Marisa Cashill: Picture Editor

“News Never Sleeps”

Marisa Cashill currently works as a Picture Editor for ‘The Yorkshire Post’ which is designed around photography for local and national news. In her job she gets to choose the design e.g. what goes on the front cover. She decides what photographs are eye-catching but in the context with the text and if the photograph is in portrait or landscape.

She can get as many as 200,000 images to sort through and choose and example of a big job was from the Queen’s funeral, to get your work in a newspaper you need to sell yourself as a photography- this comes from quality, originality and speed. She sees her job as important for shining a light on certain situations and informing the public on the news and thus documenting history. As an editor you have to be desensitied to images- many can be sent with the context of crimes and some even document catastrophes including the images of the dead (which can’t be published but have to sorted through). Despite this there are fun new stories, especially those including animals and happy stories. Cashill talked about her love and passion for her job which is always something that is so nice to see.