Journalism??

Question

Does anybody have information in journalism. Mainly publishing and starting a magazine. It would really help if you gave me information or a website that tells me something about journalism or making a magazine or publishing.

Answer 1

you need a target audience; you need to decide whether you'll be getting paid by advertising, or subscriptions/newstand sales, or both (as most magazines are); you need to show advertising agencies your target audience and why your magazine should get their advertising $$$; to do that, you'll need at least a sample issue to show alongside your numbers, but you'll probably need to have published several issues to show them you're not a one-night wonder; you'll need content, preferably written by people who know something about your target audience, but also by people who have a message/product/service for your target audience; you'll need relationships with distributors (to get on the magazine rack) or a mailing list, and to get big ad $$ you'll need an audit of your circulation. You'll need a designer or at least someone to layout the pages. And you'll either need a printer and mailing house willing to give you lots of credit to start with, or a big pot of cash :-)
www.paidcontent.org is interesting for in-depth info about the publishing biz. Also look for Media, Media Week or something with a similar title (depending where you live) on the newsstand.
good luck!

Answer 2

Those questions have long, in-depth answers that may take you four years of college at a well respected journalism school to learn. It isn't possible to give you an answer that is brief and still useful.

You can look at the web site for Folio, a magazine about magazine publishing, at www.foliomag.com