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Published November 2005 in Cleveland Magazine with Global Shopping article on Ten Thousand Villages
CLEVELAND MAGAZINE
(Great Lakes Publishing)
Location: Cleveland, OH
Position: Editorial Intern
Fall 2005
www.clevelandmagazine.com
Working with Cleveland Magazine was a great opportunity to evaluate my writing skills and aptitude for magazine style writing. The internship is focused on fact-checking but provides several opportunities to write for various editors and sections. I have three favorite assignments from Cleveland Magazine.
1. Lakeview Cemetery Photo shot: It was a miserable, rainy day. Perfect for taking pictures in a cemetery. Working with a friend I and a guide I toured the cemetery and walked away with several amazing shoots. Four of them were published as part of How Cleveland Are You? quiz in the December 2005 issue.
2. Holiday Shopping: I was bored one day and went for a walk, only to discover Ten Thousand Villages a block from the internship. Always ready with a camera I took a few pictures and ran back to the office to pitch the story to an editor. He bought the idea and also assigned me to take more photos to go along with the story.
3. Thai Restaurant: I am not a food critic. But I offered to try a new style of writing. This piece was difficult and required a lot of editing. But in the process I received the best advice from the Editor that I keep taped to my desktop. “Don’t write for the love of it, write to tell the reader what they need to know”.
I learned working for a magazine is a balancing act. Creative writing is not a liscence to blab on and on. The reader still want the essentials: who, what, where, why, when and how, delivered with style.
Fact-checking was a eye-opener to the most common mistakes writers make and editors hate. I am a better self-editor after interning with Cleveland Magazine, but there is much more room for improvement that will come with experience.EaseEase
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Taken on assignment from Cleveland Magazine’s How Cleveland Are You? Dec. 2005 issue. One among several photos published as part of the identify this location quiz.
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August 20, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Hello:
I stumbled onto your portfolio page while researching an editorial contact at Cleveland Magazine. I work as an Account Coordinator at Stevens Baron Communications in Cleveland doing copy writing etc. I really appreciated your insight after working as an intern at Cleveland Mag. especially the quote: “Don’t write for the love of it, write to tell the reader what they need to know”. I have found that to be very true in my first year out here after collge.
Best of Luck to your future writing adventures.
I’d like to leave you with another quote:
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
JR
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