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English translation: editor and publisher

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Spanish term or phrase:	director y editor
English translation:	editor and publisher
Entered by:	silviafm

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08:59 Mar 31, 2004

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Journalism / Media

Spanish term or phrase: director y editor (in context)

I am confused because of the following three phrases in a CV:

-Director Literario
-Director de la editorial X
-Director y editor de X

I translated this as:

-Literary Editor
-Editor of the publishing house X

But then I saw he has also been "director y editor" of a series of magazines.. now I am stuck! Would this be "publisher and editor of" or simply "editor", or..

Help! Thanks! Hanna

SpanTran KudoZ activity Questions: 333 (none open) (12 closed without grading) Answers: 72
Local time: 10:05

editor and publisher

Explanation:
Editor: "director" (de una publicación); En inglés se llama "editor" de un periódico a la persona que en español denominamos "director". La palabra española "editor", que significa "persona que saca a la luz pública una obra, ajena por lo regular, valiéndose de la imprenta o de otra arte gráfico para multiplicar los ejemplares" (Dic. Acad.), se traduce al inglés por "publisher".
Los avisos insertados en una publicación que vienen firmados en en inglés por The Editor irían firmados en español por La Redacción. DICCIONARIO DE DIFICULTADES DEL INGLÉS - Alfonso Torrents Dels Prats, Editorial Juventud.

Selected response from:

silviafm
Argentina
Local time: 06:05

Grading comment

This is what I put in the end, thanks for easing my conscience, as I have been in doubt ever since! ;-) hanna
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +2

editor and publisher

silviafm

Manager and editor-in-chief

María T. Vargas

manager and copy editor

Penelope Ausejo

Publishing director

Leticia Rubi

managing editor

Rowan Morrell

Editor-in-Chief

mbc

Answers

17 mins confidence:

Editor-in-Chief

Explanation:
mi idea

mbc
Native speaker of:

English

20 mins confidence:

managing editor

Explanation:
I think that "director" and "editor" mean much the same thing, but "managing editor" would emphasise the person's seniority (although Editor-in-Chief would also do the trick in this instance - up to you which you prefer).

Rowan Morrell
Local time: 22:05
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

35 mins confidence:

Publishing director

Explanation:
En este caso, creo que podríamos decir director editorial, que en inglés sería publishing director.

Leticia Rubi
Local time: 09:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

44 mins confidence:

manager and copy editor

Explanation:
Maybe it could be this. He was the manager of the project/magazine or whatever that "x" is and also the copy editor.

The manager as in the person who runs the project/business/...
The copy editor as in someone that corrects and prepares the documents/articles, etc.

This is what I would understand... Hope it helps :)

Penelope Ausejo
Spain
Local time: 10:05
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

2 hrs confidence:

Manager and editor-in-chief

Explanation:
I worked with a British publishing company in Marbella for three years and the "director" was called Manager and the "jefe de redacción" which I feel is the right word in Spanish for "editor" in English, since "editor" in Spanish is actually "publisher" was called "editor-in-chief".

María T. Vargas
Spain
Local time: 10:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

editor and publisher

silviafm
Argentina
Local time: 06:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

Grading comment

This is what I put in the end, thanks for easing my conscience, as I have been in doubt ever since! ;-) hanna

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