Editor facts for kids

An editor is a person who makes changes to documents. More specifically the word editor can mean:

a person who edits texts; see copy editing. A newspaper or magazine editor is a person who prepares articles for printing and sometimes chooses which articles to put in the newspaper. The main editor of a newspaper or magazine is called the "editor-in chief".
a Wikipedia user who makes changes (also called "edits") to pages ("articles")
text editor, an application program for editing an electronic text or media document
one who, or that which, edits photos
- film editor, a person who edits movies
- a machine for movie film or video editing

Images for kids

"Quarters of the news editor", one of a group of four photos in the 1900 brochure Seattle and the Orient, which was collectively captioned "The Seattle Daily Times—Editorial Department".
Editors work on producing an issue of Bild, West Berlin, 1977. Previous front pages are affixed to the wall behind them.
Page 1 Editor Jack Breibart in the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom, 1994.