Watch the recording of our webinar, “Maintaining Editorial Standards amid Shrinking Budgets and Hiring Freezes.” In this session, Maureen Ross, editorial director at Amnet ContentSource, will chair an essential discussion with leading experts Ange Romeo-Hall, director of Editorial, Design, and Production at Cornell University Press, and Christine Thorsteinsson, managing editor at Harvard University Press.
As university presses face shrinking budgets, demanding timelines, and limited staff, maintaining editorial excellence has become more challenging than ever. Hear how two EDP professionals are adjusting to the challenges facing presses, both large and small. They will discuss strategies for ensuring excellence in manuscript editing during lean times.
Christine Thorsteinsson
Christine Thorsteinsson has worked in university press publishing for more than thirty years. She is currently the managing editor at Harvard University Press, where she oversees a team of six editors focused on developmental editing, project management, and all aspects of print and digital book production.
Ange Romeo-Hall
Ange Romeo-Hall is the director of Editorial, Design, and Production at Cornell University Press, which publishes 175 new books a year in diverse fields, ranging from the life sciences to medieval studies. She held several roles since joining the press as a marketing assistant in 1998, spending her core years in manuscript editorial before assuming the leadership of EDP in 2021.
Maureen Ross
Maureen Ross has directed project managers, media editors, and development editors for vendors and for higher education publishers for over thirty years. At Amnet, her group oversees full-service editorial production for university presses and for trade, professional, and educational publishers. Her group also develops educational and test-prep content.
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