Editing Magazine (section)

==== Late 19th century ====
In the mid-19th century, monthly magazines gained popularity. They were general interest to begin, containing some news, vignettes, poems, history, political events, and social discussion.<ref>Straubhaar, LaRose, Davenport. ''Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology'' (Nelson Education, 2015).{{full citation needed|date = January 2025}}</ref>{{page needed|date = January 2025}} Unlike newspapers, they were more of a monthly record of current events along with entertaining stories, poems, and pictures. The first periodicals to branch out from news were [[Harper's Magazine|''Harper's'']] and ''[[The Atlantic]]'', which focused on fostering the arts.<ref name="Biagi">Biagi, Shirley. Media Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media, 2013 Update. Cengage Publishing, 2013. {{full citation needed|date = January 2025}}</ref>{{page needed|date = January 2025}} Both ''Harper's'' and ''The Atlantic'' persist to this day, with ''Harper's'' being a cultural magazine and The Atlantic focusing mainly on world events. Early publications of ''Harper's'' even held famous works such as early publications of [[Moby-Dick|''Moby Dick'']] or famous events such as the laying of the world's first [[transatlantic telegraph cable]]; however, the majority of early content was trickle down from British events.<ref>{{Cite magazine|author =  | magazine = Harper's Magazine|title = About|url = http://harpers.org/history/|date = 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151205201154/http://harpers.org/history/|archive-date = 5 December 2015|url-status = live}}</ref>

The development of the magazines stimulated an increase in literary criticism and political debate, moving towards more opinionated pieces from the objective newspapers.<ref name="Biagi" />{{page needed|date = January 2025}} The increased time between prints and the greater amount of space to write provided a forum for public arguments by scholars and critical observers.<ref name="Frank Luther Mott">{{cite book|first = Frank Luther|last = Mott|title = A History of American Magazines, 1865–1885|date = 1938|isbn = 9780674395527|publisher = Harvard University Press|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zt1V-ISXFsoC|access-date = 20 August 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160407224411/https://books.google.com/books?id=zt1V-ISXFsoC&printsec=frontcover|archive-date = 7 April 2016|url-status = live}}{{page needed|date = January 2025}}</ref>{{page needed|date = January 2025}}

The early periodical predecessors to magazines started to evolve to modern definition in the late 1800s.<ref name="Frank Luther Mott" />{{page needed|date = January 2025}} Works slowly became more specialized and the general discussion or cultural periodicals were forced to adapt to a consumer market which yearned for more localization of issues and events.<ref name="Biagi" />{{page needed|date = January 2025}}