Tim Holmes is Associate Director of the Centre for Journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK. He teaches on the MA in Magazine Journalism, the MBA in Media Management and the BA in Journalism and Communications. He is co-author (with Mottershead, G. G. and Hadwin, S. B.) of The 21st Century Journalism Handbook: Essential Skills for the Modern Journalist (Routledge, 2012), and editor of Mapping the Magazine: Comparative Studies In Magazine Journalism (Routledge, 2008).

Preface 1. Introduction 2. What makes a subeditor? 3. Professional subediting practice Tim Holmes with Glyn Mottershead 4. How to create great news headlines 5. Headline systems for news 6. How to create great feature headlines 7. Page furniture for features 1 8. Page furniture for features 2 9. Law for subeditors 10. Covers and splash pages Glossary of terms used in journalism Appendix 1: Hard copy proof correction symbols Appendix 2: Sample marked up hard copy proof page