FINISHED.

The last few weeks have been very busy for the year 12 media class. All the hard work is beginning to pay off though as the 'almost finished' covers below show.
Remember each group also has a BLOG dedicated to their production so check them out and have a read of their articles.









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More magazine debates.

Click here for a CBBC debate that took place in 2004.

Click here for A BBC report about 'Lads Mags' from 2006.

Geoff Campbell, the acting managing director of Bauer publishing's mobile phone division, has been appointed managing director of the company's men's lifestyle wing, publishers of FHM, Zoo and Arena.Read more here.

DW

Teen -male market

I notice from the Magazine Blogs that some of you are considering the Teen- male market.
As with all the ideas you have make sure you have completed research into the market you are hoping to enter.

In 2004 a magazine called Sorted was launched into that market ...it lasted four months. Read some more about Sorted here .

Another useful link to have a look at comes via York College. Check this page out.

DW

(P.S CLICK THE TITLE 'Teen -male market' for more very useful stuff from York college.)

Magazine ABC figures for second half 2007.

The ABC figures were released a couple of weeks ago.You must make use of the data in your research. However I am not giving you the link. :( I am sure you can find it.

However here are some articles worth reading as part of your research.
The first one is from the BRANDREPUBLIC site and is about the Teen mag sales for 2007. You may well have to sign up as a user of the site to access the article. Teen mag sales 2007 Article here.

The second article is form SKY NEWS and looks at the drop in sales of Lad's mags. Find it here.

This last one is from THISISMONEY.COM

Find
it here.

DW

What type of magazine will you construct?

Unvarnished versus airbrushed


"Don't get sniffy about gossip magazines. When it comes to attitudes towards women, the affectionate fun they poke at imperfect starlets beats the servile deference of the upmarket glossies every time"... says Julie Burchill in the Guardian. Read the full article by clicking here.

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Magazines

Good luck to all of you involved in exams at the moment. Remember DW is starting back with The magazine coursework element. There are already a number of useful links and posts on this blog relating to the task. This is a coursework element so you will need to know your stuff if you are to produce a convincing product.

Click here for a digest of all the Magazine industry related posts from this blog.

Click here for some interesting links from Nick Lacey. Be advised that these links refer specificaly to Magazine and gender.

If you need even more background reading then you could click here..this will show you all the year 13 magazine industry posts.

p.s keep your blogs blogging.

DW