Advice to the College Student
Wanting a Magazine Gig
By Ryan Derousseau
July 09
Let's begin this post with a warning. If you're a current college student pinning all your hopes and dreams on working at a magazine once you graduate, you most likely will find yourself very disappointed. With the rise of digital, there are so fewer mag jobs available. And, even in the magazine world, you need to understand what works online...
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It talks about knowing the magazine-who it caters to, what their focus is, etc. That is just a general rule of writing for media. This is especially true with newspapers. Even big newspapers such as The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Times and The Times-Picayune out of New Orleans focus on local happenings first. Or at least how the nation-wide or international happenings affect them.
ReplyDeleteThis article is interesting but also disheartening.
ReplyDeleteThis article does place reality upon the magazine industry. It is important to use this article as a hint in pursuing a career in magazine. I do think this article is helpful to those who are interested in this as a career.
ReplyDeleteThis article is very blunt and realistic. It also stresses the importance of digital media and webpages which is becoming more prevalent in today's culture.
ReplyDeleteThis article seems to look at the industry threw pestimistic eyes. Though threw out interviews we have all learned how quickly this industry has had to adapt as well as how we have to adapt to the many new types of media.
ReplyDeleteThis article makes good points however its a little upsetting and pessimistic telling readers that if they ever had hopes of a magazine career, they might as well move on.
ReplyDeleteThe article is quite "dark". I think it was bias as well.
ReplyDeleteThe writer did have credibility but the ariticle is so mean.
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