MI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Photojournalism, Henry Fox Talbot, Halftone
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First: review: 1704-1713, actually not rlly a magazine. Just like a gun, you store information like you store ammunition: monthly digest for news and commentary. First 2 magazines- 1740: american magazine- andrew bradford. Lasted 3 months: general magazine- benjamin franklin. Difficulties in starting magazines: very small population in us (> 1 mill, bad roads, poor mail system. If postmen didn"t want to deliver magazines, they wouldn"t: authors. Never more than 3 magazines at a time between 1741 and 94 bc of the difficulties. In the 19nth century there was a raid increase in magazines. Firsst national magazine: only part on test from this section. General content: current events, human interest stories, original short stories, poems, serials. Between 4,000-5,000 magazines started: average life: 2 years. Why did it grow: cost to print went down, more people learned to read and write. Oldest continuous magazine in the united states: scientific american. Financial considerations: editiors not usually paid much at lal.
