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The battle with the sales and advertising department

You may think that your career in journalism is the key to free speech. Finally, you have the platform to be able to report on and talk about whatever you like. Right?
Wrong.
Because increasingly, journalists have to pander to the requirements of the sales and advertising departments and whether you like it or not, [...]

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Know the target reader

One of the keys to magazine writing is being able to target to different readers. As any good journalist knows, you must always keep your target reader in mind whenever you are writing a piece for a magazine as this will help to produce a piece that the readers will find interesting.
This is why [...]

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Can you make a living from writing?

A good way of knowing whether you are a talented writer is thinking about whether it comes naturally to you.
If you can sit down and write something within a reasonable amount of time and without struggling and the resultant piece of work is of a good standard, then it’s safe to say that you are [...]

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Magazine writing

A lot of people seem to think that magazine writing is an easy profession. But in order to write features that engage the reader and encourage them to read the entire piece, you need talent, skill and knowledge of this type of writing.
The main thing is to know the angle of your feature before [...]

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Are you a writer too?

Writing is one of those professions that people seem to leap on. If someone asks what you do for a living and you reply by saying you’re a writer, you will find that the majority of the time, they will say something along the lines of: ‘oh right, yeah, I’m thinking of going into writing.’
This [...]

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