Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Magazine- The Big Issue

Key Terms

Circulation= number of copies a magazine sells.

Readership= the total number of people likely to read it.

Mass Audience= large scale audience.

Subscription= where a reader pays fora set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower 
price and receives them by post.

Plug= text that plug's a feature that will appear inside.

Puff= a story that is given prominence soon the cover.

Cover Star= star featured on the cover.

Anchorage Text- text that anchors the main image and gives it context/meaning. 

Banner= text that runs across the lower section of the cover.

Key Information 

-If magazines  didn't have ads, the cover price could be 3/4 times bigger.
-Advertising accounts for 70% of magazine income.
-Small circulation is more dependent on advertising that large circulation.

The Big Issue Notes

  • It started in 1991 
  • Written by professionals-John Bird and Gordon Roddick
  • Vendors (homeless people) buy it for £1.50 to sell for £2.50.
  • It is a social enterprise 
  • Also found in Australia, Japan, South Korea etc.
  • Gives homeless people contact with society
  • Sold over 200,000,000 copies in Britain since it started
  • It has a profound social effect
  • Funded by donations and grants.

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