redacteuren
Redacteuren are editors in Dutch-language media who prepare content for publication. They work in newspapers, magazines, online outlets, and in radio or television production teams. Their core tasks include developing story ideas, assigning articles to reporters, and editing texts for clarity, conciseness, and style, while ensuring factual accuracy. They verify quotes and sources and ensure compliance with editorial guidelines, reputational considerations, and legal constraints. Redacteuren collaborate closely with journalists, photographers, designers, and web editors, and may write articles, opinion pieces, headlines, or captions themselves. In many organizations, editors are organized by beat, such as politics, culture, or economy, and there are support roles like eindredacteur (copy editor) who performs final checks and an hoofdredacteur (editor-in-chief) who defines the editorial line and makes high-level decisions.
Workflow typically involves planning coverage, commissioning pieces, supervising drafts, editing text, approving headlines, coordinating with production
Skills often include strong language proficiency, editorial judgment, research and fact-checking abilities, interviewing skills, deadline discipline,