Preposition: of

• magazine: Antony Kirby is sub-editor of the Magazine, and JW ( Jill Waddington?

Converse of object

• become: Vaughan came to know him at St Bede's and had invited him to become sub-editor of The Tablet in 1895.

Adjective modifier

• chief: Moreover, she deduced that the Union Jack's chief sub-editor must of course be Tinker.

• senior: I have been there for four years working as a senior sub-editor and designer.

Preposition: on

• newspaper: I have done lots of different things - my last full-time job was as a sub-editor on a local newspaper.

Noun used with modifier

• sport: John Ashdown studied Journalism and Contemporary History and is now working on the Guardian Sports Desk as a football writer and sports sub-editor.

• newspaper: He has worked both as a weekly newspaper editor and evening newspaper sub-editor.