big issue

The Big Issue 

Lesson 1 

• Study in Relation to media language and media representation 
• Sold to help homeless people make money 
• Homeless sell and keep a bit of profit 
• circulation- number of copies a magazine sells 
• Readership- Not just who buys a magazine but the total number of people who are likely to read it.
• Mass audience- readership on a large scale 
• Niche audience- Narrow group of leaders with a particular interest 
• Subscription- Where a reader pays for a set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower price and receives them by post
• Mast head- the title of the magazine 
• Plug- Text that plugs a feature that will appear 
• Puff- a story that is given prominence on the cover 
• cover star- the over people 
• Anchorage text- Bit of contextual text 
• has adverts 
• written by professionals by john bird and gordon Robbick 
• 200,000,000 million copies