Cincinnati Editors

Editing is a relatively broad term and can be applied to language, graphics, sound, and film. To become an editor, you need to have completed high school. While in high school, it's recommended you get involved with your high school newspaper. It helps you to learn interviewing skills and how to find sources early on. It also helps you to figure out if this is the path you want to take while in college.

Editing jobs usually require a bachelors degree in English, journalism, communication, or radio/television. You need to try to get an internship while you are in college or work for college publications, whether it be newspapers, radio stations or TV stations. This not only helps you gain experience, but it looks good for possible employers when you have gotten involved outside your schoolwork. It gives you hands-on experience and teaches you things you cannot learn in the classroom. It also helps you beef up your portfolio. Once you get an internship, you now have your foot in the door for an actual job as an editor. There are several different career opportunities for Cincinnati editors.

Newspaper

If you live in Cincinnati, you may want to look at one of the newspapers located here. We have a major daily newspaper, the Cincinnati Enquirer located downtown. It is published by Gannett and is the highest print-circulation newspaper in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. The Enquirer also publishes all its information online. This is why it is crucial for all editors nowadays to have the diverse knowledge of multimedia publishing. Instead of being able to publish print news, editors need to be able to work on the Web.

The Enquirer has been in publication since 1841 and was the first paper to publish a Sunday edition in the United States in 1848. The Cincinnati Enquirer also puts out the Community Press, The Community Recorder, CiN Weekly, Design Magazine, Inspire Magazine, and OurTown magazine. These are all the print publications, and it also has 50 Websites as well.

Video

For video editing, you need to be proficient in Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver, basic HTML, Photoshop, and know how to use both Mac and PC computers. You have to be familiar with perspective, consistency, camera equipment and how things are shot and focused.

As a video editor, you may be required to both record and edit the film. Video editing requires you to take the film that has been recorded and rearrange it, cut it, add graphics, text, music or whatever you need to do to make it better, concise and make sense. It maintains the chronology and professionalism of the piece. You can choose whether a piece needs to be reshot, voiceovers, and placement of content within the film. You can remove outtakes or mistakes that do not belong and keep the pieces that do. All of this is done on a computer, like the one in the photo above. You will use several computer screens and go between them all to perform your work.

Cincinnati television stations include channels 5, 9, 12, and 19. For Channel 9, you can obtain an internship in which you would cut video for the internet. You may also start out as a cameraman and transition into graphics. You also may be able to find freelance work in Cincinnati as a video editor.

Cincinnati editors salaries will vary on the chosen field. Here is a list of some of the averages here in Cincinnati:

• Assignment editor - $30,000
• Broadcast managing editor - $83,100
• Business editor - $38,600
• Print communications editor - $51,600
• Executive editor - $41,600
• Public relations editor - $53,000