in hiring an editor»

Do your due diligence in hiring an editor.

And I definitely agree that anyone considering indie publishing must invest in hiring editors as well as professional formatters and cover designers.

The book also takes time to explain key steps in hiring an editor, what you should expect to pay, and contractual issues that a new author may not think about.

Not exact matches

Along with Harris, the two pitched the idea of a standalone political news and commentary site to the Washington Post in 2006 but were ultimately disillusioned with the response, so they took the idea to Allbritton — and eventually hired more than a few senior reporters and editors away from both the Washington Post and other newspapers.

Tumblr took a step in this direction in February when it hired its own editors, while LinkedIn (LNKD) continued to aggregate and build out original content as part of an effort it launched in 2011.

Reuters tried to create a web - based media operation too, spending millions to hire writers and editors and investing tens of millions in a new content system — and then a new CEO pulled the plug, saying the returns didn't justify the investment.

I remember being at a startup where I was hired in as a writing editor, then molded into video editor, and then even a partnerships lead.

For the first year and a half, Hardwick ran the blog alone, doing all the coding, writing and photoshopping himself, until, awash in TV work, he had to hire writers and an editor to help keep the content fresh.

If you have your story written out, but are not confident in the quality of the content, you may want to look into hiring an editor or even a ghostwriter to help enhance your story.

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.

Late last year, Fusion seemed full of promise: the company was hiring a number of leading writers and editors, such as former Atlantic editor Alexis Madrigal and former Reuters writer Felix Salmon, and was spending fairly large sums of money in order to do so.

Johnson entered the fashion scene in 1964 when she won Mademoiselle magazine's guest editor contest, and was soon hired as the top designer for hot boutique Paraphernalia.

Within three weeks after hiring Hutchinson, Morrison left for two months in Europe, leaving the magazine in the hands of his new managing editor.

For example, it maintained a respectable record of placing women on the editorial staff; when Margaret Frakes was hired in 1949 she was the publication's fourth female editor.

Jeffery Goldberg, editor - in - chief at The Atlantic, says the publication is committed to having a diverse stable of writers (part of what motivated him to hire Williamson), but Williamson's remarks were «callous and violent.

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.

Then in the mid-1990s, I hired a couple of editors who were different than our traditional readership — they were athletes, really into fitness, and they found that natural parenting worked well with their lifestyle.

For the Conservatives are about to admit that Neil Wallis, the former News of the World former deputy editor, was hired by David Cameron's communications chief Andy Coulson in the run - up to the general election on a consultancy basis, the BBC are reporting.

Persuading my editor to let me hire a vintage VW camper for a week to tour some of the most marginal (and beautiful) seats in the West Country seemed like quite a coup at the time.

His hiring of former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as director of communications was also, in part, a strategic move to gain an inside track into News Corporation's workings.

All of this extraordinary and well - publicised activity around the News of the World nevertheless apparently escaped the attention of Andy Coulson, even though he had been hired early in 2000 to be deputy editor of the paper under his close friend, Rebekah Wade.

News UK has also hired Tony Gallagher, the deputy editor of the Daily Mail, as editor - in - chief of the Sun.

Former News of the World editor Mr Coulson quit his Downing Street job on January 21st, prompting questions about Mr Cameron's judgment in hiring him at No 10.

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The letter to the editor that Conner emailed in December criticized COR Development for seeking tax breaks from Onondaga County without making a stronger commitment to local hiring.

Edmondson was hired by Neil Wallis, then Coulson's deputy editor at the paper, in November 2004 as a news executive although, according to the former News of the World source, «Edmondson reported directly to Andy because he was the editor.

The Rockland County Times confirms that guards were hired and remain posted in front of the homes of Journal News President Janet Hasson and Journal News Executive Editor Cynthia Lambert, alias CynDee Royle.

In his most difficult day since becoming Conservative leader, Mr Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise for hiring as his media chief ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who was arrested yesterday and held for ten hours.

Cable has made a string of hires in recent weeks, including a new chief of staff, Fiona Cookson, who was Cable's head of press in government, and press secretary Mark Leftly, the ex-deputy political editor of the Independent on Sunday.

«What this paper essentially tells us is that we have important, fundamental and basic forces working in the academic hiring system that are working against diversity, and that should be troubling to everyone in higher education,» said Marcia McNutt, the editor - in - chief of Science Advances.

Katie Cottingham reports on hiring trends in patent law in the U.S., with additional reporting on the situation in Europe from UK editor Kirstie Urquhart and German editor Eick von Ruschkowski.

The signatories — including Science Editor - in - Chief Bruce Alberts, who wrote an editorial on the subject in this week's issue of Science — make 18 recommendations, most of which discourage journal editors and hiring managers from considering only the prestige of the journals that applicants have published in and ignoring the content and impact of his or her actual research.

In 1997, Ko - Ferrigno applied for a manuscript - editing job at the journal Cell, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was hired as a senior editoIn 1997, Ko - Ferrigno applied for a manuscript - editing job at the journal Cell, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was hired as a senior editoin Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was hired as a senior editor.

I'm also in the process of expanding the team and hiring a part - time assistant and editor (inquiries welcome!).

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Late in 1972, Wyatt's then girlfriend and future wife, the artist Alfreda Benge, was hired as second assistant editor for the just - beginning Roeg production.

I was hired as full - time Associate Editor after receiving my Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude, in May 2014.

In between, Scholastic had hired me to be the editor of Let's Find Out, a kindergarten magazine.

Today, the only person with a longer tenure than me at Automobile Magazine is editor - in - chief Jean Jennings, but when I was hired, I was among the magazine's youngest employees, with no background in publishing but with a good eye for proofreading and copy editing.

I tell my clients to (temporarily) disregard the feedback in literary agent rejection letters, because, if I'm working with the author in a long - term program to help them get literary agents reading their work, I know their writing is at a high enough level that they should give the manuscript a chance before making radical revisions and / or hiring an editor.

Well, I started the process in 2006, and then I hired an editor (yes, through iUniverse) and after that I did an * extensive * rewrite that lasted nearly a full year, so it was published in 2007.

As an author, do you want to hire an editor from an organization that is based in a country in which you live?

Get in - depth information about choosing an e-publishing platform; hiring editors, designers, publicists, and other freelancers; working with ebook retailers; registering ISBNs; creating EPUB files from scratch; marketing your work; and more.

(I hired an editor, and it was the best $ 1000 I spent) so in this regard, paying for it helps, but some of the things are easy, and Createspace shows you how to do it in a video.

Rewriting blurbs, hiring another editor, changing the cover, playing with the price and promotions, all of these things make the lack of success harder to bear in some ways.

Or, that in some situations it's easier or more cost - effective to hire a designer / editor team.

Secondly, I believe that there is a lot of crap in self - publishing, due to lazy, sloppy writers who want to call themselves an author but don't bother to learn the craft first and don't begin to understand the marketing value of hiring an editor before you subject the world to your tome.

An Indie writer has his group of beta - reader, hires his proofreader, works with an editor and is in the black if his book is good.

Shortly after the initial release, authors will be able to work on their manuscript in real - time with their editors, who they can hire through the Reedsy Marketplace.

The liberal blogging platform said it is going to hire Australian editors and reporters to work in Sydney independently of Fairfax.