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A Comparison of the Editorial Practices of Religious Magazines with Editorial Practices Described in Magazine Textbooks

This study sought to determine the demographics of the managing editors of the 111 religious magazines listed in the 1981 edition of Writer's Market and the similarity of those magazines' editorial practices to editorial practices described in magazine textbooks. The sixty-four managing editors who answered the questionnaire tended to be college-educated, to say their chief motivation for working on a religious magazine was serving God and man and to be satisfied with their work. Twenty-five per cent of the managing editors in the study had undergraduate majors or master's degrees in journalism. The magazines' self-reported editorial practices in such areas as copy handling, proofreading, layout and design were similar to those described in magazine textbooks.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663150
Date08 1900
CreatorsHensley, Jeff Lane
ContributorsStarr, Douglas P., Busby, Roy Kidder
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 91 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Hensley, Jeff Lane, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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