Inside Fortune Magazine
Phil Wahba
November 13th we took a trip to Fortune Magazine. The surrounding area was beautiful. A very executive area. I was excited for what they had in store for us.
I went into Fortune knowing little to nothing about the magazine business. I had a few questions I could ask but other than that I never spent more than five minutes thinking about how magazines are created.
Phil Wahba took us into an area which had parts of magazines on the wall for editing purposes. It was like a scene from the movie 13 Going on 30. I was now in the center of a magazine business that I knew nothing about but I would quickly find out what everything was about.
Something about the realness of it all kept me fascinated. Although I take a lot of JOU class I am actually a media management major so I felt far behind my other classmates who had worked an internship in that area or just had better knowledge on how magazines are published.
I knew magazines had different people to work on different things but I never knew how many people it had to go through to be published.
There are many different jobs that each person has and every single one is important. There are photographers, photo editors, writers, editors, researchers and design teams. There is so much more that goes into a magazine that when reading one or looking through pages you would not think how much time is spent doing the pages.
I came out learning a lot more than I originally planned to and for that I am so thankful.
