• August 01, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? Non-Operational Media Editor 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? My job is to check journalistic texts, edit them and send them to the next link for verification. Often you have to write yourself, because some novice authors may not immediately join the stream. And you still need to hand over the material planned for the issue on time! .. So it turns out that I write it myself, I check it myself. 3. What education is required to get your position? Higher education, ideally - the faculty of journalism. But graduates of the faculties of philology, and just people with other professions who perfectly know the language and have a good command of the style, are also taken as editors. 4. Describe your working day. Non-standardized. The start depends on whether all the necessary materials were handed in yesterday. If not, then sometimes you have to come both at 6.00 and at 7.00. If everything is on schedule, then I come at 9.00. In the morning - a planning meeting, discussing plans for the day. Lunch - as it turns out, we usually eat between times, right at the desktop. However, there are good days when there is a free hour, and you can walk to the store and eat in the park. In the evening we sit at work all the way until the texts arrive for layout. Only then can you go home with peace of mind. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day outside, or in the office with a cup of coffee)? Pretty comfortable. In a warm office, where there is a microwave oven, a cooler for hot and cold water, a toilet, a comfortable sofa in the lobby. True, sometimes there is no time to use all these amenities, but these are already details .... 6. What do you like most about your job? The ability to constantly keep the brain in a state of combat readiness. Simply put, I am not in danger of withering from a lack of new knowledge and sensations. Journalism implies a constant series of events, meeting hundreds of new people, gaining new skills. 7. What do you dislike most about your job? What I don't like is that I often can't plan my time. More precisely, I build plans, but because of the work they instantly collapse. I agree to go to the cinema with my friends, then some text needs to be changed, and for the hundredth time they have to go without me. It's uncomfortable and embarrassing. 8. If it's not a secret, what is your salary level (is it enough to write whether you are satisfied or not)? I would like more. But since the work of an editor is considered more relaxed than, say, a reporter from dangerous places, they pay little for it. 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? Journalists of different profiles. Correspondents of news departments, department of essays, culture, medicine, sports…. There are also photography designers, photographers, typesetters, proofreaders and literary editors. 10. What human qualities do you think are most important in your business? Calmness and resourcefulness. The first is important so as not to be nervous when the text needs to be rewritten for the tenth time, and the boss at the same time demands to urgently hand it over. And the second helps in cases where you need to be accepted very quickly.some solution. 11. Work gives me additional opportunities (everything that work gives you except money, from self-expression and communication with interesting people to the opportunity to visit different countries). The most important thing is, of course, communication. No profession in the world provides such a unique opportunity for communication as journalism. Every day you can meet new people. Despite the fact that the editor mostly checks other people's texts, he often has to go on his own assignments and interviews. Another plus of my work is the ability to quickly recognize bad and good texts. With experience in this, you so fill your hand that you can instantly assess how promising this or that material is. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? Five. Because I really love this job, despite all its difficulties. 13. Why did you choose this job? Because since childhood I love to write. It all started with school essays written for 5 plus, and away we go .... 14. What are the opportunities for your career development? An editor can become a deputy editor-in-chief or a chief editor. But it is not so easy, and the duties are completely different, a huge responsibility. 15. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? I would like to mention how the editor's workplace looks like. Usually this is a room resembling a large anthill: tables, chairs, cabinets, flowers, some kind of shelves .... There is a lot of everything, you have to constantly maneuver between furniture and people. By the way, there are too many people for such an area. But these are ordinary journalistic everyday life. Only in such an environment is it possible to constantly be in contact, consult, submit ideas and plan something together without getting up from your own chairs. 16. Your page in social networks. I'm on facebook 0