editor-in-chief

Typical responsibilities of editors-in-chief include:{{cite web |title=Job Responsibilities of an Editor-in-chief You Were Totally Unaware Of |date=Feb 14, 2018 |work=CareerStint |access-date=2019-01-06|url=https://careerstint.com/editor-in-chief-responsibilities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106072828/https://careerstint.com/editor-in-chief-responsibilities |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-01-06 }}

• Ensuring that content is journalistically objective
• Fact-checking, spelling, grammar, writing style, page design and photos
• Rejecting writing that appears to be plagiarized, ghostwritten, published elsewhere, or of little interest to readers
• Evaluating and editing content
• Contributing editorial pieces
• Motivating and developing editorial staff
• Ensuring the final draft is complete
• Handling reader complaints and taking responsibility for issues after publication
• For books and journals, cross-checking citations and examining references
• Working to advance the commercial success of the publication
• Position may involve recruiting, hiring and firing staff

The term is also applied to academic journals, where the editor-in-chief gives the ultimate decision whether a submitted manuscript will be published. This decision is made by the editor-in-chief after seeking input from reviewers selected on the basis of relevant expertise. For larger journals, the decision is often upon the recommendation of one of several associate editors who each have responsibility for a fraction of the submitted manuscripts.{{Citation |last=Nestel |first=Debra |title=Peer Review for Publications: A Guide for Reviewers |date=2019 |work=Healthcare Simulation Research: A Practical Guide |pages=325–329 |editor-last=Nestel |editor-first=Debra |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26837-4_43 |access-date=2024-10-07 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-26837-4_43 |isbn=978-3-030-26837-4 |last2=Kunkler |first2=Kevin |last3=Scerbo |first3=Mark W. |editor2-last=Hui |editor2-first=Joshua |editor3-last=Kunkler |editor3-first=Kevin |editor4-last=Scerbo |editor4-first=Mark W.}}{{Cite web |title=The Peer Review Process {{!}} Wiley |url=https://authorservices.wiley.com/Reviewers/journal-reviewers/what-is-peer-review/the-peer-review-process.html |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=authorservices.wiley.com}}

• Journalism ethics and standards
• Journalistic interventionism
• Value judgment

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{{cite book | last=Young | first=M. | title=Death, Sex & Money: Life Inside a Newspaper | publisher=Melbourne University Press | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-522-85344-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4TJRabjLnQC&pg=PA46 | access-date=July 17, 2017 | pages=46–51}}

{{cite book | last=Niblock | first=S. | title=Inside Journalism | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2003 | isbn=978-1-135-37256-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XqOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA62 | access-date=July 17, 2017 | pages=62–63}}

{{cite book | last=Smith | first=H. F. | title=Springboard to Journalism | publisher=Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association of Columbia University | year=1996 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIvsAAAAMAAJ | access-date=July 17, 2017 | page=6| isbn=9780916082031 }}

{{cite book | last=Nesvisky | first=M. | title=Covering Your Campus: A Guide for Student Newspapers | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-7425-5389-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1nMMBh_4-gC&pg=PA35 | access-date=July 17, 2017 | page=35}}

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• {{cite book|title=Making a Newspaper|author=John La Porte Given|chapter=The Editor-in-Chief|pages=30–35|location=New York|date=1907|publisher=H. Holt and Company}}
• {{cite book|title=The Handbook of Journalism: All about Newspaper Work: Facts and Information|author=Nathaniel Clark Fowler|chapter=The Editor-in-Chief|location=New York|date=1913|publisher=Sully and Kleinteich}}
• The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (3rd edn 1996, edited by R. W. Burchfield); Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage (2009).

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