ABSTRACT
Editors still serve as gatekeepers at newspapers and magazines, and in radio and television newsrooms. Editors still choose what to put on the front page of news websites. Editors still edit newsletters, corporate magazines and even advertisements. Editors are faced with a changing environment. In today's changing media environment, these roles must be earned. Traditional media are finding new ways to compete. The buzzword in the media industry these days is convergence, and traditional media are exploring many forms of it. The changing nature of news is one reason the role of the editor will remain important, even as society embraces nontraditional media. Editing jobs are so plentiful, in fact, that companies are often willing to pay editors a higher salary than writers. Some of the nation's largest newspapers pay a differential to copy editors as a means of enticing journalists to work at the copy desk.
