The document discusses the role and responsibilities of an editor-in-chief. An editor-in-chief has final responsibility for all operations and policies of a publication. Their duties include fact-checking, editing content, managing staff, and handling complaints. Effective editor-in-chiefs are respected leaders who are enthusiastic, communicate well, delegate tasks, and make timely decisions. The document also provides an exemplary biography of Anna Wintour, noting her background and career as editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.

1. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
(Editorial Head)

2. WHAT IS AN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF?
A publication's primary head, having final
responsibility for all the operations and
policies.
Is held accountable for delegating tasks to
staff members as well as keeping up with
the time it takes them to complete their
task.

3. WHAT ARE THE DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES?
Cross-checking facts, spelling, grammar,
writing style, design pages and photos.
Rejecting writing that appears to be
plagiarized, ghost-written by another sub-
editor, previously published elsewhere, or
simply of insufficient interest to the readers of
the publication.
Editing any content in question.

4. Contributing editorial pieces.
Motivating and developing editorial staff.
Ensuring final draft is complete and no area is
left empty.
Handling reader complaints and taking
responsibility for resulting issues

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE EDITOR
 High personal/scientific standards
 Highly respected for his/her science
 Active in research
 Previous editorial experience, especially in a decision-making capacity
 Wide knowledge of subject and those working in it
 Liked and highly respected among peers, including international community
 Enthusiastic
 Energetic and committed
 Excels in interpersonal communications
 Effective and positive communicator
 Ability to create and communicate vision
 Strong time-management skills
 Strong leader, good sense of teamwork
 Ability to work effectively with diverse viewpoints and approaches
 Effectively delegates responsibility
 Respects confidential information
 Cooperative and open-minded
 Effectively resolves misunderstandings
 Firm decision-maker
 Promptly and effectively follows through
 Explores and embraces innovative technologies
 Effective partner with AGU staff and colleagues

6. EXEMPLARY AND NOTABLE
CHIEF EDITOR

7. ANNA WINTOUR

8. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Wintour was born in London, in 1949, to Charles
Wintour (1917–1999), editor of the Evening Standard, and
Eleanor "Nonie" Trego Baker, daughter of a Harvard law
professor. Her parents married in 1940 and divorced in 1979.
Wintour was named after her maternal grandmother, Anna
Baker (born Gilkynson), a merchant's daughter from
Pennsylvania. Audrey Slaughter, a magazine editor who
founded publications such as Honey and Petticoat, is her
stepmother. The late-18th-century novelist Lady Elizabeth
Foster, Duchess of Devonshire, was Wintour's great-great-
great-grandmother, and Sir Augustus Vere Foster, the last
Baronet of that name, was a granduncle.

9.  She had four siblings. Her older brother, Gerald, died in a traffic
accident as a child. One of her younger brothers, Patrick, is also a
journalist, currently political editor of The Guardian. James and
Nora Wintour have worked in London local government and for
international non-governmental organizations respectively.
 She had two children by Shaffer following their 1984 marriage:
Charles (Charlie) born 1985, and Katherine (known as Bee) born
1987; the latter wrote occasional columns for The Daily
Telegraph in 2006, but says she won't follow her mother into
fashion. The couple divorced in 1999. Newspapers and gossip
columnists claimed her affair with investor Shelby Bryan ended
the marriage. She declined to comment. Her friends say Bryan
has mellowed her. "She smiles now and has been seen to laugh",
the Observer quoted one as saying.