1. Mass
Media
Magazines, the
Early History

2. What magazines do you read?

3. Magazines are regularly
published storehouses of
information
 Magazine – “a publication that is issued
periodically, usually bound in a paper
cover (…) frequently specialising in a
particular subject or area, as hobbies,
news or sport” (Dictionary Reference)
 The English word “magazine” was derived
from the Arabic word makhazin meaning
“storehouses”.

4. In the beginning
 Review was the first English language
magazine published in 1704 in London.
 Saturday Evening Post - the first successful
magazine in the U.S. (1821-1969)
 Photojournalism had been brought to the
public in 1936 – Life magazine
 1899 – first publication of one of the most
influential magazines raising cultural
awareness and understanding – National
Geographic

5. Types of magazines
1) Consumer – general reading
audience, e.g. sport, fashion,
What other types 2)
news and teen gossip.
Trade and Professional –
targeting people working in
of magazines do trades, businesses and
professional fields.
you know?

6. Magazines in Movies
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG0x
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