Editorial Director
It turns your request into a clear assignment before research or writing begins.
- IISource Desk
- IIIPlanning Desk
- IVWriters Desk
- VFact Desk
- VIQA Desk
- VIIEditor-in-Chief
- VIIIStandards Desk
- IXArt Desk
- XProduction Desk
The Editorial Director is the first of the ten editorial desks and works beside the Source Desk. It shapes your order into an assignment for the Planning Desk, Writers Desk and every checking desk.
The Editorial Director turns your request into a clear assignment before research or writing begins. It decides who the article is for, what it should give them, what line it should take and what each section must answer.
That shared purpose guides the Source Desk, Planning Desk, Writers Desk and every checking desk. Without it, the later desks would not be working from the same reader, promise and angle, and the finished article would not feel considered from headline to close.
One role works here: the Director, which turns your order into the assignment every desk after it follows.
The Editorial Director receives your request and your choices for format, language, country, length, headline, outline and whether to research. It also knows the date. If your subject has already been searched, it reads the result titles and one line from each result so it can place a new product or smaller company in context.
It hands on the reader, promise, angle, headline and sections. Each section carries a question it must answer, such as how much water remained in a reservoir and when that amount was measured. The Source Desk uses the questions to judge which pages matter, and the Writer follows them after you approve the outline. On the Create pages, you can edit the headline, sections and direction before writing begins. Every later desk follows those changes. The Editorial Director does this for Create, bulk, API and newsroom articles.
4 things it holds to, on every piece it touches.
Your decisions stay yours.
Your format, subjects, length, source choices and publishing preference carry into the assignment.
Evidence decides what is true.
The Director sets the questions and angle. The Source Desk searches in your words and finds the evidence, keeping editorial judgement separate from reporting.
Published reporting supports every section.
The Director plans sections that published sources can fill. It does not set a section that would require first-hand testing or a visit.
Policy applies from the start.
A request outside the newsroom's content policy receives a clear reason before research or writing begins.
You ask for an article about a new rule for savings accounts. The Director defines the reader as someone deciding this month whether to move their savings. It asks what changes, when it changes, who it affects and what it means for a typical saver. Every paragraph now has a clear purpose.
Its decisions show in an article built for one reader and promise, with a clear angle and sections that answer their assigned questions. The same purpose carries from the headline to the close.
What people ask about the Editorial Director.
What goes into a content brief before writing starts?
How does an assignment guide the editorial process?
Can you change the article outline before writing begins?
How does the Editorial Director handle a new product or smaller company?
What happens if a request is outside the content policy?
Ten editorial desks,
on your next article.
7 days, 10 articles, no card. Every article shows its work.