This paper states that the "Saturday Evening Post" was the first
successful magazine in the United States, first published
in 1821, and continued as a weekly
publication until 1969, after which it appeared sporadically. The author points out that, by 2002, news magazines began to move away from hard news and to shift their focus toward more feature (soft news) articles because, by the time people got these magazines, they were already familiar with news events from watching 24-hour, cable news channels. The paper explains the use of the Internet by hard copy magazines, but stresses that, to date, most of the experiments with subscription-based Internet magazines have not been
successful.