![]() Such lawsuits have followed the publication of works by Nabokov, Joyce, etc. The film industry and TV have used censors in their histories (and they were called censors, not redactors), but the print media has always been more protective of their First Amendment rights, and more willing to go to court to fight for them. This is true, but, again, you won't find censors at newspapers or magazines, at least censors as we commonly think of them-as those who expurgate offensive material. It has been pointed out that redactor sometimes means "censor" as well. The Bible was redacted, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights was redacted. This is often more the realm of scholars, who combine various texts from antiquity, for example, to create a new work. ![]() They do not generally combine previously published text to create new documents. Editors are required to hire writers, to define the parameters of what is written, and to improve the writing and put it into publishable form, to report and analyze news, to profile celebrities, to review new books and movies, etc. These media largely rely on original material. Often this is a method of collecting a series of writings on a similar theme and creating a definitive and coherent work." So, yes, in English, a redactor is a kind of editor, but this particular kind of editing is not much called for at magazines or newspapers. In English, "Redaction is a form of editing in which multiple source texts are combined (redacted) and altered slightly to make a single document. When I traveled in France and explained to people what I did, they called me a "redacteur," but I have never been called that in English. ![]() I have worked at dozens of magazines and newspapers, as well as for a number of book publishers, and at none have I ever heard of a redactor. ![]()
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