The presence of more than 95,000 magazines in the United States and Canada is testimony to the importance, variety and impact of this medium of communication. As a magazine journalism student, you will be studying at one of the few such specific programs in the country. Your course work will prepare you to participate fully in current and future publication developments, including on-line services. While most students select magazine work from an interest in writing, the sequence seeks to instill additional interest and expertise in layout and design, advertising and circulation, management, marketing and other areas. Careful and creative professional writing is the focus of the majority of courses in the sequence.
Courses emphasize writing, editing and production.
You will work on the laboratory magazine, Southeast Ohio , a regional magazine serving 23 counties in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. In addition, you may participate in internship programs sponsored by the Magazine Publishers Association, American Business Press, Writer's Digest and individual publishing companies throughout the nation. Graduates of the magazine sequence work for major business, trade, association and consumer magaiznes worldwide, as well as corporated and institutional magazines. In addition, they find rewarding positions with newspaper feature sections, book publishers, subscription newsletter publishers, catalog publishers, videotext producers and other segments of journalism. Readers, however, still rely on large and small newspapers for solid, in-depth coverage of local, national and world events, as well as entertaining features.