What is a magazine?

What is a magazine?

A magazine is a publication which is issued on a periodical basis, this publication is usually bound in a paper cover and usually contains articles, gossip, advice, stories and poems by a plethora of different authors who write these articles for the magazines. Most of the time a magazine will be specific to a certain hobby, genre or sport. This is due to the fact that a magazine would be classed as a miniature newspaper if it was to cover the plethora of genres and topics that a newspaper does copy and as a result of this, they have no choice but to specify in specific areas. Also, not all of the information that a magazine contains is of a true nature as they contain gossip, opinions and predictions as well as stories which may have nothing to back it up. In other words, a magazine is often either on a particular subject or if it is not for a certain subject then the magazine will most likely be directed at a particular readership ('a woman's weekly magazine').

My magazine:

The magazine I plan to produce is a music magazine and to be precise and rap music magazine. My reason for choosing this genre of music is that I am highly interested in this genre of music and also there is not a magazine currently on the market (in the UK especially) which covers or aims to cover the music and content that I am going to include in my magazine. The magazine I am going to create will be one which provides a community for the readers as there are gossip columns and outfit ideas but the major aspect of this magazine which will supply a sense of community is the deliver and display pages. These pages will be where people send in videos, images and stories which relate to the magazine and they can see this page full of these so that people can look at peoples interests. There isn't a single magazine published in the UK which has the sole focus of rap music (a successful one anyway). Therefore, if I was to publish this magazine, then there would be a large audience of people who would interested in purchasing due to the fact that this music genre has a large fan base who haven't got access to anything like this.