Fun facts from the field of Journalism

1.) The word magazine comes from the Arabic word makhazin, which means storehouse or warehouse.
2.)The three types of magazines are: consumer (the ones you see in stores...), trade (the specialized ones like Pizza Today that only niche trades want), and organization (only people in the organization get theses...like National Geographic).
3.) Henry Luce's Life was America's first full-fledged modern picture magazine. It was published weekly at a cover price of 10cents and premiered on November 23, 1936 with a cover photo of Fort Peck Dam in Montana.
4.) Reader's Digest carried no advertising for its first 34 years.
5.) Between 1772-1783, only 3 magazines were published in America: The Royal American Magazine, Pennsylvania Magazine, and the United States Magazine. Now thousands are published each year.
6.) Eleanor Roosevelt wrote an article for Negro magazine, which boosted sales from 50,000 to 100,000.
7.) Time put Richard Nixon on the cover 14 times during the unraveling of the Watergate plot.
8.) Magazines usually have a chance of continuing to exist if they can make it for three years.
9.) The editorial formula means tying all the elements of a magazine together logically and coherently in a readable, usable package.
10.)The three reasons for a magazine's success are: a highly focused editorial policy, a clearly defined formula, and a thorough understanding of and connection with the audience.
11.) The most important postal date in conjunction with the modern day magazine is 1879. Special second-class mailing privileges were granted to magazines meaning publishers could mail their magazines coast to coast at the same low cost as newspapers.
12.) Magazines have specialization of content and audience so specific that it includes different psychographics, demographics, national and international, regional and local branches.
13.) The first ad in an American magazine appeared the same year the magazine medium appeared in this country: 1741.
14.) Some famous writers for The Atlantic Monthly since its beginning in 1857 include: John Steinbeck, Martin Luther King Jr, and Emily Dickinson.