CAREERS IN WRITING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING

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In these positions you may work for:

• a newspaper
• a general circulation magazine
• a trade, technical, or professional newspaper or magazine
• agricultural magazines
• radio stations
• TV stations
• cable systems
• book publishers
• university presses
• the federal government

Possible job titles include:

assignment editor assistant editor associate editor author associate news director book editor bureau chief bureau reporter city editor columnist continuity writer copy editor copy writer correspondent critic desk assistant editorial writer electronic publishing specialist external publications editor freelance reporter

ghostwriter indexer internal publications editor journalist lyricist managing editor news director news editor news writer playwright program proposals manger publications editor researcher script writer speechwriter stringer syndicated columnist technical editor technical writer wire editor

Possible sources for job openings include:

• A database of book producers open to the members of the American Book Producers Association;
• Regional chapters of the Society for technical Communication provide job listings, as well as an electronic bulletin board of listings;
• Snapshot, a journal published by the Society of National Association Publications includes job listings.

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