quarterly

“We’re hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors … you can’t do this stuff,” FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week.

2013 February 22, Scott Zamost and Drew Griffin, “FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees”, in CNN:

A periodical publication that appears four times per year.


monthly

Japanese: マンスリー

Katherine assumed she was having her monthly. She could recall times when her own monthly was so intense that it showed on her face.

2008, Monica Dixon, Through Closed Eyes, page 230:


weekly

From Middle English wekely, weikly (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly. Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).


weekly

Japanese: ウィークリー (wīkurī)

A publication that is published once a week.


diurnal

From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.

He was by birth, some authors write, / A Russian, some a Muscovite, / And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred, / Of whom we in diurnals read.

1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:


Australian

General Australian, Macquarie Dictionary

/ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/

A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).

inglés australiano

a language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English)


Australian

/ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/

The Australian, an Australian newspaper.


daily

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

A newspaper or comic strip etc. that is published every day.

(video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(US, film, television) Raw, unedited footage traditionally developed overnight and viewed by the cast and crew the next day.


newspaper

en-noun

newspaper (countable and uncountable, plural newspapers)

There is, however, one habit of reading which has become almost a social evil; and that is the habit of reading newspapers which many indulge in, morning, noon, and night.

1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home, 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 64:

‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(countable) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.


bimonthly

The organization's bimonthly meetings allow for two discussions each quarter.

His bimonthly appointment was almost due.


bimonthly

The organization's board of directors meets bimonthly.


bimonthly

We have to get the report done. If the boss doesn't get his bimonthly he'll scream.

A publication that is published on a bimonthly basis.


magazine

→ Burmese: မဂ္ဂဇင်း (magga.jang:)

→ Cebuano: magasin

→ Dutch: magazine

→ French: magazine

→ Portuguese: magazine

→ Italian: magazine

→ Gujarati: મેગેઝિન (megejhin)

→ Hebrew: מגזין (magazin)

→ Japanese: マガジン (magajin)

desc

→ Kashubian: magazina (Canada, United States,)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Spanish: magacín

→ Turkish: magazin

→ Malay: magazin

From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”).

der

A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.

After several months' delay, The Emerald City, New York's hour-long gay television show, is on the air. In magazine format, the show offers interviews, gay news and commentary, visits to New York's entertainment spots and gay shows, and a bit of camping from George Sardi.

1977 April 16, “Emeralds for TV”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

(attributive) Of a television show, having each episode comprised of a variety features or segments.

(archaic) A country or district especially rich in natural products.

Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.

1983, Channels of Communications, volume 3, page 41:

The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]

1984, Telecommunications, volume 18, page 89:

(television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.


biweekly

From bi- + week + -ly. The sense referring to twice a week can be analyzed as bi- + weekly.

Occurring once every two weeks; fortnightly.


fold

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.

2007, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 43:

(newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.


dog-eared

en-adj

dog-eared (comparative more dog-eared, superlative most dog-eared)

more dog-eared (comparative)
most dog-eared (superlative)

/ˈdɔɡˌɪ(ə)ɹd/

From dog + eared (“having ears (of a specified type)”), modelled after dog’s-ear (obsolete), due to the similarity of their appearance to the folded ears of certain dogs. The word is analysable as dog-ear (“to fold the corner of a book’s page”) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives) (dog-ear is attested in print later than dog-eared).

suffix

By thumbing to the dog-eared pages, she quickly found the items in the catalog she wanted to order.

The pages in his favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.

There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy. There the satinwood book-case filled with his dog-eared schoolbooks.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 10, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

To the uninitiated it may seem strange to behold a Harvard graduate stuck down day after day poring over a pile of dog-eared school-books— third arithmetics, primary grammars, beginners' histories of Tennessee, of the United States, of England; physiology, hygiene. It may seem queer. But when it comes to standing a Wayne County teacher's examination, the specific answers to the specific questions on a dozen old examination slips are worth all the degrees Harvard ever did confer.

