Special interest magazine
Special interest magazines are magazines aimed at readers with a particular area of interest. In Germany, they form the most important group of magazines with 23% of the approximately 22,000 titles published.
Demarcation
You are the one to distinguish compared to magazines , since they do not apply to a broad, but in a particularly interested in a topic readers, on the other hand, compared to magazines , since they lack the occupational context generally. In some cases, however, special-interest magazines are also listed as a subgroup of the general-interest magazines.
A subgroup is made up of very special interest magazines that deal with a specific topic for a specific target group .
The umbrella term is special interest journalism . It is sometimes used synonymously with departmental journalism .
subjects
Many special-interest magazines deal with topics such as sports, travel, cars, culture, living, technology, lifestyle, often with certain specialist areas within these areas.
Examples
Further examples can be found under the category: consumer magazine .
literature
- Markus Kaiser (Ed.): Special Interest. Departmental journalism: concepts, training, practice. Econ Journalistische Praxis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-430-20145-2 , website with further information
- Claudia Mast (Ed.): ABC of Journalism. A guide to editorial work (Practical Journalism; Vol. 1). 7th edition KVK Verlag, Konstanz 1994, ISBN 3-88295-218-0 .
- Klaus Merten : Introduction to Communication Studies (Current Media and Communication Research; Vol. 1, Part 1). Lit Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-89473-592-9 .
- Nina Rolf: Special Interest Magazines. Lit, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2434-9 .