Sentences with phrase «life as an editor»

In my more recent life as an editor, I've seen highly paid consultants plagiarise other reports I've edited and (gasp) wikipedia!

Even though I have made my living as an editor for going on five decades, even though I have edited so many books that I stopped keeping track of them in the 1990s, even though I am as careful a writer as I can possibly be, I would never publish a book of my own without having it professionally edited.

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Rick Santelli joined CNBC Business News as an on - air editor in 1999, reporting live from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Isaacson, a former head of CNN and managing editor of Time, has reported the heck out of his subject, and Steve Jobs is enormously valuable as a record of the man's life and interactions.

As the editor of Cracked put it in a very perceptive essay: «If you don't live in one of these small towns, you can't understand the hopelessness.

He joined CNBC in May 2012 as a reporter and editor and is host of «Secret Lives of the Super Rich.»

Nobody has a Gross Negotiation Product figure that totals up the aggregate costs of all this instruction and tip - giving, but as John Baker, editor of The Negotiator Magazine, observes, «There are a lot of people who are making their living that way.»

That's because as a tech editor I'm constantly pitched products, services, and gadgets that I'm promised will be life changing or the next big thing.

Rick Santelli joined CNBC as on - air editor in June 1999, reporting live from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

A feature on work - life integration — as opposed to the impossible ideal of work - life balance — carries the byline of Melissa Wall, the founding editor of Newsweek's iPad edition.

After dropping out of a PhD program at Duke University to, in his own words «pursue a life of thought - crime,» Spencer worked as an editor at a variety of right - leaning publications including Taki's Magazine, American Conservative, and the National Review, and was fired from the latter two for his extreme and racist views.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

The PayPal co-founder and serial technology entrepreneur was interviewed in Austin, Texas, today at a packed SXSW Interactive keynote session by former longtime Wired magazine editor - in - chief Chris Anderson, who described Musk's life as «insane.»

As Senior Editor for International Living for nearly 16 years now, Suzan has traveled extensively in Latin America, searching for the world's best and most affordable lifestyle opportunities.

I live and work in Los Angeles as a network television editor (The Real World, RuPaul's Drag Race, Epic Meal Time — and I have a background in documentary filmmaking and music videos (University of Southern California Cinema - Television degree).

While thinking about what to write, I suddenly had a moment of clarity as I stomped the snowy pavements of NYC, I want to dedicate my editor's letter to the pages I'm reading because they sum up in the most simple and logical way why we as a generation are mentally suffering more than ever before and how life could be infinitely more fun with a small mindset shift.

Editor's note: This article is a «living document» that will be edited and updated as new mortgage - rate forecasts and data become available over the coming months.

As International Living's Panama Editor, she writes about Panama's beaches, islands, mountains, and countryside.

For nearly a decade, she served as a senior editor and radio host at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

C. Christopher Smith lives and writes as part of the Englewood Christian Church community on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis, where he is the Senior Editor of The Englewood Review of Books.

In my day job as the editor of The Englewood Review of Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform...

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story ran last year, as part of a series about the faith lives of the leading Republican presidential candidates.

In my day job as the editor of The Englewood Review of Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform us, reforming the ways that we think, talk about and live within this wondrous web of life that is God's creation.

In My Time: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, Abigail Trafford, former health editor and now a columnist for the Washington Post, points out that Americans are enjoying a longer health span as well as lifespan.

This quiet but compulsively readable column is about the spiritual life, written from the point of view of a working Parish Priest; it is, for me, the most unmissable regular contribution to the Catholic Press (I have an interest to declare here: it was I who in my days as editor of The Catholic Herald installed it as a weekly event).

Elizabeth Scalia is the author of Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols of Everyday Life and the managing editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos.com, where she blogs as The Anchoress.

As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»

Articulated by editor Jim Wallis in his book Agenda for Biblical People, as well as by editorials and articles by the staff, the Sojourners position reflects a Christian radicalism steeped in the Anabaptist tradition - one committed to rigorous discipleship, corporate life - style, and societal critique.

