An editor is an person who oversees the planning of a text for newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books.

The term editor can refer to an person who assists an author in copyediting content.

Editor Chris King explains her job as “invisible mending.” “An editor,” she says, “is like a ghost, in that her handiwork should never be apparent” (“Ghosting and Co-Writing” in The Ultimate Writing Coach, 2010).