1740: Competition between Ben Franklin and Andrew Bradford to launch first American magazine. Bradford wins by three days.
By the 1830s it was illustrated as well. It published the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne among others. By 1848 was the leading weekly in the USA.
Consumer. Good Housekeeping, Oprah, Cosmo, Playboy. Trade: Women’s Wear Daily, Practical Accountant, Frozen Food Marketing. Have suffered during recession + also online!! Literary: Harpers, The Atlantic. Are literary journals magazines?
Investigative reporting was made famous by the Watergate political scandal of the early 1970s, but it began in the late 1980s.
Investigative reporting was made famous by the Watergate political scandal of the early 1970s, but it began in the late 1980s.