Job roles in magazine industry

Job roles in the magazine industry
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Photo editor

· A photo editor works closely with the editor and editor in chief so that when they edit the pictures they change them to exactly what the editors want them to look like for the specific articles.
· Photo editors also oversee the photography that appears in a magazine. They also decide what photographer to hire for what type of shoot they want for that particular article.
· Photo editors very rarely take pictures for their magazines, instead photo editor’s work with the editors to decide what the photos will be and how they will complement the text.
· Even though most photo editors don’t take the pictures they still need to know a lot about photography itself and have many contacts in that industry.

Photographer

· Many photographers are freelance, meaning they work for themselves and go from job to job with different companies. They work on one project then move onto the next project. Or could even work on multiple projects at once.
· They get given an artist, model etc to work with for the magazine/newspaper article and try to get the best out of the person they are working with.
· They would get paid for the a days work instead of how many magazines are sold, so it’s better for photographers to work with various magazines at once to get the best money.

Editor in chief
· An editor in chief is a publication's primary editor, having the final say and responsibility for the majority of the operations.
· The editor in chief has many roles in the magazine industry. These include proofreading all the articles and they also design the layout of the magazine/newspaper. Furthermore, they decide what stories are put in the issue and what writer does them.
· Other things that the editor in chief does are to supervise the employees, and to encourage the salespeople to sell more adverts. However, many editors-in-chief take an entire page of space to introduce the issue. So the readers of the magazine know what the issue will be about and what the editor wants the reader to get out of the magazine.