當今媒體變革下的編輯操作、編輯與受眾、編輯過程、宏觀範疇下的編輯、法律、倫理與適宜性的宏觀編輯、整體編輯：宏觀編輯與微觀編輯的結合、標題，篇名，題注以及提要、使用照片和圖形、編輯報紙、編輯雜志和業務通訊等等。

布雷恩·S·布魯克斯（Brian S.Brooks）美國密蘇裡大學新聞學院教授，主要研究興趣與教學方向為新聞學與新聞學教育中計算機的應用、國際新聞報道、新聞寫作技巧提高和報刊編輯，並且有豐富的新聞實踐經驗。主要作品包括《新聞報道與寫作》（News Reporting and Writing，合著）、《單詞的能力》（Working with Words，合著）、《信息時代的新聞學》（Journalism in the Information Age，合著）等。
詹姆斯·L·平森（James L.Pinson）任教於美國東密歇根大學和密蘇裡新聞學院，面向不同出版群體講授語法和編輯技巧，並在科羅拉多州、密蘇裡州和密歇根州各報社從業約十五年。主要作品包括《單詞的能力》（Working with Words，合著）與《C屏幕界面設計》（Designing Screen Interfaces in C）等。
傑克·Z·西索斯[Jack Z.Sissors）1919年出生，參與了《編輯的藝術》第三版到第七版的撰寫，在本書第八版出版前不幸因病去世。西索斯曾在美國西北大學從事了39年的媒體教學與研究工作，創辦並主編了《媒體企劃期刊》（The Journal of Media Planning）雜志，並有多年的廣告公司從業經驗。其主要作品包括《廣告媒體策劃》（Advertising Media Planning，合著）與《媒體策劃手冊》（Media Planning Workbook，合著）等。

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總體上說，我一直認為這是一本非常優秀的教材。我欣賞該書全面的章節。它很有助益、簡明扼要，而且忠於新聞工作的理想。
——格倫·L·布萊斯克（Glen L.BleSke）加利福尼亞州立大學奇科分校
我相信，《編輯的藝術》對入門者來說是扎實精深的文本，是編輯新聞文本的基礎課教材。本書實現了編輯哲學與編輯基礎知識完美的融合。
——比爾·弗格森（Bill ferguson）哥倫比亞大學

前言
第一部分 整合時代的編輯操作
第1章 當今媒體變革下的編輯操作
第2章 編輯與受眾

第二部分 編輯操作基礎
第3章 編輯過程
第4章 宏觀範疇下的編輯
第5章 法律、倫理與適宜性的宏觀編輯
第6章 整體編輯：宏觀編輯與微觀編輯的結合

第三部分 編輯的視覺藝術
第7章 標題，篇名，題注以及提要
第8章 使用照片和圖形

第四部分 為不同的媒體編輯
第9章 編輯報紙
第10章 編輯雜志和業務通訊
第11章 編輯網頁
第12章 編輯廣播電視媒體
第13章 在其他領域從事編輯

第五部分 編輯的其他角色
第14章 作為指導者的編輯
第15章 作為管理者與領導者的編輯

For generations, news was produced and distributed in assembly-line fashion. Re-porters gathered and wrote it, editors edited it, and publishers produced and distributed it in print or broadcast form to mass audiences. This one-to-many model was born in the Industrial Revolution.
Editors in that environment served as gatekeepers. The editor decided when to open the gate, allowing information to flow to the public. Editors had total control over what was published or broadcast. They determined which stories were news worthy——those they deemed useful, relevant or interesting to their audiences. Editors controlled the gate, and consumers got only what editors gave them.
Editors also controlled the play a story received. Was it newsworthy enough for Page One, where almost everyone would notice it, or should it be relegated to a brief on Page 37, where few would read it？ Did it make the cover of Time, or did it not make the magazine at all？ Did it warrant top billing on the evening news-cast, or was it left to the local newspaper？
Editors were powerful. They called all the shots.
Today, all that is changing. Newer media forms such as the Internet and wire-less devices （mobile telephones and personal digital assistants） allow users to choose what news they want to consume from multiple providers——some traditional and some not-and from digital databases of information vastly larger than the content of the nations largest newspaper or even the capacity of a 24-hour-a-day cable television news channel. In this environment, the one-to-many model disappears, and the user takes control.
Consumers now have almost unlimited access to millions of daily news items on the Internet. Sophisticated software allows them to program computers or wireless devices to receive only the news they want. That software, not an editor, serves as the gatekeeper.

This 8th edition of TAe Art of Editing is the most extensive revision yet undertaken. The text has been altered to reflect the rapid changes taking place in the media industry and the changes we detect in editing courses nationwide。
While the fundamental editing skills taught herein are still those honed for decades at the nations best newspapers and magazines，editing skills are now in great demand throughout the media industry.Therefore，in this edition we place more emphasis on editing for radio，television and the World Wide Web.
Convergence also is a key to this revision，as the new subtitle of the text would suggest。Convergence means many things to many people but we define it here as cooperative ventures among print media，radio and television，and the Web.
While most editors for the foreseeable future will find iobs in one of the existing media，already there is demand for multimedia editors who can edit for print，editaudio and video，and cope with the nuances of the Web.
Demand for that new breed of iournalist iS likely to grow as the governmentproposes relaxation of cross-media ownership rules，approved by the FederalCommunications Commission but challenged by many in Congress as anti-com-petitive.Relaxation of the rules likely would lead to companies increasing owner-ship in newspapers and television stations within the same market to expediteconvergence.