Jean Hansen Advertorial writer Publishing is an ideal career for self-starters who can meet deadlines on a consistent basis. Career opportunities in publishing can be found in a newspaper or magazine. Jobs in a daily newspaper publishing company, such as The Sioux City Journal, can range from newspaper carriers to corporate executives.
Several departments help put out the paper.
Sales representatives, who have regular accounts, visit with clients to find out what they want their ad to say, how they want it to look and when they want to run it in the paper. Then, the salespeople take the information to the art or composing department. Graphic artists in the art department design ads and covers to advertising supplements. The composing department types ads that require copy only and lays out the paper when they receive dummy sheets from the news-editorial department. Sometimes, ads are shifted between the two departments.