Balancing text and pictures in magazines
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- How do magazines balance the amount of text and pictures?
- Julie
In magazines, the illustrations and text, the person who decides that is the editor or design or layout people. So basically the decision to do that is not really with the journalist in fact. Yeah, if you look at this here, this page here, which I don’t know, can you see that? Oh ok, the headline hasn’t been chosen by the journalist. That’s been chosen by the sub-editor. The photo often hasn’t been chosen by the journalist, that’s sort of, you know the person who goes and sources that, is the design person. So in magazines and newspapers it’s very factional, there are lots of different people doing all these different kinds of jobs. If design is something that you’re interested in then you should follow that up. I know that when I was at journalism school they encouraged us to, to learn to use a camera really well, just in case … because there are a lot of newspapers still where journalists do go out and take their own photos and things like that. So it’s definitely a good thing to know, to have both of those skills, but normally as a journalist you wouldn’t really have to worry about that stuff too much.