Paper 5: Comparing and Contrasting Publications

The two publications I chose were Glamour Magazine and the Boston Globe. Glamour is my monthly guilty pleasure, and the Boston Globe is what came to my house every day when I lived at home. Glamour is described as a magazine, "For young women interested in fashion, beauty and a contemporary lifestyle." The cover features a photo of celebrity, usually a woman,  and has various cover stories in neon colors to make them pop out at a reader. Each issue of the magazine has a theme, and this months is the Swimsuit Issue, which means that the focus of the magazine this month will be swimsuits. Each issue is split up into sections, and this is repetitive each month. The sections include, Cover Reads/Hot Topics,Fashion, Beauty, Health, All About You, Obsessed, and Everything Else You Need. The tone is very upbeat throughout all articles, and definitely geared towards woman in their teens-twenties. The Boston Globe, on the other hand, usually has a more formal tone. There are tons of articles in the Globe, and most are about news topics and are written in a more serious manner. The audience of the Boston Globe is mostly anyone who lives in the Boston area; news that concerns them. The Boston Globe, like Glamour, is separated into sections and these are repetitive each day. The sections include News, Metro, Arts, Business, Sports, Opinion, Lifestyle, and Magazine. The sections of lifestyle and magazine have more of a relaxed tone. The cover of the Boston Globe always has a picture on it, usually it is about the most prevailing news in Boston or even the country/world, depending on what news is available that day. For example, something that happened in Massachusetts could be on the front cover or if something happened in Iran, that could be on the cover too. The cover stories are always the most important, similar to Glamour.