The Editor In Chief

Packed with specific how-tos, examples and illustrations, The Editor in Chief vividly presents the guiding principles of editorial management. Authors Patterson and Patterson combine their extensive publishing and management expertise to update and enrich this best selling text, providing help and insight to future and present journalists working in the editorial department of a magazine.

New to this edition is a chapter on one of the most popular and fastest growing areas of magazine publishing - online publishing. Readers will learn about e-zines, and online editions of printing magazines:

* Launching

* Funding

* Organizing a staff

* Increasing readership

Aimed at students interested in careers as magazine editors and at novice working editors seeking to produce better magazines, The Editor in Chief, 2nd Edition prepares budding professionals for the arduous, but rewarding, task of magazine management

Benton Patterson (former associate editor of The Saturday Evening Post) and Coleman Patterson (Kelley College of Business) combine their publishing and management expertise in this text for those working in the editorial department of a magazine, particularly those functioning as the editor in chief. The first edition (1997) focused on traditional, print magazine; in addition, the second edition addresses the contemporary phenomenon of online publishing. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Benton Rain Patterson was formerly an associate editor of The Saturday Evening Post, an articles editor for The New York Times Magazine, editor of Dominion magazine and managing editor of Guideposts magazine. He is emeritus associate professor of journalism at the University of Florida in Gainesville and author of the book Write to Be Read. Coleman E.P. Patterson is associate dean of the Kelley College of Business and associate professor of management at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas