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The SME and Me: Navigating an Edit with a Subject Matter Expert

Thursday May 7, 2026

The first publishing company I worked for had an in-house newsletter that included photos from sales meetings, recipes, updates on the company baseball team (the Weasels) and random pieces on diverse topics. One of my contributions was titled something like, “How to impress at cocktail parties.” (Unfortunately, I can’t find the original; I hope the […]

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Christina Petrides

Breaking into a new market sector as an editor

Thursday May 21, 2026

If you thought that only newbie editors find it difficult to move into a new-to-them market sector, take it from me: it is not true! Even seasoned editors feel that familiar dread when it comes to putting themselves out there in a market they’re not well established in. And it’s got nothing to do with […]

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DISPATCHES from an Editorial Intern

Tuesday March 5, 2013

Outside Looking In I decided I wanted to go into publishing in early 2011. It was a good solution to my problems at the time. Problems like why I didn’t want to fill out arduous grad school applications and why I wouldn’t apply to law school (as members of my family fervently hoped I would). […]

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New Tax Guidelines for Self-Employed BC Editors

Tuesday March 26, 2013

On April 1, 2013, the BC government will repeal the HST and return to the former GST + PST regime. What does that mean for self-employed editors? We’ve dug into the matter and are happy to share what we’ve found. Please note that these are our personal comments, not those of EAC. We are not […]

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What Do Editors Need To Know Now?

Tuesday May 7, 2013

The volatile state of the publishing industry today—and, by extension, the editing profession—can sometimes feel pretty daunting. Digital disruptions to the book, magazine, and newspaper segments of the industry in particular are like an ongoing series of earthquake tremors beneath what previously felt like steady ground. Technological innovations have brought new forms of reading and […]

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EAC The Editors Weekly blog – Need to Know Now – Okerlund

“The volatile state of the publishing industry today—and by extension, the editing profession—can sometimes feel pretty daunting…” Editor Lana Okerlund writes about the challenges facing editors in the digital age, in “What Do Editors Need to Know Now?” for the EAC/ACR blog, The Editors’ Weekly, May 7, 2013.

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Continuity in Film and Fiction

Tuesday June 4, 2013

Movies are usually shot in location order, not narrative order, which makes physical continuity important. Last week I was watching my favourite crime show, and the female lead wore a blue shirt in an interrogation scene. The camera caught the cop’s dialogue in close up, then cut to a close up of the bad guy, […]

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THE INNER EDITOR: The Useful Conversation

Wednesday July 24, 2013

The desciptive-prescriptive war is over. Long live the conversation. In the past month, my colleagues have been chatting about an article called Descriptivism vs Prescriptivism: War is Over (if you want it). Its heading perpetuates a flawed premise, but the author offers good evidence that prescriptive and descriptive can both be thoughtful approaches to the […]

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Literally is not the only word in this crazy language of ours that has opposing definitions. But it’s the topic of this blog post, “English Can Be So Two-faced,” by Karen Virag. The Editors’ Weekly, EAC, Sept. 17, 2013.

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Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting. For her 7th article in the Dispatches series, author Kate Icely explores how new editors find work, and life, after internship.

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