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3. Reading

Reading 11.1.

Read the text “Magazines” and answer these questions.

1.What are the advantages for a public relations of using magazines ?

2.How can you classify magazines?

Magazines

Magazine editors in most instances aim carefully at special-interest audiences. They fire rifle bullets at limited, well-defined readership groups.

The more than 12,000 periodicals published in the United States may be classified in several ways. For purposes of this discussion, periodicals are grouped into two broad categories, those for the public at large and those for specific audiences. Each in turn broken down into several subdivisions.

Among the types in this category are the following:

General Interest. Only a few national magazines with across-the-board appeal exist today. Prominent among them are Reader’s Digest, enormously successful worldwide; People, which capitalizes on the contemporary interest in personalities; and National Geographic*.

News Magazines. High-circulation weekly newsmagazines report and interpret the news, adding background that daily newspapers lack time to develop. The biggest periodicals of this type are Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report.

Women’s Interest. Magazines designed for women have a very large audience. Prominent in this group are Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Working Woman, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, and Family Circle.

Men’s Interest. Growing participation of women in athletics has increased female readership of traditionally male sports magazines. Sports Illustrated and Field and Stream are perhaps the best known of these magazines.

(Wilcox, Dennis L., et al. Essentials of Public Relations. New York: Longman., 2001. P. 207-208)

Notes

Reader's Digest is a monthly general interest family magazine. Although its circulation has declined in recent years, the Audit Bureau of Circulation says Reader's Digest is still the bestselling consumer magazine in the United States, with a circulation of over 10 million copies in the United States, and a readership of 38 million as measured by Mediamark Research (MRI). According to MRI, Reader's Digest reaches more readers with household incomes of $100,000+

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than Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Inc. combined. Global editions of

Reader's Digest reach an additional 40 million people in more than 70 countries, with 50 editions in 21 languages including a Spanish language edition called Selecciones.

(“Wall Street Journal”) Wikipedia. 20 Oct. 2007. 20 Oct 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reader’s _digest.>)

People (full name People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $ 1.5 billion. It was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Adverstising Age’s annual “A-list” and #3 on Adweek’s “Brand Blazers” list in October 2006.

(“Wall Street Journal” Wikipedia. 20 Oct. 2007. 20 Oct 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/people_magazine.>)

The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It has become one of the world’s best known magazines and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow border running around the edge of its cover.

(“Wall Street Journal” Wikipedia. 20 Oct. 2007. 20 Oct 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Magazine.>)

Reading 11.2.

Read the text “Books” and answer these questions.

1.Why are books not popularly recognized as a public relations tool?

2.What is the standard method of publishing a book?

3.How can public relations specialists use books as their tools?

Books

Because their writing and publication is a time-consuming process, often involving years from the conception of an idea until appearance of the volume, books are not popularly recognized as public relations tools. Yet they can be. A book, especially a hardcover one, has stature in the minds of readers. They read it with respect and give attention to the message it carries.

Books are promulgators of ideas. As channels of communication, they reach thoughtful audiences, including opinion leaders. Often publication of a book starts a trend or focuses national discussion on an issue.

The standard method of book publishing is for an author and publisher to sign a contract describing the material the author will deliver to the publisher and the conditions under which the

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