Editor-at-Large

An editor -at-large is contributing to a publication, a journalist, of the contents. Sometimes he is in the English language as " roving reporter" - to German as roving reporter - called. In contrast to an editor who works daily as a permanent employee for a medium, content controls, the editor -at-large at irregular intervals and therefore usually less influence on individual areas, such as layout, design or photo orientation of the medium. He is under the direction, control and supervision of publishing director and editor in chief, but may often contribute their own research ideas and concepts for the respective medium. The editor -at-large has no specific tasks, but may often work on issues and stories that interest him personally.

The term used mostly in the American was originally coined by employees of the U.S. journalists, reporters and fashion columnist Glenn O'Brien at the High Times Magazine in the 1970s and was an inside joke. During his work for the magazine in the 1970s, O'Brien appeared only rarely at his workplace, colleagues joked that he was mostly " at large "; The insider -joke referring to the old Most Wanted posters of the FBI, where many are looking for the status of " at-large " had, so "free running around ."