About
Magazine Journalism is on hold until we can organise resources and time to launch the site properly. Thanks for dropping by!
This is what it will be…
Journalism and its industry is changing. The web, mobile, mashups and print-on-demand are celebrating the ‘end of mass’. But does that also mean the end for newspapers and print magazines. Maybe. Sometimes, the heralds are not always right–just think of vinyl. But newspapers at least aren’t that cool. Whether digital remains the add-on to print, or, more likely, that print will soon be the add-on to digital, either way, we think there’s a future for magazines in all their forms.
And journalism in higher education is going through its own growing pains. According to Mark Hanna, In 1994/95 there were 415 British full-time students on degree-level journalism programmes. By 2004/5 the total was 2035. (Journalism Practice, Oct 2007). The way people enter the industry is undergoing a transformation.
MagazineJournalism.co.uk is for the bright new wave of web and print magazine journalists who are taking on the challenge: to take journalism at all levels alive and kicking into the future.
It’s a site that will keep up to date with the industry as it develops; and importantly, it will showcase the best new people and the best new magazines (print, online, mobile, quick’n'dirty) coming through in the magazine industry. It will focus on the UK, but not only when there’s global examples we can learn from.
The site is fully independent of any funding or support of any industry or academic body. The site is also in its earliest, pre-beta, form, and we’re building it from scratch, so be easy on us.
A number of the people behind the magazine are associated with other magazines, industry bodies and academic institutions, particularly the Magazine Programme at Sunderland University. But we’re decent, honest people, and vigorously independent. The main thing for us is… what’s top class when it comes to the magazine journalism?
