The most common entrance exams are:

• Russian language
• Mathematics (basic level)
• Social studies - a profile subject, at the choice of the university
• Foreign language - at the choice of the university
• History - at the choice of the university

Despite the development of modern information technologies, publishing does not cease to be an interesting and important profession. It is chosen by those who understand the value of paper printed products. And in today's Russia, such a profession remains popular and in demand.

Specialty 42.03.03 "Publishing" opens up wide opportunities for self-realization. It involves active participation in the creation of a new book, but it can also perform other functions in the publishing process. Immersion in the topic will allow you to find out how many specialists are needed at all stages of work on the publication.

Admission conditions

This course involves learning all the necessary skills that are important when working with a word. Therefore, the emphasis is on philology, but at the same time they are also mastering technical disciplines, and Information Technology. Since modern printing is inextricably linked with them. What subjects will be taken upon admission to future bachelors:

• social science (profile exam);
• Russian language;
• history or foreign language.

Future profession

A graduate of the direction is a generalist who has great opportunities for self-realization. He will be able to apply his own skills and acquired knowledge in the formation of the publication, starting from the post of editor or layout designer. Since he will be taught important technical points, the professional will be able to establish publishing processes. But you can choose another path: engage in criticism, research, distribution of printed materials, teaching activities.

Where to apply

The undergraduate program is taught at several universities in Moscow, as well as the best institutes and universities in Russia:

• Russian New University;
• Moscow State University of Printing Ivan Fedorov;
• Moscow State University for the Humanities and Economics;
• Saint Petersburg Technical University the name of Peter the Great;
• Kuban socio-economic university.

Training period

Graduates of the eleventh grade traditionally enter the full-time department: it can be completed in four years. But as an option, other forms of education are also chosen: correspondence, evening, mixed. Then you have to study for five years.

Disciplines included in the course of study

Since the direction being mastered can claim to be a broad-profile one, the list of subjects mastered on the course is quite wide:

Acquired Skills

A specialist with a bachelor's degree will be able to boast of having many competencies:

• editorial activity;
• work on the composition and structure of the future book;
• creation of real proposals for the design of the publication;
• search for the optimal solution for the release of the book: selection of consumables, type of printing;
• control over the design and execution of the publication;
• creating a budget;
• formation of electronic media;
• functions of printers: selection, folding, binding of books;
• layout;
• pre-sale preparation;
• organizing the delivery of publishing goods;
• participation in the organization and conduct of advertising campaigns;
• formation of the assortment of a bookstore and other enterprises working with publishing products;
• the function of an intermediary between the publisher and the author;
• research in the field of reading preferences;
• formation of publishing policy.

Employment prospects by profession

Who can work after graduation:

The level of remuneration directly depends on the place of application of professional forces and skills. The minimum that a graduate can count on is 20 thousand in domestic currency. But choosing an advertising niche or journalistic activity, opening his own publishing house, the graduate significantly raises this bar for himself.

Benefits of a Master's Degree

If there is an opportunity to continue education, the profession can become a life's work that will bring a stable high income. Studying in a master's program is inextricably linked with practice, and this raises the status of a graduate in the eyes of a potential employer. Not to mention the fact that many students still find a worthy place of employment during practical classes.

A graduate with a master's degree can safely teach at a university. He will already be able to cope with a leadership position in organizations and institutions of a different nature. For example, it can be the position of administrator, project manager.

"There are three most sold professions in the world, and I did not think that my daughter would choose one of them!" - Dad said when he heard that I want to become a journalist. Yes, and all the rest of the family, too, were in a slight shock. After all, all my life I was going to go to medical school, and then suddenly.

They persuaded, or rather, dissuaded me from the decision made long and hard, but their successes were almost equal to zero. As a result, I nevertheless entered the journalism department, only with a degree in publishing. What does it change? At first it seemed to me that a lot.

After all, who is a publisher? This is a person or organization that has the right to publishing activities or has received a license. In any case, such a definition future profession I heard in my first year (now I have grown up to the 3rd).

And, for example, in explanatory dictionary Ozhegov said even more simply: "The publisher is the one who publishes the printed work." It's nowhere clearer. But stop! Did I dream about it? And in general, what does a journalist have in common with a publisher?

Has my dream of becoming a tribune of truth and justice sunk into oblivion? Or, better to say, covered herself with a copper basin?

I was terribly upset. Especially when I visited a publishing house and a printing house a couple of times. Just boredom to death! You sit all day and correct materials written by someone else's pen, while you yourself could ... Eh! You can also talk in a publishing house only in a whisper and only when absolutely necessary. It requires complete focus and attention. God forbid you miss any mistake!

