Magazine Ownership & Regulation

LO: Research ownership, regulation & institutions in music magazine.

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• Uncut
• NME

http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/

• MOJO
• Q
• The Box
• Downtown Country
• Magic
• 4 Music 
• (Kerrang)

• Pitchfork

• Radio Times

 

• None

• Radio Times
• BBC Music Magazine
• Top of the Pops
• Music

Magazine sales

Magazines make money by advertisement, they can buy advertisement space in places where lots of people will see to raise the attention of the magazine. Subscriptions create a constant flow of sales to the company each month, alternatively magazines can also be sent straight to the shelves and more accessible.

Ownership

The majority of magazines are published by only nine companies but their titles make up nearly 75% of the market. This means they have a massive influence over audiences and their companies will only get bigger as they control most of the market 

Media Regulation & Law

IPSO are the independent Press Standards Organisation a company that regulates over 1500 print and 1100 online titles and helps maintain freedom of expression for the press.

IMPRESS is a company that provides public with reliable sources of news. Magazines have to follow an Editors' code of Practice which contains

https://www.ipso.co.uk/editors-code-of-practice/

https://www.impress.press/

• Accuracy
• Privacy
• Harassment
• Intrusion into grief or shock
• Reporting Suicide
• Children
• Children in sex cases
• Hospitals
• Reporting of Crime
• Clandestine devices and subterfuge
• Victims of sexual assault
• Discrimination
• Financial journalism
• Confidential sources
• Witness payments in criminal trials
• Payments to criminals
• The Public Interest

The Future of Magazines

The biggest thing that has effected magazines in the past years is digitalization,  this means magazines are cheaper to produce and the factories are smaller. This means magazines are made less physically and are more accessible. 

Technology has had a massive impact on the magazine industry both good and bad, magazines are much easier to produce and independent companies can start up in the industry.