Becoming a Member

The eligibility for active membership includes specific standards of qualification, such as number of years served as an accredited editor, quality of credits and personal caliber.  An applicant for membership must be sponsored by at least two active members, have at least 60 months of editing experience on Features or Television, and must be approved by the Board of Directors and then accepted by the general membership.

Classifications of membership

• Active members are those who are actively employed as editors;
• Affiliate members are those persons in executive or supervisory positions in the industry;
• Life members are those who have retired and been voted a Life membership by the Board of Directors; 
• Honorary members are those non-editors whom the Board of Directors has determined to have particularly distinguished themselves in the industry.