To consider how magazine staff are divided in terms of their skills

• The publishing industry employs over 195,000 people representing approximately 36% of the creative media work force
• 51,000 people employed in the newspaper industry
• 50,500 work in journals and magazines
• 33,000 in the book industry
• 12,000 in other information service activities

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Job titles and teams 

 

IPCMedia - publish NME

This information is taken from NME magazine edition 18th June 2005

The magazine I compared with was XXL

We found that the jobs listed on our magazines were different but we felt they were different jobs because it was as if they were the same jobs but with different / more built up names, although we did find that one or two jobs had the same names for example the both list: Production director, Publisher and President

 

 

 

 What do you think are the responsibilities of a chief editor?

 

• Cut down mass amounts of text
• Double check over illiterate language
• Confirm the grammar 
• Make sure the minor editors are inline and doing their job correctly 
• To make sure the text isn't copied
• leads meetings
• budget control
• is the public face if the story representing the magazine in the statements in all platforms of publication
• attends functions events awards ceremonies
• occasional column writing / editorial piece
• decide on narrative or theme for each edition of the magazine for all staff to adhere to
• publish an editorial calendar to highlight themes in appropriate months
• strategic planning ( overall direction of product )
• overall decision on any change to deadlines set
• manages careers of present and new staff motivating team
• legal decisions following pcc guidelines
• liase with publisher marketing depts, media sales team, PR agencies
• build up contacts and connections