The BSA are looking for a new editing team for Audacity magazine. Could it be something that your clinical, research or academic group could take on?
The Brighton team are ready to handover the Audacity magazine to the new editing team by the end of the 2025.
What does it involve?
- Identifying, editing and proofing content
- Splitting the team into editorial sub-teams looking after each section of Audacity
- The magazine design and all the setting is done by an external company
Who can get involved?
- A range of people, from trainees and assistant audiologists to service leads.
- Individuals who are able to get involved in something different and develop new skills for their continuing professional development
- The team can vary between editions if there are staffing changes
What’s the time commitment?
It’s difficult to put an exact figure on the time it takes for each edition. There are small peaks of work at different stages: when starting each edition – thinking about content and sending out emails; then again when receiving articles and performing initial editing; and then again towards the end of the process proof reading articles as they come back from the design team. We don’t need to have any specific face to face meetings or lengthy group conversations All-in-all we’re talking about hours rather than weeks of work for each edition.
What support will we have?
As mentioned, an external company sort out all the magazine de-sign and online publication. We upload final articles to them as Word docs and they format and lay out the magazine. Once we’ve signed off the final proof of the magazine, they go on to sort the digital launch and distribution. Fitwise also support Audacity by engaging with other organisations and companies to secure adverts for each edition.
Is it worth it?
Previous Audacity teams have said “yes, definitely”. You need a named individual to organise everyone, be a point of contact and keep track of who is doing what, where things are up to and prepared to chase things at times. However, the sense of achievement when seeing the finished edition is well worth it, which is a view shared by the whole team.
To express interest and find out more please contact bsa@thebsa.co.uk
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