The Early History of Magazines
Magazines develop later than newspapers in the American colonies because..
What is no substantial middle class, widespread literacy, or advanced printing technology?
The role magazines played in social reform at the turn of the twentieth century
What is Yellow Journalism, the rise of ‘muckrakers’, and the ability to cover stories in more depth?
How digital editions of magazines change the format of magazine advertising.
What is they can now offer online advertisements?
The year Helen Gurley Brown became Editor and Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
What is 1965?
An electronic magazine
What is an Ezine?
The reason most of the earliest magazines have so much trouble staying financially solvent.
What is delivery cost, weight, and small circulations?
When and why general-interest magazines became so popular.
What is after the war and throughout the 50s and most prominent because of the usage of Photojournalism?
The four main departments at a typical consumer magazine.
What is Editorial and Production, Advertising and Sales, Production and Technology, Circulation and Distribution?
This triggered the move toward magazine specialization...
What is radio specialization?
The use of photos to document events and people’s lives
What is photojournalism?
A magazine that became national in scope.
What is the Saturday Evening Post?
The reason some of the major general-interest magazines failed in the twentieth century?
What is the change of consumer tastes, rising postal costs, decline in ad revenue, and the rise of television as the preferred medium?
Some of the models for digital distribution of magazines
What are Tablet apps and other netflix-like apps but for magazines?
How magazines serve a democratic society.
What is, they help citizens form a national identity and help educate about politics so people will view themselves as part of a democracy?
The total number of people who come into contact with a single copy of a magazine.
What is pass-along readership?
The french word for magazine
What is Magasin?
The advantages of magazines’ movement to digital formats?
What is a wider audience spectrum, the convenient ability to link in ads, and the decline of postal costs?
The differences between regional and demographic editions.
What is Regional editions are based on geographic locations while demographic editions are targeted towards groups based on occupation, class, and zip code?
How advertising affects what gets published in the editorial side of magazines.
What is controversial content sometimes has difficulty finding its way into print?
Newspapers that feature bizarre human-interest stories, gruesome murder tales, violent accident accounts, unexplained phenomena stories, and malicious celebrity gossip.
What are Supermarket tabloids?
The social impact of the most popular women’s magazines in the nineteenth century.
What is education, work, and property rights?
The benefits of the Postal Act of 1879 to magazines.
What is assigned magazines lower postage rates and put them on an equal footing with newspapers and reduced distribution costs?
Name a major magazine chain.
What is: Time Inc., The Hearst Corporation, Advance/Conde Nast, The Meredith Corporation, and Rodale.
Ways to categorize the magazine industry.
What are consumer magazines, business or trade magazines, and farm magazines?
National magazines whose content is tailored to the interests of different geographic areas?
What are regional editions?