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Magazines
Chapter 5
© 2009, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
• History• Magazines in the Digital Age• Defining Features of Magazines• Organization of the Magazine Industry• Magazine Ownership• Producing the Magazine• Economics• Feedback
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HISTORY
• Magazines have had a long history in the US
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The Colonial period
• “Magazine”: warehouse or depository– Variety of opinion pieces, facts, human
interest stories
• Strong political bias
• Written to educated urban audience
• Encouraged literate and artistic expression
• Unified the colonies
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After the Revolution
• Continue to target educate elite audience
• Present mix of topical and political articles
• Roots of modern news magazine
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The Penny-Press Era
• 1820s-1860s -- Magazines appealed to mass audience
• Parallel strategies of penny press newspapers
• Target the middle class
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The Magazine Boom
• 1860-1900 – many new magazines appeared– More available money– Improved printing techniques– Postal Act of 1879
• Special mailing rates for magazines
– Magazines could reach national mass audience
• Muckrakers – investigative reporting
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Between the Wars
• Changing lifestyles influenced magazine development
• Three magazine types emerged– Digest– News weeklies– Pictorial magazine
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The Postwar Period
• Publishers continued to specialize to satisfy readers who had– Increased leisure time– Liberalized views– New interests in urban lifestyles
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Contemporary Magazines
• Challenges to magazine industry– Declines in single-copy sales– Sweepstakes competitions have nearly
disappeared– National do-not-call list– Cable TV and Internet
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MAGAZINES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
• Magazines are still learning how to use the Internet
• Generating revenue from the Internet– Ad-supported web-only titles– Repackaged print content– Charging for access to archives– E-commerce
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Replica Editions
• Replica editions are not online editions
• Replica editions mimic the print magazine
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Mobile Magazines
• Magazines can be read on laptops, cell phones, PDAs
• Magazine podcasts are available
• Challenges with mobile magazine delivery– How long will readers stay with mobile
editions?– What about payment
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User-Generated Content
• Publishers are cautiously exploring user-generated content– Want to retain control of content– Not sure how to generate revenue– Could be way to build audience base
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DEFINING FEATURES OF MAGAZINES
• Specialized audiences
• In tune with social, economic, cultural trends
• Can influence social trends
• Convenient portable format
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ORGANIZATION OF THE MAGAZINE INDUSTRY
• The magazine industry can be classified by the types of content presented in the magazine, or by the three traditional components of manufacturing.
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Content Categories
• General consumer magazines
• Business publications
• Custom magazines
• Literary reviews and academic journals
• Newsletters
• Public relations magazines
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Functional Categories
• Production
• Distribution– Paid circulation– Controlled circulation
• Retail
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MAGAZINE OWNERSHIP
• The magazine industry is dominated by large corporations, many with holdings in other media.
• The five leading magazine publishers are Time Warner, Advance Publications, Hearst Corporation, Meredith Corporation, and Reader’s Digest Association
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PRODUCING THE MAGAZINE
A variety of people work together to create a magazine
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Departments and Staff
• Publisher
• Circulation Department
• Advertising Department
• Production Department
• Editorial Department
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Publishing the Magazine
• Plan for upcoming issues
• Convert ideas into articles, pictures, illustrations
• Create dummy – conceptual plan or blueprint of final publication
• Assign work schedules and deadlines
• Begin the work
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ECONOMICS
• Revenue sources– Subscriptions– Single-copy sales– Advertising– Ancillary services
• The magazine industry is facing tough times
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FEEDBACK
• Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC)– Paid circulation– Rate base
• Business Publication Audit (BPA)• Mediamark Research, Inc (MRI)
– Primary audience– Pass-along audience
• Online readership– Audit Bureau of Circulation– Nielsen/NetRatings
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Magazine Audiences
• 85% of US adults read at least one magazine per month
• Adults look through an average of 10 magazines per month
• Readers more educated and more affluent than non-readers
• Readers tend to be joiners