What editor-occupation donors give in federal races

Many schedules, a small per-line mean

$12,055,499, 72,579 itemizations, and 1,922 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $166. Mean dollars per donor record are about $6,272. Repeat giving is about 38 itemizations per donor record.

72,579 lines from 1,922 records is a high-repeat publishing-title stack. The $166 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume, not a typical freelance invoice redirected to politics.

The packet has no print-versus-digital split, no employer field, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain smaller.

EDITOR is not a newsroom roster

The FEC record does not verify that the donor edits books, magazines, film, or web copy. Film editors, copy editors, and people using the word loosely can all appear. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $12,055,499, 72,579 contributions, and 1,922 donors. WRITER, PRODUCER, and JOURNALIST — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to EDITOR.

Donor records and overlapping media titles

1,922 donor records used EDITOR on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed EDITOR on some gifts and WRITER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the media title.

Industry pages group employers, not titles

Industry pages group employers. An editor at a newspaper and an editor at a textbook house share this occupation string if they typed EDITOR. Adding $12,055,499 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the EDITOR occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the string next to other media titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals EDITOR, dollars equal $12,055,499, contributions equal 72,579, donors equal 1,922, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the high-repeat mean is visible next to the headline dollars.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $12,055,499, 72,579 contributions, and 1,922 donors. Neighboring media titles stay on their own pages unless the extract merged them into EDITOR.

Reading EDITOR as a one-word media key

EDITOR in this extract is $12,055,499 on 72,579 itemizations from 1,922 donor records, or $12.1 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules. People who type writer, producer, or journalist may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact EDITOR key is in $12,055,499.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $166 per contribution and about $6,272 per donor record, with roughly 38 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining EDITOR with neighboring media strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 1,922 donor records on 72,579 lines is a high-repeat title pool, not a masthead census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $12,055,499. A person who listed EDITOR on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals EDITOR, dollars equal $12,055,499, contributions equal 72,579, donors equal 1,922. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live EDITOR occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($12.1 million) are the same headline amount as $12,055,499, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 72,579 contributions and 1,922 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the high-repeat media-title pattern rather than a masthead census. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a union card. A citation that stays inside the packet names EDITOR, $12,055,499, 72,579, and 1,922 together.

Questions

How much have editor-occupation donors given in FEC data?

The EDITOR occupation string is attached to $12,055,499 across 72,579 contributions and 1,922 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of working editors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does EDITOR include film editors and copy editors?

The string matches whatever donors typed. The FEC does not split book, news, or film editing. This page covers EDITOR: $12,055,499, 72,579 contributions, and 1,922 donors. Check the occupations index for neighboring media strings. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average editor contribution?

Dividing $12,055,499 by 72,579 itemizations yields about $166 per contribution. Dividing by 1,922 donors yields about $6,272 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 38 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing editor prove the donor works at a news outlet?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify employer or medium. Quote 72,579 contributions and 1,922 donor records with the $12,055,499 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.