- a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication: She was offered a managing editor position at a small press.
- the supervisor or manager of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.: the sports editor of a newspaper.
- a person who edits, or selects and revises, material for publications, films, etc.: a video editor;the editor of an online journal.
- a device for viewing, cutting, and editing film or magnetic tape to make movies, audio recordings, etc.
- a program used for writing and revising code, data, or text: an XML editor.
- a person who edits written material for publication
- a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical
- a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical
- films
- a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a film
- a device for editing film, including a viewer and a splicer
- a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme
- a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer
