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An editor, in old records usually of a newspaper, chose and corrected what was printed and often wrote much of it.
Wiktionary defines an editor as a person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish. The word can also mean someone who prepared a particular book or document for print.
The 1900 census instructions told enumerators to distinguish a journalist, editor or reporter from an author or other literary person who did not follow journalism as a distinct profession.
As seen in a recordOccupation and industry columns of the 1910 to 1940 census
Horace Thibodeau, 40, Editor, Newspaper
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