by Harpreet Bhagrath | Feb 13, 2012 | Tutorials for Our Editors
Hi, CW editors.
Along with your daily editorial tasks, we need you to work on the standard operating procedures (SOP) file.
Your objective is to write down all your procedures and processes for the various jobs you do for your portals. For example, if you are writing your SOPs on the task of Topic Selection, just provide all your procedures and processes for this task, the resources you use, important steps you take from start to finish, possible problems and their solutions, etc.
For the sake of understanding, your ideal audience for this file is an editorial manager like you who has not worked in Cosmos Media but who has to fill in for you when you are gone for some time. So write down all the things this manager must know to do her job in your absence.
Here are all the tasks you do as the editorial managers at Cosmos Media. Try to write as much as you can on the following tasks.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Writing
- Editing
- Topic Selection
- Forum Postings
- Liaising with Writers
- Managing
- Content Promotion
- Public Relations
When you think you are finished with this file, compare notes with me so that I can suggest improvements, if any.
Get in touch with me for queries and doubts. I’ll be happy to put you on the right track.
by Harpreet Bhagrath | Feb 12, 2012 | Tutorials for Our Editors
Jatin,
I have attached the list of PR companies and production houses that we have to maintain relation with. I have also attached my file on communication with these firms.
Your objective is to renew contact with these firms and maintain the relation in a way that they remember TJ and you.
To maintain a relation with them, we can receive and publish their press releases, movie reviews, star photos, help them publicise their movie releases, carry their trailers, etc. We can also interview PR firms’ clients or stars when a movie is being released. Anytime some big shot or big star is in Nagpur, you can personally interview him.
Kindly go through both the attached files. You have a file on who to contact and you have another file on how to contact them and what to write to them.
Kindly also try to fill the missing information in the PR contacts file. You need to keep this file updated, complete with latest contact information, contact person, remarks, what happened last with them, what communication took place between you and them, etc.
Discuss with me if you don’t understand something after going through the files.
by Harpreet Bhagrath | Oct 16, 2011 | Fussy Editor, Tutorials for Our Editors
Hi, Jatin.
Can you kindly edit The Journeyer copies better in future? Here: http://www.thejourneyer.net/smart-moms-share-house-and-family-work-together-33237.html. This was a very poorly written article and edited equally badly. We need to reject articles this poorly written straightaway.
The issues start from the title of the article: “Smart Moms Share House and Family Work Together!” Share together? Can we share something separately?
The rest of the article is just terrible; weak ideas, presented even more weakly, and one of the poorest diction I have come across in recent times. For instance, does she even know the meanings of words incoming and splendor? Even if she does know their meanings, she doesn’t know how these words work in a sentence. She also doesn’t know how the word fulfilling works, or even break through, which is decidedly a compound word, breakthrough. And all these diction issues in one graph alone.
Here, the original masterpiece for you: A mom taking care of one and all of the family, fulfilling them with all needs will make a break through when she is incoming bucks to add to her function at home. With this additional responsibility she adds one more feather to her hat making her more and more splendor.
Her pathetic diction is evident in the entire piece. Kindly go through the article again to see what I mean. You should have just canceled it; no need to publish such crappy pieces.
I can go on like this with the rest of the article, but I gotta stop somewhere. Better things to do. So I stop now.
Too much work is involved in writers like her. The issue is as much with her English, which is terrible, as with her ideas and the way her brain works; she is not focused on clear communication at all. With non-writers like her, it’s best to just leave them alone and not have anything to do with them, unless they are paying us to train them.
