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Developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, fact-checking, and proofreading compared
Editing stages compared across developmental, line, copy, fact, legal, sensitivity, production, and proofreading work for magazine articles.
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Planning Desk
Timelines, dependencies and the order that keeps magazine publishing and editorial craft from stalling.
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Magazine planning tools compared: editorial calendar, flatplan, backlog and schedule
Magazine planning tools compared across idea backlogs, editorial calendars, issue lineups, flatplans, production schedules, status boards, and review records.
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Magazine editing stages compared: structure, facts, copy, and proof
Magazine editing stages compared across developmental editing, structural revision, fact-checking, copy editing, design review, proofreading, and release.
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Magazine feature structures compared: seven useful story shapes
Magazine feature structures compared across chronology, scene and context, five boxes, hourglass, parallel tracks, question-led inquiry, and modular sections.
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Pitch, contributor brief, assignment letter, and contract compared
Contributor documents compared across pitches, briefs, assignment letters, contracts, statements of work, change records, invoices, and corrections.