It has always been an insoluble problem for harmonists and writers of the life of Christ; and it is clear from the way Matthew — and perhaps John — and even Luke used the materials of the Gospel of Mark that they, who were its earliest editors and commentators, did not view the Marcan order as chronological or final and unalterable — save in one section, the passion narrative, though even here they did not hesitate to make some changes in order.

The Reformed Journal editor recognizes that suffering will be the necessary style of the Christian's entire life.38 Just as God entered fully into history in the Christ - event, taking upon himself its pain, so Christians must commit themselves to the human situation, assuming its misery.

Editor's note: David Van Biema, the chief religion writer at Time Magazine for ten years, is author of the illustrated biography «Mother Teresa: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint,» now being reissued and made available in Spanish as «La Madre Teresa: La Vida y las obras de una santa moderna.»

While the latter have no «business as usual» stamp, since the war colored almost everything those years, one senses that the editors were saying: life must go on; faith needs nurture; the subtleties of life matter; there are trenches in America as well as on the front lines.

Adler apologized and resigned as editor, but some see the episode as the latest example of an increase in divisive, over-the-top rhetoric within American Jewish communal life, revolving largely around the hot - button issue of Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians.

Editor: So much for doom and gloom, where do you see signs of hope for family life as you survey our Western culture?

Neither of us, I think, was quite certain just what contribution I might be making to the enterprise, but I was a reasonably educated and reasonably pious» though hardly properly observant» Jew who had worked for many years as an editor, and since Religion and Public Life had recently begun publishing First Things, I suppose it was thought that I was qualified to add some, albeit hardly scholarly, expertise to the enterprise.

In 1837, the first editor of Washington's Collected Works wrote: «If a man who spoke, wrote, and acted as a Christian through a long life, who gave numerous proofs of his believing himself to be such, and who was never known to say, write, or do a thing contrary to his professions, if such a man is not to be ranked among the believers of Christianity, it would be impossible to establish the point by any train of reasoning.»

Were the editors not impressed by the videotaped dignity, calm, and downright cheerfulness of the Santa Fe suicides who were, as the jargon has it, freely choosing to take ultimate charge of their own lives?

As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no higher truth than «the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

As late as 1959 (after eighteen years in the abbey), Merton was reading books like James Thurber's The Years with Ross, an account of life under Harold Ross, editor of the New YorkeAs late as 1959 (after eighteen years in the abbey), Merton was reading books like James Thurber's The Years with Ross, an account of life under Harold Ross, editor of the New Yorkeas 1959 (after eighteen years in the abbey), Merton was reading books like James Thurber's The Years with Ross, an account of life under Harold Ross, editor of the New Yorker.

Editor James Taylor of the United Church of Canada suggests that today the church is in a new Reformation, the significance of which for the life of the church may be as dramatic as the Reformation in the sixteenth century, which derived much of its monentum from the development of print.

Jim Gittings is a veteran church journalist who lived in Asia for a number of years, served as an editor of Ad, owned and published Seventh Angel, and is now based in Greenville, S. C. where he serves as communications director of ALM International.

As Christianity Today editor Mark Galli has argued, evangelicals arrived at their current stand on life issues through a combination of factors, including biblical interpretation, moral accounting and political calculus.

I'm pleased and proud to announce that Emily DeWitt, who is my brother Rick's daughter, has been appointed as food editor of the SuperSite and ScovieAwards.com She is only our third food editor, following Nancy Gerlach, who retired and lives in Yucatán, and Gwyneth Doland, who went over to the darkside — politics.

With six years of membership, including four as a writer and editor, Lucas almost certainly has less of a life than any of the other obsessive Clippers fans that he writes for.

He has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine and Harper's Magazine and as a reporter and producer for the public - radio program «This American Life.»

IN THIS ISSUE THE INTERVIEW Confluence editor Chip Romer interviews Betty Staley on celebrating her 50th Anniversary as a Waldorf educator: A Life Devoted to Waldorf Education TEACHINGS Jack Petrash offers a teacher's reflection on Election... more

THE INTERVIEW Confluence editor Chip Romer interviews Betty Staley on celebrating her 50th Anniversary as a Waldorf educator: A Life Devoted to Waldorf Education