ABSTRACT

The Magazines Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to the magazine industry. It traces the development of magazine publishing and explores the business of magazines and the role of the magazine journalist. 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.

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter |6 pages

What exactly is a magazine?

chapter 2|2 pages

Training for magazine journalism

chapter |8 pages

Journalism in universities

chapter 3|9 pages

Jobs and careers in magazine journalism

chapter 4|4 pages

Freelance journalism

chapter |8 pages

Freelancing on the side

chapter |1 pages

Unsolicited copy

chapter 5|13 pages

Ideas and information

chapter 6|14 pages

Writing: where to start

chapter 7|5 pages

Newswriting

chapter |4 pages

Quotations

chapter 8|14 pages

Features writing

chapter |2 pages

Putting a feature together

chapter 9|10 pages

Interviews 1: chasing the quotes

chapter 10|2 pages

Interviews 2: chasing the stars

chapter |4 pages

What the readers want

chapter |7 pages

Asking the questions

chapter 11|27 pages

Subediting and production

chapter |2 pages

Journalists and the Internet

chapter |2 pages

Information sources

chapter |2 pages

Paul Richfield, e-journalist

chapter |2 pages

Job prospects in cyberspace

chapter 13|12 pages

Magazine design

chapter 15|20 pages

The business of magazine publishing

chapter 16|8 pages

The magazine industry

chapter 17|4 pages

Issues of conduct

chapter |2 pages

Codes of conduct

chapter |6 pages

Hypocrisy

chapter |5 pages

Admission to courts

chapter |7 pages

Slander

chapter |1 pages

Useful addresses