Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a picture editor can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a picture editor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Picture editors select and approve photographs and illustrations for newspapers, journals and magazines. Picture editors make sure that the photographs are delivered on time for publication.

Also known as photo editor, picture selector and organiser, picture selector and organizer, image editor, photograph editor.

Professionals 48 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: editor-in-chief, 63%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
editor-in-chief 63% covered magazine editor 63% covered newspaper editor 61% covered broadcast news editor 56% covered photojournalist 50% covered picture editor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from picture editor, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a picture editor already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A picture editor needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • negotiate exploitation rights communication, collaboration and creativity
  • select photos handling and moving
  • post-processing of photographs arts and humanities
  • consult with editor communication, collaboration and creativity
  • build contacts to maintain news flow communication, collaboration and creativity
  • follow ethical code of conduct of journalists assisting and caring
  • edit negatives working with computers
  • editorial standards social sciences, journalism and information
  • press law business, administration and law
  • edit photographs working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a picture editor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Picture editor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a picture editor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.