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Intro. to Mags
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11/17/2005

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A successful magazine has..
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..a distinct identity
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a magazine's idenity is rooted in...
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the editorial concept/mission statement
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Good ideas
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cosmopolitan (has a natural target audience; natural advertising base)
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bad ideas
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organic style, cookie
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ideas that seemed like a good idea at the time
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suede; men's vogue; rosie; ym; poker mags
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prospectus
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this is the original editorial concept/mission of the magazine written on paper
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eponymous mags
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IE--oprah, martha stewart
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Raison d'etre
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magazines need a clear editorial reason for existence
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the editorial mission is..
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used as a basis for what to put into the magazine
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Above the line staff
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editor, managing editor, executive editor
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editor
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supplies the central thrust/creative force of the magazine
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managing editor
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magazine "sergeant" --all details
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executive editor
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makes daily decisions; tries to shape the mag according to the top editor's vision
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art director
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manages design and photography
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Senior editor
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assigns stories; may write major feature pieces (doesnt do much writing)
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associate editor/ assistant editor
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write, edit or assign material; write titles and subtitles; (do more writing than editing)
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copy editor
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corrects grammar, usage, style etc.
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researcher/fact checker
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focus on accuracy; check facts; research stories
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the A-list
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PEople, Real Simple, Teen Vogue, US WEekly, More...
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B-List
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Celebrity Hairstyles
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C+ List/C List
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Everyday w/Rachel Ray; Everyday Food--Martha Stewart; Maxim
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C- List
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US NEws and World Report
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D-List
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Life (friday supplement)
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F-List
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Organic Style
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The Mix of a Magazine
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this is advertised at the top of the cover; this is what's in the mag; it should also be in the feature well (table of contents)
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ARTICLE TYPES: Service
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expert advice; how-to information; news and trends; "helps you improve your daily life"
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ARTICLE TYPES: Profile (coined by the New Yorker in the 1920's)
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Biography; New Yorker Profile; Personality sketch; no interviewer; institutional; Q&A
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ARTICLE TYPES: Investigative Reporting
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Literary journalism; new journalism
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ARTICLE TYPES: Essay
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critical; personal; editorials
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ARTICLE TYPES: Fiction
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Serialized novels; short-story; excerpts
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Helen Gurley Brown of Cosmo once said...
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"You can't edit a magazine by comittee-it's not a democracy"
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Where do good ideas for magazine content come from?
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editors who KNOW the reader; the role of the editor as a middle person b/w the article and the reader is an important one
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TWO ways to edit other people's copy:
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(1) put on a better lead and send it thru; it does not go back to writer (2) writer's book--story passed around to 5 editors; they write a paragraph about it; comments come back to the writer and they revise their story
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what is wrong with the magazine industry?
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the "vanillafication" of covers; good covers help increase sell-thru
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George Lois
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helped design popular and memorable mag covers; (esquire); "magazines dont' even try to do covers with actual ideas anymore"
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COVER TYPES: Poster
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has only a drawing or a photograph along with the name of the mag, date, and possibly the price (aka art covers); these were dominant during much of the early part of the 20th c. (up until the 1930s. sat evening post, norman rockwell)
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COVER TYPES:One theme, one image
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there is a photograph or drawing with a 2 or 3 word identification of the subject or a short descriptive phrase; the depicted cover image is featured in a major inside story. (ex: Life mag, 1936-1949)
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COVER TYPES: multi-theme, one image
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used by the majority of mags; most common today; (ex: cosmopolitan)
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COVER TYPES: Multi-theme and multi-image
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second most popular format; there is more than one photo or more likely, a collage of cropped photos or cutouts, along with numerous cover lines; this is being used increasingly (ex: celebrity mags)
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COVER TYPES: all type
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no photo or drawing, just words on the cover; rolling stone, new york, and esquire have had success with this;
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Design is...
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integral to a magzine's editorial voice
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1923
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invention of the Leica--the first handheld 35mm camera; could now obtain action shots; this ushered in the Age of PhotoJournalism; the continuity of the story was now provided by pics, not text
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first art director
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Will Bradley (Collier's mag in 1907; systematic styling of Cosmo in 1916)
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The Golden Age of Magazine Design
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1945-1968: assault on the senses; more white space, layouts not as busy; dramatic effect; type becomes part of the image; headline/text superimosed on an image; more creative use of the double page spread
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bleed photo
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an image that extends past the edge of the page
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dingbat
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the small design doodad at the end of a story
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font
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an individual typeface
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cropping
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the figurative cutting away of undesired portions of a photo
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grid
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the formatted layout, establishing widths of margins and columns, placements of titles, photos and cutlines, and use of white space, or "air" in each layout
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infographics
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explanatory visuals like pie charts, diagrams and graphs
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logo
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the mag's name on the cover in its specially-designed font
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pica
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the measurement width and depth of columns of type (6 picas=1 inch)
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pull-quote
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words pulled from an article and placed in display type
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reverse type
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white type on a black or colored background
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sans serif
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typefaces that are modern and geometric, without the little "feet" at the end of letter strokes that characterizes serif fonts
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sell lines
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the words on the cover that "sell" the contents (aka--tease lines)
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typography
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the visual side of the words themselves; the choice of type face as an art form
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Magazine Production
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high costs; drains a lot from the mag; 30% of budget goes toward production
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M and M
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Mechanical and mailing (production and distribution)
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mag art in the 1700's
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art was woodcuts; each letter of type was set by hand; hand operated presses; paper made by hand
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late 1800's
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magazines able to be reproduced in a mass way
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1871/1886/1890's
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the web press/Linotype machine/invention of the half-tone (making a picture printable
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1905/1914/1920s
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nat'l geographic ran 11 pages of photos of tibet/nat'l geographic ran first cover photo/art directors are big
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1984
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computers invented; Desktop publishing made things cheaper and easier
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Mag business software
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1st was XyWrite; then Micro. Word; Quark; InDesign;
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Production Director
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responsible for contract w/ the printer and paper company; NEEDS to meet the press deadline
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break of the book
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sketch of where the stories will go; not done until ad deadline
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paper and color
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paper is called stock; coated stock is glossy paper; thickness of paper is said interms of poundage; all colors are replicated w/ 4 inks--magenta, cyan, yellow, and black; (4/c)
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types of binding
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saddle stitch--cheaper, easier, faster, stapled; perfect--flat, nonstaple, more expensive
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zeitgeist
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spirit of the times
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Advertiser demands are...
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the major conflict in magazines today
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the Next natural evolving demand for advertisers is...
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product placement
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photo fiction
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should be applied to any manipulated photo that's meaning has been changed
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