COMM 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: The Saturday Evening Post, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Photojournalism
31 Mar 2016
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Indian treaties, public education and the end of colonialism: the first colonial magazines appeared in philadelphia in 1741. Publications married visual language to the printed word, which allowed magazines to become a mass medium. In 1902, mcclure"s magazine touched off an investigative era in magazine. 2. reporting with a series of probing stories. High-quality photos gave magazines a selling advantage over magazines that did not use photography: saturday evening post. At the conclusion of the 19th century, it had a circulation of 10,000. It was remade by cyrus curtis and by the 1920s, it reached 2 million in circulation: reader"s digest. Was the most widely circulated general interest magazine during this period. Had inexpensive production costs, low price, and popular pocket-size format: time. Assigned reporter-researcher teams to cover stories while a rewrite editor would put the article in narrative form with an interpretive point of view. Faced challenges from other magazines and the internet: life.
