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Editor in Chief A Management Guide for Magazine Editors

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ISBN-10: 0813810795

ISBN-13: 9780813810799

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Benton Rain Patterson, Coleman E. P. Patterson

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Packed with specific how-tos, examples and illustrations, The Editor in Chief vividly presents the guiding principles of editorial management. Authors Patterson and Patterson combine their extensive publishing and management expertise to update and enrich this best selling text, providing help and insight to future and present journalists working in the editorial department of a magazine.New to this edition is a chapter on one of the most popular and fastest growing areas of magazine publishing - online publishing. Readers will learn about e-zines, and online editions of printing magazines:LaunchingFundingOrganizing a staffIncreasing readershipAimed at students interested in careers as…    
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Book details

List price: $64.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.00" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Benton Rain Patterson is a former staff writer and editor for the Saturday Evening Post and The New York Times. He is emeritus associate professor of journalism at the University of Florida and author of Harold and William: The Battle for England, A.D. 1064—1066 and Washington and Cornwallis: The Battle for America, 1775—1783. He lives in Gainesville, FL.

Preface
Magazines and How They Work
The New World of Online Magazines
The Editorial Staff and Its Functions
Managing the Editorial Department
Acquiring the Content
The Editorial Process
Planning an Issue
Displaying the Content
Planning and Acquiring Photos and Artwork Illustration
Titles and Subtitles
Blurbs and Captions
The Table of Contents
Letters to the Editor and Standing Features
The Cover--A Magazine's Most Important Page
Cover Lines
The Production Process
Legal Bugaboos and Journalistic Ethics
Index