To consider how magazine staff are divided in terms of their skills, To identify which skills are needed to do particular jobs in the publishing industry

The Publishing sector on the UK 

 

 

The Publishing industry employs over 195,000 people, representing approximately 36% of the creative media workforce.

 

• 51,000 people employed in the newspaper sector
• 50,500 work In journals and magazine
• 33,000 in the book industry
• 12,00 in the other information service activities
• www.creativeskillset.org

 

 



1) One of the differences between the 2 pictures is that the NME magazine has the title of the section that the people work in in a bold black line rather than the XXL magazine have it just in plain black

Another difference is that the alignment of the NME magazine is all to the left and the XXL magazine has the alignment all down the centre.

One other difference is that the name of the persons role is in bold and the name is in regular font and the XXL magazine is the exact opposite


2) The wording for the jobs like "Chief sub editor" in the NME magazine is different to the XXL magazine that says "Deputy Editor" Showing that NME have a lot more staff that are important to the magazine

3) The NME has a web section for there website showing the importance of online advertising







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What do you think are the responsibilities of a Chief Editor

• Setting deadlines for each sections
• Checking each section of the magazine for problems or typos
• Managing staff members
• Making the official decisions in what to do
• Is in charge of everything going on
• Delegating tasks
• Leads meetings
• Attends functions, events, award ceremonies
• The "Public Face" of the story
• Budget Control
• Occasional column writing/ Editorial Piece
• Strategic Planning
• Legal decisions
• Build up contacts and connections
• Manages careers of present and new staff, motivating team
• Liase with publisher, marketing depts, media sales team, PR agencies