lifestyle magazines

1. Lifestyle
magazines

2. Lifestyle magazine companies
GQ
Cosmopolitan
Women's wealth
Vanity Fair
Glamour
OK!
Country living

3. Codes and
conventions
 Masthead – the title block for the magazine
 Menu – the list of contents inside the magazine
 Pugs – the sticker which can be seen in almost every magazine and is used for promoting
something inside the magazine
 Secondary lead – a preview of an inside article or story
 Sidebar – an additional box next to the main feature of the magazine
 Splash – a main story of the front page, which is accompanied with a headline or a
photograph
 Spread – a story that covers more than one page
 Stand first – a sentence after a headline and before an article begins that 'sells' a feature to a
reader
 Strapline – a subheading below the initial headline
 Tag – the use of a word or a phrase to engage the reader's interest (e.g. sensational, new,
exclusive)

4. Codes and conventions
Box out – a coloured box behind some text, to make the text stand out
Cover line – text that tells us the stories that are in the magazine.
By-line – name of the reporter
Caption – text underneath an image explaining it
Credits – in the form of a beeline the author is credited, photographs
may have the photographers name underneath
Crosshead –a subheading that show in the body of the body the text
and is centered above the column of text
Headline – the main statement, describing the main story

5. The masthead
Strap lines
Colour palettes
Barcode
Date
Main cover line

6. Examples of lifestyle magazines