editor in chief
- noun
- /ˈɛdɪtər ɪn tʃiːf/
- Literature
- Dan Wakeford is the editor in chief of People magazine, responsible for its editorial direction.
- serve as editor-in-chief
- former editor-in-chief
- editor-in-chief of a journal
But we begin today with Rich Lowry, editor in chief of National Review.
- But we begin today with Rich Lowry, editor in chief of National Review.
- And now here's the editor in chief of West Magazine's Sarah Moonves.
- You started the Journal of Machine Learning Research and served as its editor in chief.
- And he's also the editor in chief, as luck would have it, of the journal Intelligence.
- I hooked up with John Cook and he was the editor in chief of Gawker at that point, and he was willing to do it.
- You're thinking if they should shut down the site or if they should sack the editor in chief or make a journalist lose his job.
- Sarah Nader is the editor in chief of the Zan Times and a news source in exile run by women.
- Now Bernstein is also a pathological liar like Woodward and Ben Bradley, the the editor in chief of The Washington Post.
- So you're a mother, you're an editor in chief, you're a wife.
- So this is from Tom's Hardware, the editor in chief.
Examples
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Sarah Nader is the editor in chief of the Zan Times and a news source in exile run by women.
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I'm the editor in chief of the Crazy Max Chronicle.
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But just to kick us off, oh, editor in chief, can you tell us what we have learned and why it's important?
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We need an editor in chief.
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I want you to meet our editor in chief.
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But we begin today with Rich Lowry, editor in chief of National Review.
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So Sue Denser, who starts our session, is the editor in chief of Health Affairs, as many of you know.
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Please welcome the esteemed editor in chief of People magazine, Dan Wakeford.
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While at Stanford, he served as Editor in Chief of Sequoia, the Stanford student run literary journal.
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Mike Pitts is an archaeologist, editor in chief of British Archaeology, and author of Hengeworld.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
A person who chooses stories and manages a newspaper
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense is directly derivable from combining 'editor' (a person who edits) with 'chief' (a leader) linked by 'in' to indicate status, so it denotes the top editorial leader. This composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'editor en jefe', French 'rédacteur en chef') and follows regular noun + status patterns, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Editor in chief comes from combining editor (the person who prepares and checks the words) and chief (the leader). Imagine one person at the top of a newspaper office checking every story before it is published — that's why the title means 'the person with the last say' about what appears in a paper or magazine.