Magazine Magic: Why Publication Writers are Still Relevant

So take a minute and imagine a world with no magazine articles. None at all. Not your go to op eds online, or favorite fiction stories in the New Yorker. Not your sexcapades in Cosmo or the future of jellyfish in National Geographic. Just imagine if they had never been. If Margaret Sanger never started The Birth Control Review, or Rolling Stone had never been created. If online publications like Nautilus hadn’t been thought up. The world would feel incomplete. Someone, someone, would have to drum up some sort of medium or outlet to express real stories in journalistic fiction tones sooner or later because something would be missing.

The world needs magazine writers because this kind of writing brings a whole new type of writing to the table. No one else writes like magazine writers do. It’s its own genre, it’s own entity and without it, a whole style of writing would be lost. People are starting to gravitate away from physical magazines and are being driven more to online magazines, and others are saying magazine writing is fading away—the truth is that online magazines and paper magazines are in a different format, but they have the same type of content.

Magazine writing is a special kind of writing because it meshes together several different writing qualities, all of which create such a unique writing style. Sometimes publications in article form can’t be expanded into novels or shortened into a series of tweets; sometimes it shouldn’t be expanded into novels or shortened into tweets. It walks the thin line between fiction and nonfiction, with all the qualities of a story telling a real truth. No other style of writing does that.