In the Fall of 2010 my Computer-Aid Publishing class took on the task of making our own magazine. The project took little over a month and caused the class quite a few late nights but we were able to pull it together and finish it.
Here is the link for the magazine, Reterik.
The link for the magazine project's website.
Print Version
My interview with Richard Babcock
When I first contacted Richard Babcock, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Magazine, about interviewing him, I didn't tell him that it was for a class project. What I did tell him was that I was curious about his profession and that I was interested in a job like his. But when we talked on the phone I could no longer hold back the fact that I lied to him to get him to do the interview with me. So after introducing myself and before conducting the interview, I told him the truth about the purpose of the interview—that I needed it for a class project.
Babcock has been a professional Writer since 1975 and has been at the Chicago Magazine for 19 years. He majored in History at Dartmouth and attended Michigan Law School.
Reterik: How did you end up at your job?
RB: I started my career in New Jersey writing for a newspaper. I then helped found a law magazine in New York City. Then I worked for another magazine in New York City. After working there for eleven years I was hired by the Chicago Magazine and I have been there for nineteen years.
Reterik: Do you feel that your magazine is different compared to other magazines such as Times or Newsweek because you only aim for a certain audience?
RB The magazine is divided into two formal parts: service articles that contain information on the best and top summer fun articles and shows how consumers can get more out the region that they live in. The other part of the magazine is made up of narrative stories that features people’s lives in the Chicago Area.
Reterik: Do you think that having a free website has opened the magazine to other readers that you wouldn’t have normally gotten?
RB: Yes. I feel that people who visit the website are people who would normally visit the website anyway. And the people who read the printed version are people who prefer the printed version. Sometimes they do crossover but we do not have any real proof that they do so.
