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A professional who plans layout of newspaper edition. Responsibilities include:
* Receives news copy, photographs, and dummy page layouts marked to indicate columns occupied by advertising.
* Confers with management and editorial staff members regarding placement of developing news stories.
* Determines placement of stories based on relative significance, available space, and knowledge of layout principles.
* Marks layout sheets to indicate position of each story and accompanying photographs.
* Approves proofs submitted by composing room.
* May write or revise headlines.
* May edit copy.
* May perform related editorial duties as required.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans layout of newspaper edition. Responsibilities include:
* Receives news copy, photographs, and dummy page layouts marked to indicate columns occupied by advertising.
* Confers with management and editorial staff members regarding placement of developing news stories.
* Determines placement of stories based on relative significance, available space, and knowledge of layout principles.
* Marks layout sheets to indicate position of each story and accompanying photographs.
* Approves proofs submitted by composing room.
* May write or revise headlines.
* May edit copy.
* May perform related editorial duties as required.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops, writes, and edits proposals for new radio or television programs. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews program proposals submitted by staff, station and independent producers, and other sources to determine proposal feasibility, based on knowledge of station's programming needs, policy and budgetary considerations, and potential underwriting (funding) sources.
* Edits proposals, or writes proposals for original program concepts, and submits proposals for review of programming, financial, and other departmental personnel.
* Participates in selection of researchers, consultants, producers, and on-air personalities to facilitate development of program ideas.
* Authorizes preparation of budget for final proposals.
* Maintains liaison between program production department and proposal originators to inform originators of status of accepted projects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops, writes, and edits proposals for new radio or television programs. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews program proposals submitted by staff, station and independent producers, and other sources to determine proposal feasibility, based on knowledge of station's programming needs, policy and budgetary considerations, and potential underwriting (funding) sources.
* Edits proposals, or writes proposals for original program concepts, and submits proposals for review of programming, financial, and other departmental personnel.
* Participates in selection of researchers, consultants, producers, and on-air personalities to facilitate development of program ideas.
* Authorizes preparation of budget for final proposals.
* Maintains liaison between program production department and proposal originators to inform originators of status of accepted projects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of radio or television news gathering staff. Responsibilities include:
* Maintains contact with outside news agencies, police and fire departments, and other news sources to obtain information regarding developing news items.
* Determines priority and assigns coverage to news units.
* Originates or approves ideas for news features.
* Confers with director, news and department heads to coordinate production activities.
* Reads and edits news copy to ensure that slanderous, libelous, and profane statements are avoided or deleted.
* Prepares rundown of news stories and assignment sheets, using computer.
* Communicates with reporters on assignments, using two-way radio.
* May direct or participate in writing and editing activities.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who selects and edits state, national, and international news items received by wire from press associations. Responsibilities include:
* Corrects errors of spelling and punctuation in telegraph copy.
* Deletes less important paragraphs, according to importance and amount of space available for story.
* Issues selected items to editor, news, with notations of desired length of story in accordance with predetermined space allotment.
* Monitors teleprinter machines for new leads on important news items received before press time of edition, and reserves space for copy on such items.
* May select news of local events of national or international interest, and prepare copy to be forwarded to central news associations by wire.
* May rewrite stories to include information of special interest to subscribers of publication.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who selects and edits state, national, and international news items received by wire from press associations. Responsibilities include:
* Corrects errors of spelling and punctuation in telegraph copy.
* Deletes less important paragraphs, according to importance and amount of space available for story.
* Issues selected items to editor, news, with notations of desired length of story in accordance with predetermined space allotment.
* Monitors teleprinter machines for new leads on important news items received before press time of edition, and reserves space for copy on such items.
* May select news of local events of national or international interest, and prepare copy to be forwarded to central news associations by wire.
* May rewrite stories to include information of special interest to subscribers of publication.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares written material for publication, performing any combination of following duties. Responsibilities include:
* Reads copy to detect errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
* Verifies facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
* Rewrites or modifies copy to conform to publication's style and editorial policy and marks copy for typesetter, using standard symbols to indicate how type should be set.
* Reads galley and page proofs to detect errors and indicates corrections, using standard proofreading symbols.
* May confer with authors regarding changes made to manuscript.
* May select and crop photographs and illustrative materials to conform to space and subject matter requirements.
* May prepare page layouts to position and space articles and illustrations.
* May write or rewrite headlines, captions, columns, articles, and stories according to publication requirements.
* May initiate or reply to correspondence regarding material published or being considered for publication.
* May read and evaluate submitted manuscripts and be designated Manuscript Reader.
* May be designated according to type of publication worked on as Copy Reader when working on newspaper; Copy Reader, Book when working on books.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares indices for books and other publications. Responsibilities include:
* Reads material to determine which items should be in index.
* Arranges topical or alphabetical list of index items, according to page or chapter, indicating location of item in text.
* Classifies items of topical interest, and inserts cross references in index to refer reader to related subjects appearing elsewhere in text.
* Directs activities of clerical staff engaged in typing index, filing subject-cards, and performing related duties.
* May prepare related items, such as glossaries, bibliographies, and explanatory footnotes, following literary style of manuscript author.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares indices for books and other publications. Responsibilities include:
* Reads material to determine which items should be in index.
* Arranges topical or alphabetical list of index items, according to page or chapter, indicating location of item in text.
* Classifies items of topical interest, and inserts cross references in index to refer reader to related subjects appearing elsewhere in text.
* Directs activities of clerical staff engaged in typing index, filing subject-cards, and performing related duties.
* May prepare related items, such as glossaries, bibliographies, and explanatory footnotes, following literary style of manuscript author.
Industry:Professional careers
