When looking into organisations in which I felt were right to produce/ or distribute my magazine I struggled to find the right sort of company. With in my search for research on institutions I did find Hearst Magazines UK, I thought it was a good company with a variety of magazine in which were popular and well known, also my mixed gender target audience fitted in nicely as the magazine produced were from house keeping, to men's health. But it was mostly targeted at women and I did think that my magazine, although targeted at both genders, would find to be more understandable and attractive to women, so I felt the target audience gender range was spot on with this institution. But I felt there was a lack in the age range of my target audience as well as the genre of music.
So continuing on with my search I came across an America site called NAMM. The site clearly showed me that there was keen hunger for others to love music and to introduce music to young ages such as my young adult target audience and feed them the knowledge to make decisions and work hard to maybe achieve music talents. Now, I know that my magazine isn't a 'how to do' guide on becoming a famous singer but my morals of the magazine was still to inspire, and even looking at the logo for NAMM you can see they aim to inspire. NAMM's mission is to strengthen the music products industry and promote the pleasures and benefits of making music. I would like to think that my magazine would count as the product industry. Having an organisation that has such high levels of hope would mean that my magazine would fall into the success of it all. 
But obviously, you also want an organisation in which you feel can be more relateable to your music choice and artists and chart music. Especially as my magazine is mainly targeted at the UK audience, NAMM would not connect well with that. But I thought the research and ideas from the organisation can develop and give me a better perspective of what I would like for my magazine.
Although in itself BBC Radio 1 is not a industry looking to produce and invest in music magazine, I would still like to hope that BBC Radio1 would like to be apart of my magazine and maybe in the future, develop to a partnership. Radio 1 is a huge influence over me and the creation of my music magazine, looking at the chart hits and the latest chart toppers and who's new and who's old etc. BBC Radio 1 is known for 'the new music' and that is exactly how I am trying to represent my music magazine, as being the music magazine that is up to date with all the latest and greatest on ' the new music'. With a magazine you need to keep with in a set of rules and these are the regulation rules. While creating my magazine I keep in with the regulations rules by keeping to major rules in which I could of broken if unaware of the regulations. Such as, Harassment: Journalists must not engage in intimidation, harassment or persistent pursuit. They must not persist in questioning, telephoning, pursuing or photographing individuals. Editors must ensure these principles are observed by those working for them and to not use information from other sources around them.
When interviewing my featured artists I could of harassed them, by putting pressure on them for answering the question as well as a persisting with question as well as not allowing them there own privacy if asked a question they were not happy to answer. This also links in with the regulation rule of Harassment: Journalists must not engage in intimidation, harassment or persistent pursuit. They must not persist in questioning, telephoning, pursuing or photographing individuals. Editors must ensure these principles are observed by those working for them and to not use information from other sources around them.
With both privacy and harassment regulations I made sure that when questioning and photographing my models and featured artists that I had full permission from them as well as being aware of their own private life while interviewing and allowing a space of comfort and a space of feeling welcome and not too forward or too much for those who were photographed and interviewed. This was very important for me when I was producing and creating my music magazine.
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