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Editor
OFO Code: 264202
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 264202
- Occupation
- Editor
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2642 · Journalists
Official description
Journalists research, investigate, interpret and communicate news and public affairs through newspapers, television, radio and other media.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Publications Editor, News Editor, Editorial Administrator, Features Editor, Programme Editor, Publications Advisor, Publications Officer, Magazine Designer, Subeditor, Associate Editor, Artwork Editor, Pictures Editor, Website / Blog Editor, Legal Editor, Technical Editor
- Collecting, reporting and commenting on news and current affairs for publication in newspapers and periodicals, or for broadcasting by radio, television or webcast media
- Interviewing politicians and other public figures at press conferences and on other occasions, including individual interviews recorded for radio, television or webcast media
- Receiving, analysing and verifying news and other copy for accuracy
- Writing critical reviews of literary, musical and other artistic works based on knowledge, judgement and experience for newspapers, television, radio and other media
- Selecting material for publication, checking style, grammar, accuracy and legality of content and arranging for any necessary revisions
- Selecting, assembling and preparing publicity material about business or other organizations for issue through press, radio, television and other media
- Researching and reporting on developments in specialised fields such as medicine, science and technology
- Collecting local, national and international news through interviews, investigation and observation, attending public events, seeking out records, reviewing written work, attending film and stage performances
- Liaising with production staff in checking final proof copies immediately prior to printing
- Writing editorials and commentaries on topics of current interest to stimulate public interest and express the views of a publication or broadcasting station
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.
3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
Open remuneration history & calculator →4. Quick EE check
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
Understand NQF levels, institutions & recognition → Build my qualification pathway →6. Study funding
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
Browse the official South African industry classification →8. Next steps — official links
9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.