Features
Case study: diagnosing a fictional magazine renewal decline
Fictional magazine renewal case tracing a misleading dashboard through address, payment, access, survey, and editorial evidence to tested operational changes.
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Review Desk
Side-by-side work on magazine content, held to the same conditions each time.
Maintenance
Magazine issue, subscription, and audience review checklist
Magazine issue review checklist for editorial delivery, circulation, subscriptions, digital use, service, renewals, research, privacy, decisions, and follow-up.
Guides
How to build a useful magazine reader survey
Magazine reader survey method for defining decisions, selecting respondents, writing and testing questions, analyzing results, reporting limits, and taking action.
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Magazine audience and subscription guide
A magazine audience and subscription guide to reader research, the subscriber journey, circulation measures, issue reviews, privacy, and editorial decisions.
Features
Case study: rebuilding a fictional inaccessible digital issue
Fictional digital magazine case tracing inaccessible PDF and viewer failures through triage, structured HTML and EPUB rebuilds, testing, release, and prevention.
Maintenance
Planning a digital magazine accessibility checklist
Plan a digital magazine accessibility checklist for scope, format-specific checks, testing tools, screen readers, release records, and barrier reporting.
Guides
How to build an accessible digital magazine article
Build an accessible digital magazine article from manuscript to web, EPUB or tagged PDF, using named standards, validators and repeatable reader tests.
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Digital magazine accessibility guide: production practices
This digital magazine accessibility guide covers format choices, structure, images, media, navigation, hands-on testing, and maintaining access information.
Features
Case study: repairing a fictional magazine print failure
Fictional magazine print failure case tracing a paper substitution, wrong spine, show-through, gutter loss, black registration, recovery, and process changes.
Maintenance
Magazine prepress and print handoff checklist
Magazine prepress checklist for job specifications, pages, images, fonts, color, bleed, PDF export, proof approval, file delivery, and printer confirmation.
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How to prepare and proof magazine files for a printer
Magazine file preparation method for checking specifications, images, fonts, color, bleed, PDF export, preflight, proofs, corrections, and final handoff.
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Magazine print production guide to proofs and press approval
A magazine print production guide to printer handoff, file checks, proofing, press approval, delivery, and keeping an issue's production record.
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Magazine corrections: fixing a wrong claim about materials
Magazine corrections for a wrong claim about materials: verify the evidence, fix every version, publish a dated notice and prevent the next error.
Features
Case study: clearing a fictional archival photograph for a magazine
A fictional archival photo runs through item identity, rights research, caption correction and a rejected crop before the team swaps in a cleared replacement.
Maintenance
Magazine photo clearance checklist for editorial teams
Use this magazine photo clearance checklist to track source records, usage rights, credits, caption checks, accessibility, production, and approvals.
Rules
Freelance Magazine Rates in US Cities Compared: New York, Chicago, Austin
How freelance magazine writing rates differ across New York, Chicago and Austin, and what editorial budgets, rights terms and cost of living do to per-word fees.
Rules
Selling magazine back issues: what you may legally resell
Selling magazine back issues in the US: what the first sale doctrine lets you resell, when scans need permission, and how marketplace sales tax applies.
Rules
Selling US Magazine Back Issues to Canadian Readers: Customs, GST/HST and Bilingual Labels
Shipping US magazine back issues to Canada: customs forms CN 22 and CN 23, GST/HST threshold, carrier choices, bilingual labels and Canada Periodical Fund rules.
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How to write and verify magazine photo captions
Photo caption method for identifying subjects, describing action, adding verified context, handling dates and locations, recording credits, rights, and alt text.
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Magazine photo editing: a practical guide from selection to proof
Magazine photo editing runs from the commissioning brief through each retouch to the final proof, and every step leaves a record you can defend.
Features
Case study: redesigning a fictional magazine feature for print and web
A fictional quarterly rebuilds one 12-page feature: six-column grid, reset body type, captions as components, and a web edition that reflows.
Maintenance
Magazine design review checklist for print and digital editions
Magazine design review checklist for hierarchy, grids, type, contrast, images, captions, tables, ads, navigation, reflow, accessibility, print proofs, and release.
Rules
Defamation Law for Magazine Editors: Reporting Safeguards
Defamation law for magazine editors calls for careful sourcing, clear corrections, retained reporting records, and legal review in the production schedule.
Rules
Belfast magazine publishing under IPSO, Ofcom and Northern Ireland rules
Belfast magazine publishing sits under IPSO, Ofcom and Northern Ireland legislation; here is how local titles handle complaints, corrections and compliance.
Guides
How to build a flexible magazine layout system
A magazine layout system is a kit of grids, type roles and exception rules that lets a team place any issue's content fast while keeping every page consistent.
