Chapter 9: The Media

Nie Congcong's sweet period in his new career had just begun, and he was doused by an after-editing meeting.

Editor-in-chief Zhang's words are sincere and objective, the media industry is to eat with ability, I will give you the opportunity, whether you can achieve it depends on yourself.

In the following half a month, Nie Congcong read the magazine day and night, she first read the magazines of her friends in the past three years, basically understood the development path and basic style of the magazine, and then found and read the magazines of similar journals for a year. At that time, the Internet was not developed, and the way to obtain information was magazines, newspapers and television, in order to get more information, Nie Congcong soaked in the library for three or four days. Nie Congcong made two plans for each of the columns he was responsible for and handed them over to Zhao Guangming, director of the editorial department, and the plan was called back that afternoon, and the rejection opinion was that it did not match the age of the reader, and it was too young, so it was redone.

Nie Congcong felt that she had worked hard to complete the plan, and it could be said that she had exhausted all her IQ and talents, and now that she was rejected by the director, she didn't know what to do. This is different from her previous in the hospital, when she was in the hospital, the leader said that you are not right here, and she will tell you that you are right. In the magazine, the leader will tell you a direction at most, and the rest is completely up to you to think, whether it is right or not, or whether it is good or not, it is difficult to say, only when your things move him, he will feel good, so what kind of things can impress him, you don't know, he doesn't know. This feeling made Nie Congcong very devastated, and for the first time, she deeply felt that her IQ and ability were not worthy of her current job.

She was nervous and took the plan to find Poplar, in the magazine, everyone is in competition, and the old editor is unwilling to work the new editor. Bai Yang is the closest editor to Nie Congcong in the editorial department, because whether he is a documentary manuscript or a beautiful article, it is a breeze for him, he has a large number of high-quality authors in his hands, and each issue can support him for half the sky, and the most important thing is that Bai Yang himself can write, especially the documentary manuscript, he is almost the leader of the magazine. Therefore, he doesn't mind what Nie Congcong learns from him, he always has answers to all Nie Congcong's questions.

Bai Yang read Nie Congcong's plan and smiled directly, Nie Congcong, have you read our magazine seriously? For now, our magazine is aimed at women between the ages of 28 and 45. Most women in this age group are married and have children, and our gender column is to promote gender harmony in the family, how can we achieve gender harmony? First, there must be love, is there no love for sexual harmony? There may be, but our magazine promotes universal values; Second, there should be some techniques, these are not to ask you to write the 106 style in bed, but through some small means, to attract the attention of the other person and increase everyone's interest in each other. Third, there are stories, everyone reads magazines for entertainment, one, two, three, dry strips, so that whoever reads it is not interested, you have to add stories and use the method of stories to express. If this column does these three points, it is basically not a big problem, and the rest depends on what kind of content you fill in to make it new......

As soon as she heard the new two words, Nie Congcong's head was about to explode, but she also knew that this was the foundation of the magazine, and it was also the direction that the editor had been working towards. Poplar said proudly, then don't you thank me? Nie Congcong nodded violently, then it doesn't need to be said, I will invite you to dinner at noon tomorrow? Dine? Canteen's. I'm not going. Poplar glared. Nie Congcong smiled, of course not, there is a four-season cottage in the railway bureau community, which is delicious. Bai Yang agreed, and when Nie Congcong left, he added to her, the health column is your old job, but this column is sub-health, and you don't want to do prevention and treatment. Nie Congcong hurriedly said, I know, thank you Master Baiyang, I will definitely do it.

Under the guidance of Bai Yang, Nie Congcong made another version of the column plan and submitted it, and the director was quite satisfied, but he only asked for revisions in some places, and it was passed. At the topic selection meeting, the editor-in-chief also specially praised Nie Congcong. Nie Congcong was very happy, but she didn't dare to show it, the competition between colleagues was so fierce, at this time, at that time, no one could guarantee that what she did would always satisfy the editor-in-chief.

After the column, all that remains is to edit the manuscript, where can I find a better manuscript? This annoyed Nie Congcong.

At that time, computers were not yet popular, not to mention fashionable things like the Internet and QQ, and authors with e-mail addresses were very good. Even if it is a magazine, the computer cannot be done for each person, the digital network is used, and not every computer can access the Internet, most authors submit manuscripts to the journal are still handwritten, and the authors with better economy will print them out and send them to the editor of the magazine.

The director distributed the manuscripts he received to Nie Congcong, Yang Jing and Bai Lin. The envelope of the manuscript has not been opened, and whether there is a good manuscript or not depends on luck. Sometimes, more than a dozen submissions, ten articles are mimeographed manuscripts, this kind of manuscript is basically not original, and there are thousands of copies in one printing, for magazines with original needs, it is simply a pile of waste paper, even so, Nie Congcong is also very serious, in case there is a good one.

It is true that after Nie Congcong read thousands of garbage manuscripts, he saw a computer printout, although it was only a thousand-word prose, but the text was beautiful and the story was profound. It almost does not need to be modified, and it can be used directly. Nie Congcong happily contacted the author Lin Xiaoxue, and after communicating with the author, she found that she was still a member of the local provincial writers' association and often wrote for newspapers, but she had not submitted to magazines, and this was her first time contributing. Nie Congcong introduced her to the magazine's manuscript requirements, asked for her address, and sent her a few sample publications. Later, Lin Xiaoxue has always been a high-quality author of Nie Congcong, one article in each issue, and the quality of the articles is passed, which makes other editors envious, and later Lin Xiaoxue has also become one of the few famous authors in the journal industry.

As an editor, there are many high-quality authors in your hands, so you can live well in the magazine. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of authors, Nie Congcong found the editors he had cooperated with in the past and sent the invitation letter over, not only asking them to write the manuscript, but also asking them to help introduce the author. Good friend Rufeng is the most powerful, she directly wrote a 5,000-word theme plan for Nie Congcong, the content is about spiritual derailment, the manuscript just changed a title, and nothing else moved.

opened the network, Nie Congcong has more and more good authors in his hands, such as Lan Duoduo, An Ning and Liuyan, etc., when she submits the manuscript, she is almost full of confidence, and feels that she can win a big victory in this issue. After the final review meeting, Nie Congcong immediately wilted. She just passed her two columns, an emotional planning and a beautiful essay by Lin Xiaoxue. The performance was also so bad that he collapsed, although Bai Yang repeatedly comforted Nie Congcong, you just came, this is already good, when I first came, I didn't have a manuscript for two months. Although Baiyang said the truth, it was extremely pale to Nie Congcong, because Baiyang didn't know how much effort Nie Congcong had put into this issue. This kind of competition is much more fierce than in the hospital, so Nie Congcong has to be more cautious.

After working for a month, Nie Congcong had the first QQ in his life, his name was October Lily, his first email address was Yahoo's, he registered his own account under the literary website Banyan Tree, went to a community forum called Tianya, and met a media person called News Cleaner in the media Jianghu section, they communicated through the forum to send messages, and they couldn't say ten sentences a day, but through this forum, they knew that the media in the country was a family, and as long as they reported which media it was, they could communicate without any hindrance.

Nie Congcong also thoroughly realized that hobbies and careers are completely different things this month, no matter how unforgettable the hobbies, after becoming a career, they will be defeated by the pursuit of excellence in the profession, there is no best, only a better goal.