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Topic: do quarterlies pay less salary than monthlies
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| bloggergal | Posted – 1/9/2008 1:14:11 PM | show profile Hello MBers... quick question - does anyone know how quarterly magazine salaries compare to the monthlies? i'm going for an interview for a features ed position with one and not sure what to ask for. do people that work for quarterlies freelance elsewhere? can't imagine what you do with all that time (i'm coming from a daily). Thanks |
| WritingEd | Posted – 1/9/2008 8:45:40 PM | show profile I don't know about salaries, since I have never worked for a quarterly, but I'll bet they will fill your time. Former daily publication reporters and editors who have come to work with me at a monthly have commented early on that they don't know what they'll do with all the time they have. A few months later and they along with everyone else are talking about how there's never enough time to get everything done. With far-out deadlines you tend to think you always have tomorrow to get to something, and then all of a sudden tomorrow is here. And when you publish less often you have more of an obligation to readers to get the complete story by deadline. There's no "so and so couldn't be reached for comment," because really you have no excuse but to chase down sources until you get them. And your duties will likely broaden--if you're used to just writing, you'll probably be both editing and writing, and likely for the magazine and other media. And you'll probably wind up with more administrative duties than you're used to. Then, too, there's the advertiser component that you may not be used to if you're at a newspaper. |
