Magazine Writing - Paperback

by Christopher D. Benson (Author), Charles F. Whitaker (Author)

What does it take to launch a career writing for magazines? In this comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to magazine writing, a team of experienced magazine writers and editors takes students from initial story pitches through final production, emphasizing that success in magazines is one part creative effort and one part marketing savvy. Magazine Writing offers time-tested rules for good writing alongside 21^st-century tools for digital storytelling, examples of published work, conversations with successful magazine contributors and bloggers, and interviews with editors on what they're looking for give students all the skills and practical insights they need to jumpstart a magazine writing career.

Author Biography

Christopher D. Benson is Associate Professor of Journalism and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written for Chicago, Savoy, Jet, and The Crisis magazines, and has contributed to The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and Reader's Digest. He has worked as Features Editor and Washington Editor for Ebony magazine.

Charles F. Whitaker is Helen Gurley Brown Magazine Research Chair at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. He was a senior editor at Ebony magazine and a reporter at the Miami Herald and the Louisville Times (Ky.), and he has written for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago magazine, Jet magazine, Essence magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Saturday Evening Post, Chicago Parent magazine, and Folio.