Glossy Talk: Editor shares crafty tips at uni forum

Glossy Talk: Editor shares crafty tips at uni forum

The editor-in-chief of the Weekly, speaking at a Sydney Ideas forum at the University of Sydney on the importance of the editor in the digital age, said the "extraordinary pressure on editors" of magazines and newspapers to chase readers had encouraged the use of "increasingly loud headlines (and) tricky executions, or in some cases completely misleading TV promos, or cover lines".

- Caroline Overington, reporting on Sydney University's 'Editors on the Future of Editing' Ideas Forum, at which The Australian Women's Weekly editor Helen McCabe shared her 'Seven Threats to the Craft of Editing', for The Australian (a GWAS must-read!).

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