The Magazines Handbook - Jenny McKay

The Magazines Handbook

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Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2005 | 2nd New edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-38426-1 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive introduction to magazine journalism and the magazine industry. Using examples from consumer magazines, trade journals, periodicals and specialist publications, it discusses the key jobs in the industry, from sub-editor to fashion assistant and journalist through to publisher.
The Magazines Handbook remains the comprehensive introduction to magazine journalism and the magazine industry. It describes the business of publishing magazines and explores the work of magazine journalists. Using examples from consumer magazines, trade journals, periodicals and specialist publications, Jenny McKay discusses the key jobs in the industry, from sub-editor to fashion assistant and journalist through to publisher.


The Magazines Handbook outlines the specialist skills involved in magazine journalism including commissioning, writing news and features, researching, interviewing, sub-editing and production. Specialist chapters discuss electronic publishing and online journalism, magazine design, photography and picture editing as well as the legal framework in which magazine journalists have to operate.


The Magazines Handbook includes




Interviews with magazine journalists, editors, picture researchers and publishers
Advice on starting out and freelancing in the magazine industry
An analysis of 'new journalism' and reportage
A glossary of key terms and specialist concepts
Information on contacts, courses and professional training
Fully updated and rewritten chapters on electronic publishing and electronic journalism, and the magazine journalist and the law.

Jenny McKay has worked as a journalist in magazines, newspapers and television. She is Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Stirling. She was a founding member of the Association for Journalism Education and is a member of the Society for Editors and Women in Journalism.

1.Introduction; 2. Training for magazine journalism; 3. Jobs and careers in magazine journalism; 4. Freelance journalism; 5. Ideas and information; 6. Writing: where to start; 7. Newswriting; 8. Features writing; 9. Interviews 1: chasing the quotes; 10. Interviews 2: chasing the stars; 11. Subediting and production; 12. Electronic publishing and electronic journalism - Tim Holmes; 13. Magazine Design - Tim Holmes; 14. Magazine illustration and picture editing - Tom Ang; 15. The business of magazine publishing; 16. The magazine industry; 17. Issues of conduct; 18. The magazine journalist and the law - Anthony Richards; Useful contacts; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.11.2005
Reihe/Serie Media Practice
Zusatzinfo 1 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 635 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
ISBN-10 0-415-38426-5 / 0415384265
ISBN-13 978-0-415-38426-1 / 9780415384261
Zustand Neuware
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