Word: subeditor
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...roster of literary awards to her long, unwieldy name. Born in suburban north London, McCaughrean has written for as long as she can remember. But it took a couple of false starts as a secretary and, disastrously, a schoolteacher before she settled into a 10-year stint as a subeditor on serial titles such as The Fisherman's Handbook and Great Composers. It was a no-nonsense school of writing that might demand a four-page story or a poem to accompany a leftover illustration - by lunchtime. McCaughrean calls it "the best job I ever had," and the discipline...
...Conrad) reminded Greene that he had been born at an unpropitious time. "We were," he wrote, "a generation brought up on adventure stories who had missed the enormous disillusionment of the First World War." At Oxford, he dabbled in writing and later drifted into newspaper work, eventually becoming a subeditor at the London Times...
Zingy is not necessarily the first adjective many of Murdoch's employees would pick to describe their boss. Industrious, yes. After graduating from Oxford in 1953, Murdoch worked as a subeditor on the London Daily Express in order to learn the newspaper trade. Ambitious, yes. Once he had revitalized his father's papers, he quickly bought a string of other Australian dailies, then eventually hopscotched to London in 1969, when he acquired the Sunday scandal sheet News of the World, and the U.S. in 1973, when he purchased both the San Antonio Express and News...
...flunked the first grade in his Brooklyn elementary school, was diagnosed a slow learner and never thought about making words his life's work until a high school football injury gave him a long stretch of hospital time for reading. After an uncomfortable journalistic debut as a subeditor on that now defunct "independent" Communist journal The New Masses, Rovere was hired as a writer by William Shawn, then The New Yorker's managing editor. A few years later Shawn and Harold Ross, the magazine's founding editor, assigned him to write about politics as if he were...
Thus did Esquire Founding Editor Arnold Gingrich (1903-76) once describe a certain garrulous subeditor who worked on the magazine during the highest of its haute-smartass days nearly two decades ago. Young Felker left Esquire in 1962, but became even more conspicuous in publishing and partying circles by founding New York in 1968, losing it this year in a bitter fight with Australian Sleaze-paper Publisher Rupert Murdoch (TIME, Jan. 17), and then scouring the globe for some new publishing adventure. Last week he found an old one: Esquire...