Tomorrow's News, Tomorrow's Journalists

Fashion Journalism as it can be

I’ve always been attracted to the magazine world. Ever since I was young, I would save old issues of magazines like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, just so I could go back and reread articles written by such great writers as Dominick Dunne and Julia Reed. I was (and still am, at times) a complete magazine nerd. Ask me anything about Graydon Carter, Glenda Bailey or Anna Wintour and I am all over it.

That was the world I wanted to enter when I was younger, until I discovered the much more accessible and modern world of online journalism. Now, I’m hooked. However, there are still echoes of my interest in magazines lingering overhead.

Magazines get a lot of things wrong. Take for example, any fashion magazine web site that you find today. None of them are able to accurately display the stories, photography, or resources that are depicted within their pages. I’ve previously blogged about the Bombay Flying Company. All things considered, I am a BFC groupie. I think what they do with photography and flash could revolutionize the way fashion photography can be depicted online. No longer would you have to pick up a magazine to see the life-changing photography of Annie Lebovitz or Patrick Demarchelier.

My ideal journalism job would be to work for a fashion or lifestyle publication where I can implement these technologies to make viewing, learning and sharing information on these topics much easier.

If I were feeling bold, I would even start a web site like this myself, and throw my hat into the dangerous web start-up arena. EEK!

Who knows what I’ll end up doing or where I’ll end up. I just know that whatever it is, I’d love to be in New York and working in online journalism in whatever capacity I can.

Emily Kostic is a junior journalism major at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. She currently blogs at http://journalism3.wordpress.com.