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The best editors on the planet

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- Now, for those of you who don't know me, for more than 20 years, I was a professional journalist, and during that time, I had the opportunity to write for some of the world's biggest and best known news organizations. I'm talking about publications like The Economist, The Financial Times, Time Magazine, Dow Jones and Bloomberg News, to name a few. And right before I changed careers to become a writing instructor, I was an editor for the Wall Street Journal newspaper where I also trained dozens of reporters and editors. Now, as you'd expect, working for so long for so many major news organizations gave me many insights into what it means to write well and it's those insights that I'm going to be sharing with you in this program. In other words, I'm going to teach you how news writers and editors who work for leading news organizations perform the magic of writing captivating content every day for millions of readers.…

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