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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Role of a Curator

The job of an editor is to find people with interesting ideas and help them craft those ideas into legible fashion. Ted always strikes me as a remarkable triumph of editing. I believe your actual title there is Curator. And on a day-to-day level, what does the job of Curator entail for you? Yes, one level. It's very simple. We are looking all the time for people who have something remarkable to say and who can say it in a compelling way.

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