Editorial Project Management - Saffrey Abi

CIEP guides provide a short, basic introduction to the various skills and knowledge needed to work as an editorial professional. They are intended for copyeditors and proofreaders, both practising and potential, and will also prove useful to others involved in publishing content, including businesses, organisations, agencies, students and authors.

Editorial project managers make publications happen, taking raw content through quality control and design processes to produce a finished product.

Editorial Project Management outlines the key concepts of editorial project management, including briefing, scheduling and budgeting. It highlights the importance of communication, and other soft skills, in guiding a project through its production while meeting stakeholders' requirements and getting the best out of suppliers.

This guide is for you if:

1. you want to know what editorial project management is
2. you are thinking about adding editorial project management to your skillset
3. you are considering taking on editorial project management responsibilities.