0 a person who checks and makes changes to texts, especially for a newspaper, in order to prepare them to be published: --
1 someone whose job is to check and correct writing, especially articles in a newspaper, before it is printed --
No sub-editor saw fit to clothe the quote in quotation marks or even to introduce a hint of qualification.
The proper individual is undoubtedly the editor or the sub-editor, the man who controls the paper, and not the working journalist.
It may be journalism, but sometimes the cruel facts of truth escape even the vigilant pen of the sub-editor.
That was not dreamed up by a sub-editor.
There were so many that the poor sub-editor must have been suffering from political sunstroke.
The senior sub-editor decided that the response was more grammatically put by using the singular.
There is a conjunction of author, editor, sub-editor, layout man, author of the headline, typographical artist, etc.
The representative journalist is a reporter on a country newspaper or a sub-editor.