And the print shop is even worse. You breathe paint all day long, glue book bindings. Preparing products for printing and publishing. It's hard, but at least it's not forbidden to talk. Please, on any topic. As long as it doesn't get in the way...

In general, I had seen enough of all the charms of my future profession and decided to urgently transfer to the cherished specialty - journalism. I will not describe my painful reflections on the topic "to be or not to be." It is unlikely that anyone is interested. But now I'm already in the 3rd year of the Faculty of Journalism with a degree in Publishing.

Why didn't you transfer? Well, firstly, I realized that you can become a journalist without a special diploma. If you really want. Secondly, I finally saw the merits in the profession of a publisher and editor. There were quite a few of them: if you are an editor or publisher, no one forbids you to become a pen shark. It would be a wish! This specialty gives you several professions at once: publisher, editor, journalist, web designer and even translator. Just choose! When you learn to edit other people's mistakes, you begin to see your own better. You improve yourself, that is.

In general, I learned to respect my profession. And it does not interfere with the realization of my dream.

Discussion

You need to study journalism only in absentia, and at this time you work, work and again ...
I saw such full-timers who write an article for a month ... At a time when I write them in a week, it’s scary to say how many.
As a result, I had no problems with the diploma. By the way, those who study at the publishing house have practice in our editorial office. There is no way to go further than an inept proofreader :) The loss of time is absolute.

Hello, dear author! I didn’t speak out for a long time - I didn’t have time to think it over.
I graduated from the Faculty of Law, although already in the 1st year I understood that this was not my thing. But I didn't know then what was mine. The course at 5 I understood: journalism. Now I am constantly collaborating with two publications and periodically with another one. As the column editor told me in one of them, everyone has unsuccessful articles, and one should not make a tragedy out of this and consider oneself mediocrity. We must draw conclusions and write in accordance with them in the future.

I return to the article. Unfortunately, it cannot be called
good.
1. The topic of your parents' attitude to your future profession at the moment has not been disclosed.
2. It is not clear why you did not enter the "journalism" specialty - either you could not pass the exams, or there were not enough publications for the creative competition, or at some point you faltered and immediately applied for "publishing".
3. "The painful reflections on the topic "to be or not to be", "to be translated or not" would still be better described. This is interesting. This is really important, this is exactly what personal experience worth sharing with others. In vain you kept silent about it.
4. You need more details about why you stayed to study as a publisher. The thesis "you can become a journalist with any diploma" had to be supported either by your own observations (well, maybe even a modest, but still experience of journalistic work), or logical arguments. The same goes for the virtues of being an editor.
Without this (alas, but these ladies are right), the article really draws on a 9-grade essay on the topic "who to be": "because I want and like it!".
And you also need to be able to properly respond to criticism. If the editor makes a remark to you, will you really react in the same way: "I'm not Dostoevsky!" - a?
I note, however, that it is incorrect to compare journalism with fiction.

And the answer to the main question after all did not sound. So why does an author study publishing?

For some reason, it's understandable ... by the way, it's not very clear why a person wanted to go into journalism, but went into publishing. They didn’t take / didn’t get to another place (journalism) / were ashamed because of the “corruption” of the profession?

You can be a journalist doing ... yes, anything, even cleaning toilets, who would argue?

Painful CONSIDERATIONS (i.e. THOUGHTS) on the topic "to be or not to be", "to be translated, not translated", it seems to me that they would be of interest to the reader.

By style. Are simple sentences generally okay? It reminds me of the school essays of a 9th grader who does not like to read (I don’t want to offend, I just have such a 9th grader in my family right now).

It seems to me that words about how the irreconcilable dad now relates to the choice of his daughter would be appropriate.

Girl, dear, get yourself a LiveJournal and write there. And even better - break away from the computer and start living, acquiring life experience, without which there can be no journalist, and it is the presence of which the author distinguishes a good article from another graphomaniac creation.

Girls, let's calm down. Well, the author has not yet grown to be a journalist, well, he will. I was also told in my first year of specialization in "print media journalism" that I did not have a single newspaper publication by the end high school, in journalism, in general, there is nothing to do. And I began to write more or less normally only towards the end of the university. Now my book is out. And in the third year - and you won’t write like that :) Not all of them are early, some just start writing in retirement.

That's it, verbiage, idle talk ... Is this what a competent, real journalist should do? It's not such nonsense. I wrote such notes back in the 9th grade, at a special seminar on journalism. But already in the 3rd year ... What do they teach you there? What kind of university is this? Maybe you really need to transfer to the "media" department or whatever it is at your university? And purposefully learn to write?

