NC State Student Media

Advice to editors

  • Challenge the writing, not the writer.
  • Include writers – ask what stories they think we should be writing and how they should be written.
  • Keep office hours. Stick to them.
  • Collaborate during assignment and editing process. Make them partners in creating the paper.
  • Make deadlines earlier if time is a problem. Don’t force articles into the paper at the last minute.
  • Coach before deadline, fix on deadline.
  • Get everybody moving in the same direction, being on the same team, striving for the same goals.
  • Become more than just an e-mail address. Make face time.
  • Editor should be a builder, not a demolitions expert.
  • There’s a big difference between the editor who tells reporters “You can do better than this” with actions than the one who says “I can do better than you.”