MAGAZINE EDITING AND PRODUCTION

MATRIC NO: 13/30/0384

NAME: Bisiriyu Idris Eniola

COURSE CODE:  MAC 223

COURSE TITLE: MAGAZINE EDITING AND PRODUCTION

QUESTION:

In not more than two pages(times new roman) 12 point 1.15 space. Examine historical development of magazine all over the world with a special focus on Nigeria. Include reference.

ANSWER:

Magazine published throughout the world, find their way onto our major city newsstands racks and back stores, or they come through the mail for the subscription price. In ethnic periodicals is greater than in other communities. These magazines bring a new voice to our culture. A new way of looking at similar issues. So how do American scholars use these periodical in their research? the purpose of this paper is to survey the literature as to the types of metrology used in magazine.

Relative theory use, and suggest a direction for further magazine research.

Historically, there have been two approaches to the study of magazines in terms of form as physical commodities, and the second approach defines magazines as vehicles for ideas, understanding and reader service. The first approach is often forund in our trade publications, the seond is found among our scholars, for the latter often view magazines as agent of socialization and as media for dissemination of popular culture.

If then magazines are seen as reflective of culture, studies should also mirroe that culture. What may be logically presumed is not what my survey suggest that these studies do not provide scholarly information on magazines that is consistent with current norms of our culture. The question then is what types of studies have been performed using international magazines, and what if any are their importance to advancing scholarship in magazine research.

Historical development of magazine special focus on Nigeria with references.

In past years, Magazine Publication in Nigeria used to place emphasis of the information they were distributing, not necessarily the aesthetic quality, from the mid-80’s to 90’s, magazines publication could sometimes be difficult to produce due to the unavailability of advanced computer technology. At that time in Nigeria was news magazines like TSM (The Sunday magazine) published by the late May Ellen, News watch by the late Dele Giwa, and tell which was started by a group of people from News watch. Also popular in the late 80’s and the early 90’s were some soft sell magazines like Prime people and the Lifestyle true strong magazines such as Hints and Hearts, which were published by Dr kachikwu and chief Godwin respectively.

Not all these magazines were industry-based , but rather careered to many demographics. For instance, Prime people appealed largely to woman because of its report on people of high society.

Of all the magazines that were published them, only a handful are still in circulation such as tell, News watch and hints. These Magazines have some turbulences in form of Government oppression (as in the cases of Tell and News watch) Economic downturn and challenges of then-emerging digital technology but they still stayed true to their cases.

REFERENCE

Copyright 1994 Communication institute for online scholarship.