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General interest magazines
Characteristics
- The main purpose is to provide information for an educated, but
non-specialist audience, of interested lay readers. No background
knowledge or expertise is assumed.
- Articles usually provide a broad coverage of topics of current
interest.
- Articles are written by journalists, freelance writers or staff
of the magazine.
- Publications are usually published by commercial enterprises,
though some are published by professional organizations.
Examples
- North & South
- Listener
- National Geographic
- The Economist
- Far Eastern Economic Review
- Scientific American
- Newsweek
- The New Yorker
- New Statesman and Society
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