Rules
3 duties the Equality Act places on UK digital magazine publishers
Equality Act magazine accessibility means three clear duties for UK digital publishers: reasonable adjustments, non-discriminatory content, and accessible design.
Rules
How IPSO and the Editors' Code apply to magazine editorial decisions in Britain
A guide to how IPSO and the Editors' Code affect magazine editorial decisions, covering accuracy, privacy, corrections, right of reply, and production checks.
Guides
Magazine design, layout, and typography: a practical guide
Magazine design, layout, and typography come together through grids, type scales, and proof rounds, and every issue needs its own tested system before press.
Guides
Magazine Fact-Checking: Source, Date and Disclosure Checks
Magazine fact-checking starts with a claim file, dated source records, disclosure checks, named verification tools, and a post-layout correction route.
Features
Case study: fact-checking a fictional magazine data claim
A fictional magazine catches a survey claim that used the wrong denominator, then rewrites the headline, chart and caption to match what the data supports.
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How Magazine Editors Keep a Case Study Record Straight
A case study record for magazine editors: how to log sources, image credits, sponsor disclosures and corrections so any later editor can verify a published claim.
Features
Case study: restructuring a fictional magazine feature
Fictional feature revision case where an editor diagnoses flat chronology, maps evidence, rebuilds sections, checks scenes, cuts repetition, and finds an ending.
Features
Feature commissioning case study: scope change and the law
This feature commissioning case study follows a fictional assignment through a lost site and a scope change, set against New York's Freelance Isn't Free Act.
Features
Case study: planning a fictional city-data magazine issue
A fictional 72-page city-data magazine issue shows how one editor trades a delayed data feature for a backup story, and what that decision costs the team.
Features
Case study: a fictional magazine issue through production
A fictional 64-page quarterly issue follows one story from commissioning brief to proof, showing where late changes are caught and who signs them off.
Guides
How to build a magazine flatplan
Learn how to build a magazine flatplan: lock trim size and page count, place fixed pages and booked ads, assign stories, track status and control late moves.
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How to build a magazine workflow for commissioning briefs, editing and handoffs
Learn how to build a magazine workflow: interview staff, inventory content paths, write a commissioning brief, define editorial handoffs and test one issue.
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How to report, build, and verify scenes in a magazine feature
Report a feature scene from a written record of time, place, action, dialogue and viewpoint, then verify every factual sentence before it goes to press.
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How to fact-check an article claim by claim
How to fact-check an article: number each claim, trace consequential lines to primary records, and decide what the evidence supports before publication.
Maintenance
Feature reporting and drafting checklist for magazine teams
Feature reporting and drafting checklist for focus, source range, timelines, scenes, claims, structure, transitions, voice, fairness, fact-checking, and endings.
Guides
Feature writing: a practical guide from reporting to ending
Feature writing guide covering focus, reporting, scenes, context, structure, voice, transitions, evidence, revision, headlines, captions, and endings.
Maintenance
Magazine commissioning checklist for editors and contributors
Magazine commissioning checklist for pitch focus, reader fit, reporting, scope, deliverables, fees, expenses, dates, revisions, rights, and records.
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Magazine copy editing: a practical guide to clean, accurate copy
Magazine copy editing guide covering scope, accuracy questions, clarity, consistency, quotations, numbers, names, style, display copy, queries, and proofs.
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Magazine editorial calendars and issue planning: a guide
Magazine editorial calendar guide for issue themes, reader needs, story mix, owners, reporting dates, flatplans, dependencies, contingencies, and review.
Maintenance
Magazine editorial release checklist: what to confirm before an issue ships
Magazine release checklist for scope, evidence, edits, conflicts, rights, captions, advertising labels, design proofs, approvals, publication, and corrections.
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Magazine editorial workflow: a practical guide
Magazine editorial workflow guide covering issue purpose, assignments, reporting, structural edits, fact checks, copy, design, proofs, release, and corrections.
Maintenance
Magazine Issue Planning Checklist: Page Budget Math
Use this magazine issue planning checklist to subtract ad pages, front matter, and inserts, test ad creep, and reconcile the editorial page budget.
Guides
Magazine pitching and commissioning: a practical guide
A magazine pitch sells one story an editor can verify, budget and schedule, and a commission confirms that freelance assignment in a written contract.
Maintenance
Prepublication accuracy checklist: numbers and statistics
Prepublication accuracy checks for numbers: trace each figure to its source, fix units and denominators, read margins of error and recheck headline figures.
Guides
How to write a clear magazine contributor brief
Contributor brief method for defining reader purpose, scope, format, evidence, sources, voice, visuals, deadlines, revisions, fees, expenses, rights, and approvals.