Magazines and Business Media
Magazines and Business Media offer excellent prospects for those wanting a job in publishing. There are nearly 9,000 titles with a total value of more than £6 billion and the largest have circulations to rival daily newspapers.
The largest sector, business to business, covers titles that are rarely sold on bookstands. However, some of these magazines, such as Screen International or Marketing Week, are the national (often the international) publications for their industries.
As well as familiar titles such as Vogue or Radio Times, there are many other specialist consumer magazines you may not have seen such as PC User, Marine Modelling and Gardeners' World. A major growth area is customer magazines and in-house publications, produced by publishers for large companies such as Boots, Sainsbury's or Audi, that are given to customers as part of a loyalty marketing programme.
Magazines offer the chance to get on fast if you've got the talent. It's not unusual to meet an editor or advertising manager with only three years' experience. In all aspects, it's very tough to get a job unless you're a graduate. The degree subject is generally unimportant unless you want to work on a specialist magazine in, say, horticulture or architecture.
However, it's very competitive. Work experience may get you an editorial job but you may have to take a postgraduate course. Starter jobs are typically editorial assistant, junior reporter, staff writer, sub-editor, production assistant, art assistant, sales, marketing, subscriptions or licensing executive.
For a deeper insight into magazines and business media careers visit the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) website.
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