Editor Resume Template
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Jonathan Thompson
Senior Editor · Digital News & Features
Los Angeles, CA · (213) 555-9703
jonathan.thompson@email.com · linkedin.com/in/jonathanthompson
Certificate in Editing
Poynter ACES
Certificates
Copyediting Certificate
UC San Diego Extended Studies
Editorial Skills
Line editing & copyediting
AP & Chicago style
Fact-checking
Headline & SEO writing
Story assignment
Newsletter strategy
Freelancer management
Publishing Tools
WordPressAdobe InDesignGoogle Analytics 4ChartbeatAirtable
Education
B.A. in Journalism
2015
University of Southern California
Profile
Editor with 10 years in newsrooms and digital magazines, now running a 9-writer features desk that publishes 60+ stories a month. Grew subscriber-driven traffic 38% in two years and cut correction rates by half with a new fact-check workflow.
Editorial Experience
Senior Editor, Features
2021 – Present
Pacific Coast Media Group, Los Angeles, CA
- Edit 15–20 features and news stories a week for a digital outlet with 4M monthly readers.
- Manage a desk of 9 staff writers and 20 freelancers, from pitch and assignment to publication.
- Built a two-step fact-check workflow that cut published corrections from 3.1 to 1.4 per 100 stories.
- Grew subscriber-driven traffic 38% by packaging series around local housing and transit coverage.
- Write headlines, deks and SEO metadata in WordPress and enforce AP style plus the house stylebook.
Editor
2017 – 2021
Westside Weekly, Santa Monica, CA
- Line-edited and copyedited 25 print and web stories a week for a 45,000-circulation weekly.
- Planned the budget for each issue and allocated space for text, photos and ads in InDesign.
- Verified names, dates and statistics against public records and primary sources before print.
- Launched a morning newsletter that reached 22,000 subscribers with a 41% open rate.
Editorial Assistant
2015 – 2017
Angeleno Press Books, Pasadena, CA
- Proofread galleys for 18 nonfiction titles a year and tracked edits against Chicago style.
- Screened 40+ unsolicited proposals a month and wrote reader reports for acquiring editors.
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Skills to list
- Copyediting
- AP/Chicago Style
- Content Strategy
- Manuscript Review
- Fact-Checking
- CMS Platforms
- Team Coordination
- Proofreading
Software and tools
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Adobe Photoshop
- WordPress
- Adobe After Effects
- Cascading style sheets CSS
- Adobe InDesign
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Creative Cloud software
- Content management systems CMS
Duties to describe on a editor resume
- Verified facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
- Wrote text, such as headlines, stories, articles, editorials, or newsletters.
- Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
- Prepared, rewrote and edited copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.
- Developed story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.
- Allocated print space for story text, photos, and illustrations according to space parameters and copy significance, using knowledge of layout principles.
Titles along the way
- Editorial Assistant
- Editor
- Senior/Managing Editor
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