HistoryLife Magazine pitch presentation

I think that my verbal presentation went relatively well. I did not use any sort of scripts or notes as prompts during my presentation, which had positive and negative results. I was not 100% sure what I was going to say for each slide and I only had a rough idea of what I was going to talk about, which lead to a certain amount of uncertainty which may have effected the confidence with which I presented.

However, I think not having any notes or scripts was also somewhat beneficial, as I was not tempted to simply read off a piece of paper and not make any eye contact. I also think that my tone was a little more natural since I was speaking from my mind.

Some of the questions I was asked included questions regarding the type of information I would be presenting, and how I would be presenting it. For example, I was asked if I would be presenting history in a fairly dull, factual, history-book style or if I'd be taking a different approach, and I replied that I would be presenting information that was not often spoken about and was not that well known, including interesting historical facts, or the de-bunking of popularly held historical opinions that were not always accurate.

Another question I was asked was whether current events would be discussed in my magazine, to which I replied that I would talk about how current affairs were effected by the events of history, as well as making comparisons between the modern day events and society and the events and society of history, drawing parallels between them.

I was also asked wether each issue of my magazine would be released focusing solely on one historical era and region, to which I replied that each magazine would have a major focus and a major article about one historical era, region, or subject, but that there would be other sections in the magazine about other eras and regions, so as to best appeal to a larger audience with varied interests.

I was also asked when my magazine would release, to which I replied that I would most likely release on a monthly or bi-monthly (once every two months) basis, so there was a large enough gap between each issue release to compile enough interesting information to make up a magazine's worth of content.