| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 出版學研究所 === 91 === This research is employed and weighted in the methods of paper investigation, documentation, and deep interview to analyze the role of thirty editors currently working in six travel magazines on general sale in Taiwan. The main purpose is to understand the role and importance of editors in travel magazines through actual investigation. Simultaneously, the result of the research can provide the publishing circles more knowledge in interviewing and editing of travel magazines.
This research is from population background, career pattern, magazine organization, and outer environment aspects to be the basic background data to see observations and influences of the role of editors in travel magazines. Role performance, role expectation, and role location are the three parts to be used to explore the role of career. Statistic of paper investigation is based on descriptive statistics. Through paper investigation, documentation, and deep interview, there are several findings of the research in the following:
1.Population background: Most editors in Taiwan’s travel magazine are un-marriage females majoring in mass media or relative majors in the university. Average age is 32-33. Most were born in Taipei without religions. In addition, most of their parents were graduated from junior or senior high schools. The influence of parents’ position on them is slight.
2.Career pattern: The first position for most editors in travel magazines after graduating from schools is to work for a magazine house. In a career transition, they don’t have much experience and spend less time on other fields. Also, most of them are engaged in their own professions before current jobs. Magazines houses of sightseeing, tour, finance, economics, industry and business are most popular jobs they used to work for. The standard of promotion in a magazine house is usually like this: an editor-a senior editor and an executive-a chief editor or a continuous senior editor-a vice general editor or a general editor. Work experience, competence, and recommendation are three main elements of promotion. Put it to another way, the system of a magazine house and the characteristic of editing are two special important reasons to cause a promotion of a magazine house.
3.Role performance, role expectation, and role location: In each variable, personal experiences, executive’s opinions, and the trend of popular fashions have most influences on role performance. Besides, editors’ best friends are related to publishing, mass media, or culture and education government work. They keep close relationship with coworkers. Also, most editors of travel magazines often collect popular information related to travel. The most finding of role expectation is that the influence and evaluation of editing on a society population are from mass media and actually the convincement of editing is limited. In addition, although editors of travel magazines and reporters of travel line are in charge of different task, they have the same nature work.
According to the result and limitation of the research, there are several related suggestions in the future study and profession.Future researchers can seek other type of magazines, other editors, and non-profit travel magazine organizations. Besides that, they can build a professional model, tabulation, and use a “single-case inquisition” to search a related theme. Lastly, the profession should be award of pre-career training and sharing resources.
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