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1 Fourth Estate • ________ • Infotainment • Media bias • Public relations • Yellow journalism

2 ________

3 Magazines can be distributed through the mail; through sales by newsstands, ________ or other vendors; or through free distribution at selected pick up locations.

4 Reporter • Editor • Columnist • Copy editor • Commentator • Photographer • Presenter • ________ •

5 Current magazines are generally available at bookstores and newsstands, while subscribers can receive them in the ________.

6 Typically, magazines which focus primarily on current events, such as Newsweek or ________, are published weekly or biweekly.

7 News • Writing style • Ethics • Objectivity • Values • Attribution • ________ • Editorial independence • Education • Other topics

8 Although similar to a magazine in some respects, an academic periodical featuring scholarly articles written in a more specialist register is usually called an "________".

9 The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in ________, is considered to have been the first general-interest magazine.

10 ________ • Magazines • News agencies • Broadcast • Online • Photojournalism • Alternative media

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal?
  • the satirical magazine The Georgetown Heckler changed its name from The Georgetown Lampoon after being threatened with a lawsuit by the Harvard Lampoon?
  • the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States?
  • the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine does not display frontal nudity or human genitalia in order not to go against Filipino values?
  • the publisher of Mirror Buzz, a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine, was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover?
  • the work of Kohno Michisei (pictured) was influenced by European art, which he knew almost exclusively from books and magazines?
  • the website of the rock magazine Rock Street Journal has a database of over a thousand South Asian rock bands?
  • the recently defunct Pacific Magazine, a current affairs publication focusing on the Pacific Islands of Oceania, was the region's longest continuously published magazine?
  • the John Cassavetes film Husbands, praised by Time magazine as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by Pauline Kael and other prominent critics?
  • former State Rep. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., once told People magazine that all Louisiana residents needed to be contented was "a pickup and a shotgun"?
  • Ricardo Rangel co-founded Mozambique's first full color magazine Tempo, as a voice of opposition to Portuguese colonial rule?
  • American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
  • magazines like the Southern Bivouac and the Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
  • Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts?
  • a feature story is an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or a news website that is not meant to report breaking news, but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story?
  • as founder and former chairman of Primedia, Bill Reilly built a publishing firm with more than 200 magazines, including American Baby, National Hog Farmer, Chicago and New York?
  • an editor for Kangura magazine was convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting the Rwandan Genocide?
  • magazine publishing company Condé Nast Publications made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Fairchild Publications for US$650 million?