Ruth Reichl Magazine Editing Summary

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When reading Ruth Reichl’s insight about magazine editing, I found myself thinking about my future. Where I want to be and what exactly I want to be doing. I fell in love with magazine journalism a few years ago and I knew that I needed to learn everything I could about the industry. There was one thing that I read that made a lot of sense to me. “The only way to heave a really good magazine is to print the things you want to read and assume that it will find its own readership,” Reichl said. This really made me think about the discourse and do some reevaluation. Most magazines are catered toward a niche community. If you write something that you are proud of and you would pick up if a copy were sitting on a coffee table, then you are doing

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