Traditionally, editors have had to fight the stereotype of being crotchety. After all, old newspaper movies always showed the copy editor as someone who could not get along with anyone else and had been banished to a dark corner of the office forever correcting others’ articles and never getting a chance to write any of his or her own. The reality is, though, that editors provide feedback on other people’s work product, and they will be so much more successful if they do so with kindness and empathy. Find out what soft skills editors need to be successful in this webinar, which draws on interviews conducted with a technical editor’s internal clients.

Speaker Profile

Fatima Hyder

Fatima earned her CPTC certification in 2017. She served as treasurer of the TESIG from January 2021 to November 2022; prior to that she served as the secretary.

She has worked in communications for 25 years, including 15 years as a technical editor for an environmental consulting and construction management company. Her previous communications roles have included handling member communications as a writer/editor for a nonprofit organization that supports libraries and working as a copy editor at two daily newspapers in Tennessee. She has also taught editing at the college level.