Editors have broader responsibilites than a reporter to a news organization. They must take charge of various aspects of the news operation that reporters do not have to consider.

-- Editors must take a broader view of their job, the news organization and the entire profession

-- Editors must know the organization

• purpose
• structure
• processes
• history and tradition

-- Editors must develop skills in handling people and resources

• budgets
• helping people achieve success
• allocating resources

-- Editors must be masters of the language

• style, especially style
• grammar (sometimes they must arbitrate)
• understand the importance of language precision

-- Editors must understand the forms of information presentation that their medium demands

• inverted pyramid story structure
• other forms of news presentation
• graphic forms
• photo editing
• language of design