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'Magnificent
Magforum'-
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of Westminister Journalism website
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Books
about magazines
Resources organised in sections:
Books: listed
alphabetically by author
Resources: magazines, libraries,
etc
Book publishers
Web links:
sites on magazines and journalism (separate page)
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Books
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- Angeletti, N, and Oliva, A,
Magazines That Make History: Their origins, development and influence,
University Press of Florida, 2004.
Two Argentinian journalists discuss eight magazines they consider to
be among the most successful in the west: Time, Der Spiegel, Life,
Paris Match, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, ¡Hola!
and People
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- Blackwell, L,
The End of Print: The grafik design of David Carson,
2nd edition,
Laurence King, 2000.
Views on Carson are divided but Beach Culture, Raygun
and Blah, Blah (launch)
were influential.
David Carson Design
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- Crowley, D,
Magazine Covers,
Mitchell Beazley, 2003
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- Davis, A,
Magazine Journalism Today,
Focal, 1988
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- Glover, S (ed),
Secrets of the Press: Journalists on journalism, Penguin, 1999.
Glover was one of the founders of the Independent newspaper and
editor of the Independent on Sunday. Chapters written by some
of best names in journalism
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- Gough-Yates, A,
Understanding Women's Magazines
Routledge, 2002.
Academic analysis of women's market; focus on 1988-2000
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- Dian Hanson
The History of Girly Magazines: 1900-1969
Taschen (November 2006)
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- Jackson, P, Stevenson, N, and Brooks, K
Making Sense of Men's Magazines
Polity Press, 2001
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- Johnson, S, and Prijatel, P
The Magazine From Cover to Cover: Inside a dynamic industry
McGraw-Hill, 1999
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- Jeremy Leslie
Issues: New Magazine Design
Laurence King, 2000
Leslie is group creative director at customer magazine publisher John
Brown Citrus. He won Designer of the Year in Business & Professional
Magazines in the 2004 PPA awards and Designer of the Year in the 2005
APA awards for M-Real.
He runs the Magculture
website.
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- Jenny McKay
The Magazines Handbook,
Routledge, 2000
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- John Morrish
Magazine Editing
Routledge 2003 2nd edn
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The
Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States of America 1880-1960 |
- David Reed
The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States (1880-1960),
British Library, 1997.
Very good academic study; full of detail and highly referenced
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- Tim Southwell
Getting Away with It: The inside story of Loaded,
Ebury, 1998.
View of the early Loaded years by its then deputy editor. He
later set up Golf Punk publisher KYN
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- Steve Taylor & Neville Brody
100 Years of Magazine Covers
Black Dog Publishing (27 Oct 2006)
Highly illustrated book divided into themed chapters, on fashion and
women's magazines, photo-journalism, music magazines and underground
publications. Individual covers are discussed as well as the importance
of titles and publishing houses.
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- John Wharton
Managing Magazine Publishing,
Blueprint, 1992.
Out of print but very good on the publishing side. More trade-based
than consumer magazines
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- British Library
has excellent sections on the history of newspapers, comics, and music
and film magazines
- St Bride's Printing
Library traces the roots of printing and publishing back 500 years
(William Caxton's apprentice Wynkyn de Worde was buried in St Bride's
Church)
- Media
Week trade paper has searchable archive
- Press
Gazette weekly trade paper for journalists. Searchable archive
- Folio:
trade title for the US magazine industry
- Magazine
World quarterly magazine of the FIPP
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Book
publishers
Focal
Press photography/imaging, journalism, graphics, animation, the
web and writing
Laurence
King design and typography
Routledge
has journalism and media studies lists
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