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business editor

business editor

4 3.0
An editor at a newspaper or magazine who manages business news
  • noun
  • Literature
translation icon : editor de negocios
  • Jessica Leber, Business Editor
  • a senior business editor
  • a deputy business editor
  • an assistant business editor

Examples

  • Stephen Battaglio is the business editor of TV Guide magazine.

    Academic text (2010)
  • She has been the paper's business editor.

    Blog text (3)
  • I'm MIT Technology Review's business editor, working from our San Francisco office.

    Blog text (27)
  • Each week, Sunday Business Editor Henry Unger has a candid conversation called "5 Questions for the Boss" with a top executive.

    Blog text (24)
  • Will be willing to share his or her expertise with the industry and agree to an on-site visit by a Contracting Business editor.

    Blog text (7)
  • Each week, Sunday Business Editor Henry Unger has a candid conversation called "5 Questions for the Boss" with a top executive in Georgia.

    Blog text (23)
  • The report is published by David Jensen, who worked for 22 years for The Sacramento Bee in a variety of editing positions, including executive business editor and special projects editor.

    Blog text (5)
  • Already, they've added a daily business section, hired a new business editor, hired an award-winning full-time restaurant reviewer, and made numerous other changes that are going to make our paper even better than it was before.

    Blog text (2)
  • The way that every business editor and tech editor in the world seems to have put out a story recently about how Real Steve should come clean about his health, without offering the merest hint of evidence that Real Steve is ill beyond his gaunt appearance at the keynote, confirms the feeling that journos are cowardly, sheep-like, and lazy.

    Blog text (3)
  • Stephen Battaglio is the business editor of TV Guide magazine.

How Senior

editor in chief
  • Literature
49 4.4
business editor
  • Literature
4 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

business + editor

The meaning 'editor responsible for business news' is directly and transparently derived from 'business' (the field or subject matter) modifying 'editor' (a person who makes editorial decisions). This noun–noun compound pattern for job titles is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Business editor comes from the simple idea of an editor who looks after the paper's business pages, the stories about companies and money. So the name shows that this person is 'responsible for business news'.