Comment on the article "Why am I studying publishing?"

Or does a specialty diploma "literary worker" allow you to work at school? And why don't they know if they are now graduate students? Why am I studying publishing? institute of hospitality, service and tourism on Kibalchicha..

Why am I studying publishing? As a result, I nevertheless entered the journalism department, only with a degree in publishing. The course at 5 I understood: journalism. Now I am constantly collaborating with two publications and ...

Why am I studying publishing? 2. It is not clear why you did not enter the "journalism" specialty - either you could not pass the exams, or publications for creative Documentation and archiving .... does it make sense?

So why does an author study publishing? Why is understandable ... by the way, it is not very clear why a person wanted to go into journalism, but went into publishing. And I began to write more or less normally only towards the end of the university. Now my book is out.

It seemed to me that he had decided on a specialty - sports management. I worked as a fairly high-level manager in the publishing business, but for this I needed ...

Why am I studying publishing? If you are ready to pay for RGAFK, then go there. With weak math in technical university nothing to do, even on management.

This is a profitable business, according to GOST and Word, we will conduct several classes, you will gain experience by working under the guidance of serious specialists. Why am I studying publishing?

Why am I studying publishing? The thesis "you can become a journalist with any diploma" had to be supported either by your own observations (well, maybe even a modest, but still experience of journalistic work), or logical arguments. The same goes for benefits...

I want to go to "Publishing and Editing", but in absentia - it's very expensive. And infa about distance learning they have a website for high school graduates only.

I want to get a second degree in publishing and editing. The only university, as I understand it, in this case is Moscow. state print uni.

Why am I studying publishing? Secondly, I finally saw the merits in the profession of a publisher and editor. I don’t understand where on the VKontakte page (where the link leads) the audio file lies.

2000 - Graduation from the Moscow state university press in the specialty "Publishing and Editing" and the qualification "editor-publisher".

Why am I studying publishing? As a result, I nevertheless entered the journalism department, only with a degree in publishing. I graduated from this most "shameful" faculty at Moscow State University.

The profession of a book publisher has ceased to be described by the word "printer". The book publisher is not the one who prints books, that is, he takes the manuscript and “fills” it into the printing press, and the edition falls out from the other end. It was like that for a long time, but it stopped being like that.

Now the publisher is the one who brings the book to the market, creates and maintains demand for it. In exactly the same way, I will note in parentheses, the profession of the author has changed: the author is not the one who wrote the book. This is the one who wrote the book and presented it to society - this is part of the profession.

The publishing business involves the training of such a specialist who is not only a bibliophile, but understands the market, has a huge outlook, qualities and knowledge of a manager. And at the same time, it focuses not only on literal material profit.

After all, there are things whose value we understand later. Remember, from Tsvetaeva: "My poems, like precious wines, will have their turn ...". The same can be said about books.

Personal qualities

To the necessary personal qualities and abilities of the publisher include sociability, ease of communication, stress resistance, initiative, tact, perseverance, vision of the future and logical thinking ability to negotiate with people of different temperament and social status.

If the publisher does not like to communicate with people, then this profession is not suitable for him, since constant fatigue and stress from communicating with other people will interfere with accepting effective solutions leader.

Education (What do you need to know?)

Students study literature, modern printing, book history, book art, design, marketing, printing technology, and economic disciplines.

Place of work and career

A publisher can be found in a large publishing house that has several lines of work at once. For example, classical, non-fiction or children's literature. Each of them is led by a separate project manager who knows exactly this sector - monitors the activities of competitors and is always aware of new products.

Another segment of the publishing market is the press, where the publisher acts as the head of a separate publication or line of newspapers and magazines, united by thematic or some other principle.
Internet: Site owners are also publishers.

Where to study?

The editor is one of the best options that can satisfy the ambitions of the humanities. But what do you need to know about this position in order to prepare yourself for professional duties in advance? What skills do you need to learn while studying? And how to build your career then?

Let's start with the fact that this is a very responsible profession. An editor is a specialist responsible for preparing material for publication. That is, it is he who will be hit hard if the final version of the article contains errors or false information. Therefore, the editor, like an educator in kindergarten, tirelessly ensures that his wards skillfully do their job.

It should also be noted that there can be several specialists in the same publication. Thus, the editor-in-chief is responsible for creating the main concept, selecting topics for articles and authors. But the art editor deals exclusively with page design, improves the quality of photographs and the color design of the magazine.

