text: i want to know all about making a magazine?   what exactly are you interested in knowing?   i work for a magazine publishing company. we have about fourteen magazines and growing!!!   in a nutshell, you have the editorial dept who write the stories, the ad sales dept who sell ads which go in the magazines, and the art dept who lay out the whole issue in quark or indesign computer program.there are many people involved in producing the final product (magazine) which you see in the bookstores and newsstands.