Magazine Industry Research.

Photographer

A photographer produces a number of images to a specific audience to the standard that they require. Their main purposes usually can vary between artistic, commercial and editorial and the content can represent anything. Example of products that photographer may work:
· Landscapes
· Magazines Articles
· Railways
· Fashion
· Sports
· Music events
Photographers are normally not known for being just general photographers. A professional photographer would normally specialise in one area, however work activities will vary according to the amount of work a specialised photographer does. Some examples of activities photographers may do are working with the clients to get an idea of the photo’s they are requiring, some photographer may do some research and make preparations for the shoot and finally another example a photographer may work on different locations and see what works well to the clients requirements. Nowadays half of professional photographers are mostly self-employed. An advantage for being a self employed photographer means they are in control of all the work that is produced so therefore if they are working on a photo shoot they then take on the role of a Director and quite possibly be an Editor for the photo’s they take. All the money they make they can keep, this is known as making a profit. A disadvantage however for a self-employed photographer without have an employer the photographer has the job of finding and to develop new clients. Also while without a fixed salary the levels of income are uncertain.





The remaining half would work for a wide range of photography company employers, these usually include
· Creative businesses
· Publishers
· Photography Agencies
With working in a photography company all the money made goes towards the company and is used towards paying the entire employee’s who work for the company.

Salaries for Photographers

Photography is a very competitive job and the result of that means photographers will only have a successful career and a good salary then the photographers needs to put the dedication and have the talent.
The average salary for a Photographer in the UK is around: £22,785.
According to the government’s Bureau of Labour Studies job statistics for photographer held around a rough estimate of 130,000 back in 2002; and around 50% of these were self-employed and on average many more of than for all other occupations.
Statistics for salaried positions for photographers showed that most of them worked for commercial photography studio are, advertising agencies, magazines and newspapers and television companies.

Job Vacancies

https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?newms=hm

From using the link above, I tried looking for job vacancies for photography/photographers and the BBC didn’t have any job vacancies. The only jobs that had going was for in New Media industry was
· Digital Design Executive, Content & Channels Team
· Digital Design Manager, Content & Channels Team
· Interactive Editor, Radio 3/Classical



http://www.the-aop.org/home.asp?s=awards

On this website I was able to find a number of different jobs, these ranged from around: Production Co-ordinator, Studio Manager, and Senior Retoucher.

Press Publishers

Press Publishers is another name for people who are proofreaders when it comes to publishing a magazine or newspaper. Usually they would ensure that all the texts that is published are well written, the grammar is all correct. In the industry, it is known that it is not uncommon for press publishers will work with a number of employee’s at the same time. Some work activities, depending on how experienced the press publishers are and the employee’s activities this usually include; working with I-T based publishing systems, databases, paper manuscripts, disks and even the internet.

Salaries for Press Publishers

For press publishers their salaries vary from how many years they work as a press publisher and how many years experience that they have. 1-4 years their salary is roughly around 35,000-60,000 per year. 5-9 years their salary is from around 35,000- 65,000. For 10-19 years their salary is around 50,000-110,000 and finally for 20 years and over their salary is around 62,000-140,000.

Press Sub Editor

A press sub editor is responsible for the final look of the final copy that is published. This includes making sure that the style, tone and layout. They have to make sure that in doing this that it meets the criteria of the publications house style and whether it suit the target audience its aimed at. The editor work usually involves them processing all of the copies made before it is published to ensure that it reads well and fits together, it the grammar is correct and it is all factually correct. Another job they tend to make sure of is the layout of the story on the page, they write the headings of the stories and if any are needed on the page and also are sometimes design the overall page designs.

Salary for Press Sub Editors

The starting salaries for sub editors range from 17,000-20,000 for local paper and for small magazine companies.
Then 20,000-23,000 for larger regional or national paper companies.
However, salaries can sometimes lower though from the figures above this is because journalism is a popular field and may drive the entry pay down. Salaries for experienced or more senior sub-editors can vary from £25,000 to £50,000. And journalism can sometimes effect this too.