Editors classification

Given the above, let's look at what types of editors exist. Indeed, thanks to this information future specialist will be able to decide on a specific direction and focus on its development.

So, at the moment it is known about such varieties of the profession:

• art editor;
• scientific editor;
• technical editor;
• broadcast editor;
• literary editor.

It should also be warned that each direction has its own characteristics. Because of this, it can be quite difficult to move from one category to another.

Where can you study?

This specialty requires a higher education. At the same time, the closer it is to the specifics of the profession, the more likely it is to get such a coveted position. Therefore, if a person is not satisfied with the editorial office of the newspaper, he is counting on something more, then he needs to master one of the following specialties:

• editing;
• publishing;
• literary creativity;
• philology;
• journalism;
• linguistics.

Fortunately, most Russian universities have such departments. Therefore, you should not worry about the fact that you will certainly have to go to the capital for the education of an editor.

What qualities should a good specialist have?

Alas, this job is not for everyone. The editor is a position that requires the presence of certain qualities, without which success cannot be achieved here. Let's look at them in more detail.

Responsibility comes first. Whether it's the editor-in-chief or an ordinary one, he must be able to "keep in check" both his charges and himself. After all, he is the person who is responsible for the quality of the material and the project as a whole.

Therefore, it is quite logical that the editor should have excellent organizational skills. Only in this way will he be able to create the atmosphere necessary for work and competently distribute responsibilities between his subordinates. In addition, he will have to constantly push his colleagues to improve themselves, otherwise they will not be able to grow professionally.

And, of course, endurance. Without it, the editor is nowhere, especially before the delivery of the project. At the same time, you need to be prepared for the fact that you will have to get tired both physically and psychologically. Mountains of untested material, lack of sleep, responsibility for the result of the work of the entire team... And that's not all.

Main responsibilities of an editor

Naturally, it is impossible to predict the whole range of responsibilities, since this is a very multifaceted profession. A magazine editor, for example, is busier than a specialist working for a small newspaper. Therefore, we will have to limit ourselves to only the main functions of the profession, without going deep.

So what does an editor do?

He creates the main one up to the titles of the articles, gives the task to the authors and indicates the deadlines, controls. Analyzes the material received from writers and solves it further fate. If necessary, returns articles for revision, while pointing out errors or inaccuracies. Checks the quality of printed material and makes corrections.

In addition, the editor can participate in all stages of writing articles. He can also train authors, and, if necessary, sends them for advanced training. If we talk about the editor-in-chief, then his duties are even wider. Therefore, often in large publications there is a whole group of specialists who are distributed throughout the organization, and each is responsible for his own area of ​​\u200b\u200bwork.

The newspaper office is the perfect place to start any editor's career. Firstly, here you can get invaluable work experience, and secondly, it is much easier to get a job here than in a glossy magazine. Otherwise, when looking for a job, it is necessary to build on the available vacancies and the requirements for them.

You should also remember that the first time you can work as a freelancer. So, many electronic publications are recruiting editors who are ready to perform their duties remotely. In general, this is a good chance for those who live in a small town with limited opportunities.

Pay and competition

The editor is a profession in which the salary largely depends on the place of work. So, in small newspapers, these specialists receive no more than 20-25 thousand rubles. But popular publications offer amounts much higher. For example, the average salary in Moscow fluctuates between 40-50 thousand rubles.

Now about the competition. If it is quite easy to get a job in small newspapers and electronic publications, then it is much more difficult to get into more prestigious places. Firstly, all ambitious specialists strive to settle down there, and secondly, often the companies themselves toughen the fight for vacancies. And yet, having a good store of knowledge and self-confidence, the editor will never be left without a piece of bread.

If a future student is perfectly familiar with the basics of Russian and other languages, if he can skillfully and competently express his thoughts and positions, and if he wants to improve and develop his abilities in the future, then when choosing a profession, he needs to get acquainted with the professions of publishing. More recently, when there was no worldwide system - the Internet, the representatives of these professions were journalists, editors, publishers, proofreaders, art editors and printers of books and newspapers.
Today, with the advent of the World Wide Web, new and very profitable and successful specialties have appeared - HTML coder, web designer, rewriter, copywriter.

All these professions are diverse in their areas, the tasks of the topic and they can be very diverse. They are united by one thing - this is the mass dissemination of information through print, music and other forms.

When choosing a profession in the field of publishing, it is important to have the following basic qualities:

Knowledge of Russian and foreign languages. The presence of a creative approach in displaying information. The ability to beautifully, competently and correctly express their thoughts.