Magazines are a representative group of print media that are used to inform, entertain, and persuade the public as well as target advertising. Magazines typically focus on a single topic and can be generally classified as general interest magazines or special interest magazines. While magazines have advantages like attractive covers and longer shelf life than newspapers, they also have disadvantages such as higher costs for both readers and advertisers. Overall, print media continues to be an important part of everyday life.

1. PRINT MEDIA
MAGAZINES

2. Introduction
• Print Media is to help students to understand the society in which they live and develop
ideals to change society .
• Print Media can inculcate those ideals in students very effectively .
• It will also help the students to understand the society in which they live.
• A Magazines is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles , generally
financed by advertising ,purchased by readers, or both.
• Magazines are typically published weekly , biweekly, monthly, bimonthly or quarterly, with
a actually published .
• They are often printed in colour on coated paper , and are bound with a soft cover.

3. MAGAZINES
❏The word ‘MAGAZINES’ refers to a collection or storage
location
❏Magazines are other representative group of the printed media
❏Magazines are much more colourful than newspaper
❏Their purpose is exactly same as that of newspaper, to inform,
entertain and persuade the public as well as to offer a means for
targeting advertising

4. MAGAZINES
❏Magazines offers many opportunities to the teachers to organize photograph
activities that could stimulateverbal and written stories
❏Magazines typically focused on a single topic or subject ie, art magazines, car
magazines, news magazines fashion magazines etc.
❏Magazines can be classified as :-
1) General interest magazines (Frontline magazines, India today, The week, Sunday
Times etc..)
2)special interest magazines ( women’s, sports, business, scuba diving etc..)

5. Advantages of magazines
★The cover page of magazines is often attractive.
★The magazines has a longer life compared to newspaper.
★Some magazines are good and attracts lots of new customer hence goods for
advertisement business.
★More attention is paid to advertisement because high reader involvement.

6. Disadvantages of magazines
❖Magazines are expensive compared to newspaper.
❖Less population read magazines compared to newspaper.
❖The advertisement cost is high compared to newspaper.
❖Limited flexibility for the ads placement and format used.

7. Conclusion
• Print Media is always be a part of our everyday lives, there really is no avoiding it.
• While certain forms like printed media may be slowly getting phased out, other
forms of media such as social media are stepping up and filling the void left by the
others.
• Media sources will always have their own opinion and whether we like it or not, that
affects their reporting; it’s simply human nature.
• That leaves us as the consumers of media with the responsibility of sifting through
all of the sources to find what is good reporting or bad reporting.