editor in chief

noun phrase

: an editor who heads an editorial staff

Examples of editor in chief in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Alfonsi departed after clashing with Bari Weiss, CBS News’ editor in chief, who delayed the airing of a report the journalist had prepared investigating the deportation of migrants to harsh prisons in Venezuela. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

Case Study 2 Faked Reviewers Using the screening tools and data available to IEEE periodical editors, an editor in chief was alerted to suspicious reviewer activity. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026

Weiss was hired as editor in chief of CBS News in October with a mandate from Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison to pull the network more to the political center. — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026

If the editor in chief liked an idea on your page, you would get called on to talk about it. — Longreads, 23 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1810, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for editor in chief

• beef
• brief
• fief
• grief
• leaf
• lief
• reef
• reif
• seif
• sheaf
• thief
• belief