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Summary: Becoming a magazine writer usually involves studying journalism, reading magazines, getting published in smaller magazines and building a portfolio f clips. Find out how to break into the magazine-writing field with tips from an ivy league English professor in this free video on writing jobs.
David M. Harris has taught English at Vanderbilt University and elsewhere. He has published poetry, essays, short fiction and a novel, and he has worked in book and magazine publishing.read more
"In order to become a magazine writer, you need to know something about journalism. Most magazine writing is journalism. Take a couple of courses, read the newspapers carefully, read magazines carefully. No magazine is going to hire you unless you can demonstrate in advance that you can do the job. Now, sometimes this means starting out as an intern or an editorial assistant, which is basically a typist. The assistant is the person who answers the phones and types and files. It's where I started in publishing. And then sometimes these people will get the chance to do a little writing, and gradually they can build up to become staff writers. If you have a degree in professional writing or journalism, that'll be an advantage. What you really need, though, is clips. Ideally something that's already been published. That's the definition of a clip. It used to be something that was clipped out of a newspaper or a magazine. Nowadays it's just a printout of your original text, usually. You need to show you can do it. So you start writing articles. You find tiny little local magazines and newspapers that will publish your stuff, and then you've got a clip, and you work your way up until eventually you have a portfolio--which is your collection of clips--and you can bring that in to an editor and say "You need a writer. I am a writer. Here's what I can do." Show that you have a point of view, that you're not just doing a junior high school report on the subject, that you can make it all make sense, and with a little bit of luck and an improvement in the job market, you'll be able to get yourself a job as a magazine writer."
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