In this rough-and-tumble publishing economy, a new editorial job is breaking news. Today mediabistro.com posted an editor-in-chief opening at Getty Publications.
The art book publisher has a backlist of more than 400 titles, publishing 50 peer-reviewed books every year–including this year’s “Images in the Margins” by Margot McIlwain Nishimura. The publisher supports different arms of the J. Paul Getty Trust — including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, and Getty Conservation Institute.
Check it out: “The Editor-in-Chiefs main responsibility is to seek, develop, and acquire books for Getty Publications to publish and distribute, with the goals of furthering the institutions mission. The Editor-in-Chief, who reports to the Publisher, is responsible for ensuring that each book selected meets the highest content and editorial standards. Because the Getty publishes for a variety of audiences, the Editor-in-Chief will build a list that has broad appealbringing ideas on art and culture to the general public as well as to readers with more focused scholarly interests.”