Substantive news or general interest periodicals may be quite attractive in appearance, although some are in newspaper format. Articles are often heavily illustrated, generally with photographs.
Examples of new or general interest (all available at ECC in print or through EBSCO)
Atlantic monthly (Print)
The Christian Science monitor (Print)
New Yorker (EBSCO)
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CRITERIA |
GENERAL NEWS |
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Content |
News and opinion magazines evaluate news, social and political events. Published weekly or monthly, news and opinion magazines do not focus on reporting the news "objectively" but on discussing events from one (usually) editorial point-of-view, such as liberal, conservative, left, right, balanced, or middle-of-the-road. |
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Author |
Written by a member of the editorial staff, a scholar or a free lance writer. |
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Audience |
Educated audience with general interest |
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Language |
Language of these publications is geared to any educated audience. |
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Graphics |
Have a glossy photographs, graphs, charts, tables and a few advertisements. |
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Layout & Organization |
Informal; may include non-standard formatting. May not present supporting evidence or a conclusion. |
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Accountability |
Articles are evaluated by editorial staff, not experts in the field; edited for format and style. |
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Sources |
Sometimes cite sources, though more often do not |
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Purpose |
To provide information, in a general manner, to a broad audience of concerned citizens. |
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Paging |
Each issue generally begins with page 1. |
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Publication |
By commercial enterprises or individuals, although some emanate from specific professional organizations. |
Research Minutes is a series for undergraduate students at Cornell University covering library research topics. This segment discusses how to recognize and find scholarly journal articles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAiJL5B5esM
