Country editor in his element turned up (6)
I believe the answer is:
sweden
'country' is the definition.
(Sweden is an example)
'editor in his element turned up' is the wordplay.
'editor' becomes 'ed' (abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'his element' becomes 'news' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'turned up' is a reversal indicator.
'ed' placed inside 'news' is 'nedews'.
'nedews' back-to-front is 'SWEDEN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sweden that I've seen before include "Member country of the European Union" , "Stockholm is the capital" , "EU member country" , "North European country" , "land" .)