Exam 9: Magazines in the Age of Specialization

Use the following to answer questions: Matching Match the muckraking magazines and journalists with the target of their best-known exposé. -Lincoln Steffens

Evergreen magazine subscriptions are those that are automatically renewed on the subscriber's credit card.

For many years Reader's Digest was the most popular magazine in the world.

Some of the most influential magazines of the nineteenth century were targeted at women.

Webzines such as Salon and Slate have opened new doors for online journalism.

TV Guide succeeded, in part, because it was readily available at the nation's supermarket checkout lines.

A magazine's rate card lists _____.

Almost all magazines offer 25 to 50 percent discounts from their rate cards to advertisers.

Controlled-circulation magazines are provided to readers at no charge.

Large companies are increasingly beginning to dominate the magazine business.

The New Yorker was the first city magazine aimed at a national upscale audience.

Alternative magazines such as the Progressive and the National Review have historically defined themselves in terms of gender and race.

Which of the following statements about colonial American magazines is true?

What role did magazines play in social reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

President Theodore Roosevelt criticized magazine journalists who exposed corruption in government and business by calling them muckrakers.

Some advertisers and companies have canceled ads when a magazine featured an unflattering or critical article about a company or industry.

Which magazine was the foremost outlet for photojournalism in the mid-twentieth century?

The AARP Bulletin and AARP The Magazine have the largest circulations of any U.S.magazines.

Which of the following is an example of a consumer magazine?

One of the reasons for TV Guide's popularity was that _____.