What is Managing editor?
A '''Managing Editor''' is a [[wikt:senior|senior]] member of a [[Mass media]] management team. In [[Radio network|radio]] and [[television network]]s the managing editor is the top [[Manager|executive]].<ref name=Mogel103>Leonard Mogel, ''Creating Your Career in Communications and Entertainment'' (Sewlikey, PA: GATFPress, 1998), p. 103</ref> At local stations, a managing editor works directly under the [[news director]].<ref name=Mogel103/> In [[newspaper]] publishing the Managing Editor (ME) reports directly to the [[editor-in-chief]]. In most [[organization]]s the managing editor can hire, fire, or promote staff members. In network [[broadcasting]], the job of managing editor may be combined with other jobs. For example on [[NBC]], [[Tom Brokaw]] was both [[News presenter|anchor]] and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.<ref name=Mogel103/> At [[CNN]] [[Lou Dobbs]] was an anchor, managing editor and [[Vice president|executive vice president]].<ref name=Fox>{{cite web |url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/11/10/fox-business-hires-lou-dobbs/ |title=FOX Business Lands Lou Dobbs |author= |date=1 August 2011 |website= |publisher=FOX News Network, LLC |accessdate=16 February 2015 |archive-date=19 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319024145/http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/11/10/fox-business-hires-lou-dobbs/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> At the Fox News Channel, [[Brit Hume]] was an anchor and the Washington DC division's managing editor.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gough|first1=Paul|title=Fox News' Brit Hume leaving for family, religion|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/05/us-hume-idUSTRE4A454420081105|accessdate=12 December 2014|agency=Reuters|date=November 5, 2008|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924135837/http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/05/us-hume-idUSTRE4A454420081105|url-status=dead}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Journalism]] {{tv-stub}}