Guest Speaker, Brendan & Rebecca Matthews, WED magazine

Rebecca Matthews and Brendan told University College Falmouth’s BA(Hons) Journalism students that If you can make it into publishing you can make it into anything.

Matthews said: “A lot of the study’s I looked at predicted that magazine publishing was a bit like a pie, it was going to get smaller and smaller segments.”

Matthews and Brendan own WED magazine, a magazine based in Cornwall which specialises in weddings. Brendan said: “I didn’t grow up and think I’m going to work in the Wedding industry.”

Brendan studied public engineering at college and went onto university to  study it further, however he dropped out and ended up going into marketing and advertising. “I ended up going into advertising and marketing which I didn’t really know what it was about, but I was 20 years old, it kind of just flew from there I ended getting with the right company and right people.” Brendan said.

“If you are interested in working in magazines and journalism you must realise that the advertising funds most of the magazine you read or most of the newspapers you read.” Brendan said.

Matthews studied at Falmouth where she did a post graduate diploma in professional writing and then went into magazine publishing, in which herself and Brendan created Movie Magic, a magazine based in 
Cornwall for local cinemas which they later sold and created WED magazine.

WED magazine is the online wedding magazine in Cornwall. Matthews said: “If you are getting married in Cornwall, then essentially you will have to read this magazine.”