Magazines and Newspapers

While there are your typical American’s who wake up every day to read the morning newspaper while sipping there Starbucks. Everyone doesn’t read the newspaper on a daily basis some prefer to read magazines issue for issue. Magazines and newspapers are great forms of communications throughout the world but the question still remains," how are they similar"? Both magazines and newspapers talk about issues such as political, sports, science, entertainment, and weather. They both serve the public in tremendous ways with updated information. Magazines and newspapers are often referred to as street newspapers throughout the homeless community. While "Wikipedia" states, "Street newspapers (or street papers) are newspapers or magazines sold by homeless or poor individuals and produced mainly to support these populations"(Wikipedia"). Street papers allow homeless individual to have a potential employment opportunity. Magazines and newspapers often differ in many ways. Newspapers use excellent grammar and punctuation, while magazines use more relaxed grammar and punctuation. Newspapers are also short and informative and straight to the point. Magazines are longer and more detailed than newspapers. Cording to stumblerz.com, "statistics claim that readers read only 1/3rd of the content of the newspapers but most of the magazines focusing on specialized areas that are evergreen topics are retained, reread and placed in lobbies irrespective of their publishing period"(stumblerz.com). Magazines also have more creativity than newspapers whether it’s in the layout or ad placement. During an interview with Mecca Scarver she explains how newspapers talk about real world events, while magazines target the world of entertainment. She later states newspapers news are more in depth about events that occur nation, state, and city wide. Magazines are on more of a national scale than newspapers. I would prefer to work for a magazine rather than a newspaper. Magazines target topics that people are interested in and newspapers target a vast variety of everything. I also believe the magazine industry will offer more opportunities of networking with individuals of higher power than newspapers would. Magazines will often allow me to more elusive with my stories than a newspaper jog would. In closing, magazines and newspapers are still great ways of communication while both may target different things they both serve the public in amazing ways.

Source:   Wikipedia, “Street Newspaper”

                  www.Stublerz.com, “Difference between Newspapers and Magazines”

                   Interview, “Mecca Scarver” sophomore, Shelton State Community College

Joshua Thomas

MC 101