1921, Thomas Sigismund Stribling, “Chapter IV”, in Birthrigt:

Dog-eared tomes litter his sitting room, filled with lovely names – Sailor, Scandal, Saucebox, Starlight, Siren, to take a few from a random page of the directory for 1875.

2002 September 19, Stephen Moss, “Don’t spare the horses – riders set off for hunt rally”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-09:

Of a page in a book or other publication: having its corner folded down, either due to having been read many times, or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.

摺頁的

of a page in a book or other publication: having its corner folded down, either due to having been read many times, or intentionally as a sort of bookmark


gazette

→ Kikuyu: ngathĩti

→ Maori: kāhiti

→ Swahili: gazeti

Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.

A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.

subsidiary legislation
subsidiary legislation

(law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.


gazette

en-verb

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

gazettes (present singular third-person)
gazetting (participle present)
gazetted (participle past)
gazetted (past)

Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

(UK) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.


extra

Extra, extra! Read all about it!

An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.


journal

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

[…]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 163:


periodical

en-adj

periodical (comparative more periodical, superlative most periodical)

more periodical (comparative)
most periodical (superlative)

/ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩/

/ˌpɪəɹiˈɒdɪkl̩/

influence opinion through the periodical press.

1882, William John Courthope, “Addison”, in Men of Letters:

Published at regular intervals of more than one day, especially weekly, monthly, or quarterly.


herald

From Latin heraldus, from Middle English herald, herauld, heraud, from Anglo-Norman heraud, from Old French heraut, hiraut (modern French héraut), from Frankish *heriwald, from Proto-Germanic *harjawaldaz, a compound consisting of Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”) + *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”). Doublet of Harold, Harald; compare Walter, which has these elements reversed.

Daffodils are heralds of Spring.

A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.

բանբեր

a harbinger giving signs of things to come

Rouge Dragon is a herald at the College of Arms.

(heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms

သံတော်ဆင့်

an official whose speciality is heraldry

New this season will be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal calls for use of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used.
Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.

(advertising) A handbill consisting of an advertisement.


obituary

/əˈbɪt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃuˌɜɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃəɹi/

Baldomero Lillo
La Nación
Susannah Maxwell

PIE word
 *h₁epi
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin obituārius (“obituary”) + English -ary (suffix denoting something relating to another thing or used in a place). Obituārius is derived from Latin obitus (“act of approaching or going toward, an approach; act of going down, setting; of the sun: sunset; death; destruction, downfall, ruin”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); while obitus is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of obeō (“to go to meet, go towards; (figurative) to die, pass away, perish; (astronomy) to set”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘toward’) + eō (“to go, move”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).

doodberig

brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper

(notice):

[N]ot one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan—do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Affidavit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 228:

The newspaper came in, as usual, after breakfast. I looked it over, and discovered this memorable entry, among the obituary announcements of the day:— "On the 29th inst., at Brighton, Michael Vanstone, Esq., formerly of Zurich, aged 77."

1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, “VIII. Chronicle for April and May.”, in No Name. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, between the scenes (Chronicle of Events: Preserved in Captain Wragge’s Despatch Box), page 21:

A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.


webmag

(informal) A magazine that is only published on the Internet.


e-zine

After reading the submission guidelines for various e-zines and print markets, I've found a wide variety of "rights" listed.

2003, Tina Morgan, Know Your Rights, Fiction Factor: The online magazine for fiction writers:

(computing) A magazine published in electronic form, especially on the World Wide Web.


Guardian

(newspapers) A British daily national newspaper.


Post

en-proper noun

Post (countable and uncountable, plural Posts)

(newspapers) A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, such as The Washington Post or the New York Post.

bưu báo

common name for a newspaper or periodical


Times

(newspapers) A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, especially The Times (published in the United Kingdom), but also The New York Times, The Times of India, Radio Times, etc.


Mercury

Inherited from Middle English Mercurie, from Latin Mercurius.

No allusion to it is to be found in the monthly Mercuries.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 21, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

(archaic) A carrier of tidings.
A newspaper.


