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1.3 What is the role of the editor ? ‘An editor is someone who knows exactly what he wants but isn’t quite sure.’  - The Observer, 1930s ‘An editor is someone who sorts the wheat from the chaff... and then prints the chaff’.’ - Adlai Stevenson What editors do Set deadlines Make decisions Change copy Chair meetings Publicize journal Set overall policy Deal with staff… An editor’s role Editor (n) A person at a newspaper or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish (Wikipedia) Editing (vb) Work an editor does to make formatting changes and improvements to a m