The History of the Magazine Industry

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This paper states that the "Saturday Evening Post" was the first successful magazine in the United States, first published in 1821, and continued as a weekly publication until 1969, after which it appeared sporadically. The author points out that, by 2002, news magazines began to move away from hard news and to shift their focus toward more feature (soft news) articles because, by the time people got these magazines, they were already familiar with news events from watching 24-hour, cable news channels. The paper explains the use of the Internet by hard copy magazines, but stresses that, to date, most of the experiments with subscription-based Internet magazines have not been successful.

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"The "National Geographic" is a sponsored publication, like "Modern Maturity," "American Legion" and numerous publications that would appear later. The magazine is "free" as part of an organizational membership. The National Geographic Society uses proceeds from the magazine to pursue cultural and wildlife research and to produce their famous documentary films. Over the years, the "Graphic" has had notable" firsts." In 1911, it featured a 17-page, eight-foot foldout panorama of the Canadian Rockies. To mark the magazines 100th anniversary the cover featured a three-dimensional photograph (hologram), the first ever published in a mass-audience magazine."

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