Skills wrote and editing creative to like the close relative, was like this it was said by Bambang Trim, a book practitioner in Indonesia. According to him Creative Editing more wide and complex through to be related to content and context.
Creative Editing will bring his interested person in so many competences that must be owned. Bowles in his book of Creative Editing quoted survey copyeditor that was carried out by Ann E. Auman from University of Hawaii and Besty Cook Alderman from University of Tennessee in the network of the national newspaper. Results survey this has been presented in the national meeting of the journalist and the academic of mass communication in Washington DC. Below the ranking of the knowledge territory and skills a person copyeditor that was hoped for:
1. grammar, spelling, and punctuation
2. accuracy and fact checking
3. editing wordiness, clarity and sentence structure
4. general knowledge
5. story structure, organization and content
6. ethical concerns
7. headline writing
8. analytical/critical thinking
9. associated press style and usage
10. cutline writing
11. news judgement and story selection
12. legal concerns
13. understanding numbers
14. mechanics of computer editing
15. layout and page design
16. photo and art editing and sizing
17. newsroom procedure and organization
18. working with wire copy
19. specific section editing (e.g. Sports)
20. coaching/working with reporters
21. software for layout/pagination
22. typography
23. information graphics/visual editing
24. use of color
25. software for graphics/computer photo editing
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