We Need More Editors
By: Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Tags: Writing, Self Improvement, Editing, Business, Freelancing

ILLUMINATION is a signification publication now. It is growing rapidly serving 7,000 plus writers. With addition of ILLUMINATION-Curated and Technology Hits we need more editors to help publish stories of our writers on a timely manner and delight our readers with fresh content.

Our editors are volunteers. As you may know publications don’t earn any income on Medium. The expenses are covered by the owner of the publications. We face a lot of challenges.

Since Medium platform has limited support for large publications, I have to shoulder the administrative cost incurring the additional services we provide. This is fine for me at this stage as it is a giveback activity I delightfully offer to our community. I enjoy my investment on the publication as long as writers and readers are happy with our services.

Invitation to apply for editorial positions

If you want to contribute to our writers and readers by publishing stories you can show your interest as response to this post and directly approach me on our Slack workspace.

Talking of the Slack, it is the prerequisite for editors to be be on Slack as we run our publishing operation via Slack workspace. Without using this tool it is almost impossible to deal with so many writers. Using the private message feature on Medium is limited and cause delays for publishing.

Criteria for Editors

The set of criteria to become an editor for ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, and Technology Hits:

1 — Excellent writing, reading, and interpersonal skills in English. 2 — Being an MPP member. 3 — Having published at least 10 stories in our publications. 4 — Being a member of our Slack workspace. 5 — To have empathy and compassion for writers, especially for new writers. 6 — Being able to use Grammarly and other language tools. 7— Being able to use plagiarism detection software. We have zero tolerance for plagiarism. 8 — Making a commitment of publishing at least three stories per day.

The reason we add item #8 as prerequisite is that some writers stopped contributing after they got the editorial privilege and used it for publishing their own stories. We remove non-contributing editors.

We provide training and mentoring for items 6 and 7. We have our internal processes and our editors can bring you up to speed very quickly.

One of our editors (Thewriteyard) describes what the job actually entails during our conversations. Let me rephrase so that we all operate on the same page.

First of all you will need to have a lot of patience.

Secondly you will be supporting many writers whose skills require help, some because English is not their first language , others because they are venturing along a new path and are naive about writing for publication.

Thirdly you will be a detective, weeding out stories that have been copied from other writers, YouTube videos and all manner of other sources.

To top all that, you will get to read a wide variety of submissions which will delight, educate, and sometimes surprise!

What other benefits you may gain from this engagement?

Benefits of Being an Editor

There are several benefits and they depend on each editor.

Here are some we observed from our previous editors who gained the following benefits.

Privilege to publish your own articles Opportunity to build your network using our large writer and reader base Deepening your relationship with writers and readers by creating featured stories and editorial bulletins Improving your editorial and administrative skills Using your skills as a reference for your freelancing jobs

If you are interested to our publications supporting our 7,000 writers and 70,000 readers, please leave a comment on this story or contact me on our Slack workspace.

Meet our editors

You can meet our current editors from this resource.

Our editors work hard to help our writers succeed and ensure that readers are delighted with our services. They invest their precious time volunteering for smooth publishing of your stories. ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION, Editor of Technology Hits, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, Tree Langdon, Brian E. Wish, PhD, Dr Ron Pol, Dr Michael Heng, Dr John Rose, Paul Myers MBA, Karen Madej, Joe Luca, Dipti Pande, Kevin Buddaeus, Kate Maxwell, Arthur G. Hernandez, Bill Abbate, Michael Patanella, Aurora Eliam, CMP, René Junge, Geetika Sethi, Ahmed Jamal, Britni Pepper, Selma, Earnest Painter, Dew Langrial, B. A. Cumberlidge. Lanu Pitan, Agnes Laurens, EP McKnight, MEd, CR Mandler MAT, The Maverick Files, Sumera Rizwan, Liam Ireland, Tony Young, Jr., Neha Sandhir S, Desiree Driesenaar, Stuart Englander, Ntathu Allen, Thewriteyard, Haimish Mead, Maria Rattray

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