Magazines

Part IV

The Top Magazines,

The top 10 U.S. magazines are listed below.

TOP 10 U.S. MAGAZINES
Rank	Magazine	Average In Millions
1	ARRP - Bulletin + Magazine	48.8
2	Reader's Digest	8.2
3	Costco Connection	7.9
4	Better Homes and Gardens	7.7
5	Food & Family	7.0
6	National Geographic	5.0
7	Good Housekeeping	4.7
8	Woman's Day	3.9
9	Family Circle	3.9
10	Westways	3.8
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulation.

The chart below lists 12 key periods in the history of magazines.

1741	First Magazine Published in America
1800s	Rapid magazine growth due to increased literacy and decline in postage rates for magazines
1893	McLure's magazine starts "muckraking" in mass circulation magazines
1922	Time becomes first weekly newsmagazine
1936	Life becomes first picture magazine; launches photojournalism
1941-1945	Life graphically documents the progress of World War II with weekly photos
1950s	Television results in major drop in magazine ad revenue and circulation
1969	Saturday Evening Post, which was one of the first and most successful general interest magazines, ceases publication
1970	Specialized magazines start a boom in niche magazines that continues today
1972	Life magazine stops publication as a monthly; Ms magazine launched
1990s	Magazines begin publishing on the Internet
2000s	Zines (Internet magazines) published by thousands of home-based publishers

And finally, here are Internet links to a few popular magazines and resources:

Slate Magazine	People Magazine	Ziff-Davis Magazines
U.S News and World Report	Pathfinder (single-stop access to many publications)	Miller Freeman Magazines
Salon	Hotwired	PC Magazine
Ebony	Business Week	Reader's Digest

This concludes the Film, Radio, TV, Internet, Book, Newspaper, and Magazine sections of the Mass Media Cybercourse.

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