Sunday magazine

Traditionally, the articles in these magazines cover a wide range of subjects, and the content is not as current and timely as the rest of the newspaper.

With the rise of rotogravure printing in the 19th century, Sunday magazines offered better reproduction of photographs, and their varied contents could include columns, serialized novels, short fiction, illustrations, cartoons, puzzles and assorted entertainment features.

Janice Hume, instructor in journalism history at Kansas State University, noted, "The early Sunday magazines were latter 19th-century inventions and really linked to the rise of the department store and wanting to get those ads to women readers.

The New York Times Magazine was published on September 6, 1896, and it contained the first photographs ever printed in that newspaper.

[4] In November 1896, Morrill Goddard, editor of the New York Journal from 1896 to 1937, launched Hearst's Sunday magazine, later commenting, "Nothing is so stale as yesterday's newspaper, but The American Weekly may be around the house for days or weeks and lose none of its interest.

[6][7] The National Sunday Magazine was published on a semimonthly basis during the early part of the 20th century by the Abbott & Briggs Company.

Prior to 1942, it was similar to the Sunday Grit Story Section, in that it carried 80% fiction.