Sun

From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunna, sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wén-, oblique form of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun; the Sun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Old Dutch sunna, German Low German Sünn, Old Saxon sunna, German Sonne, Old High German sunna, Faroese sunna, Icelandic sunna, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō). More at sun.

inh

(newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.


trade magazine

trade (“a group of people engaged in a craft”) + magazine (“serial publication”)

A magazine dedicated to the dissemination of information related to a particular industry.


NYT

Initialism of New York Times (a US newspaper)


WP

(international law) Initialism of Warsaw Pact.


USAT

Initialism of USA Today, an American newspaper.


WSJ

(business, newspaper) Initialism of Wall Street Journal.


LAT

(rail transport) The station code of Lam Tin in Hong Kong.


LAT

(firefighting, aviation) Acronym of large airtanker (“a class of waterbomber”).


LAT

My stepmother, aware of trends, told us we would be “LAT,” for “living apart together,” referring to couples that choose to live separately — even far apart — while remaining committed.

2018 June 22, Glen David Gold, “Staying Together by Living Apart (in a Duplex)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Initialism of living apart together, describing people in an intimate relationship who live at different addresses.


LW

en-noun

LW (countable and uncountable, plural LWs)


zine

Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.

Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.

2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:

The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.

2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:

I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.

2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:

A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.


back issue

An edition of a magazine, etc, that was published earlier than the current edition.


RFT

(newspapers) Initialism of Riverfront Times.


back number

Because of war conditions and rigid paper control, it is now impossible for us to keep supplies of recent back numbers.

1941 December, “Back Numbers of "The Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:


HT

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)


HT

Initialism of Hindustan Times, an Indian newspaper.


Playboy

A brand of adult magazines introduced in the United States.


pup

Coordinate term: bulldog edition

(chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.


obit

So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.

2010 December 9, Roy Greenslade, “Don't laugh - new TV show is set on a newspaper obits desk”, in The Guardian:


DM

DM (countable and uncountable, plural DMs)


DM

en-verb

DM (third-person singular simple present DMs, present participle DMing, simple past and past participle DMed or DM'd)

DMs (present singular third-person)
DMing (participle present)
DMed (participle past)
DMed (past)
DM'd (participle past)
DM'd (past)

To Dungeon Master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.


romp

romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)

romps (present singular third-person)
romping (participle present)
romped (participle past)
romped (past)

This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style

1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:

Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.

2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:

One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie.

2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(slang, chiefly newspapers) To engage in playful or illicit sex.


tribune

From Middle English tribune, from Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribunus (“tribune, tribal leader”), from tribus (“tribe”).

der

tribune of the plebs
tribune of the plebs

(historical) An elected official in Ancient Rome, a tribune of the plebs.


quality magazine

en-noun

quality magazine (plural quality magazines)

Coordinate term: quality newspaper

A magazine designed to appeal to readers of superior education or culture.


paperboy

A male who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.


jazz mag

From jazz + mag, from the otherwise largely obsolete senses of jazz meaning "semen" or "sexual activity" — possibly via a euphemistic alteration of jizz.

(slang, British) A pornographic magazine.


advertiser

A periodical in which advertisements can be published by individuals.


dirty magazine

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dirty magazine.wav

(informal) A morally unclean, indecent or sexually provocative magazine; a pornographic periodical.


girlie

When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.

(slang) A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.


above the fold

below the scroll

antonym(s) of “near the top of a web page or application screen”

(newspapers) Situated in the upper half of the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, and thus more prominent, as the lower half is not usually visible when the folded newspaper is displayed for sale.


shopper

→ Urdu: شاپر (śāpar)

A free local newspaper containing advertisements for local shops etc; sometimes includes discount coupons.


webzine

In the spring, the museum launched its new Internet magazine, ¡del Corazón! (“From the Heart”). This interactive webzine focuses on Latino artists in the collection, such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Aguela Martinez, and Irvin Trujillo.

1998, Elizabeth Broun, “National Museum of American Art”, in Smithsonian Year: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ended September 30, 1997, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 37:

Dickinson, 42, takes the magazine’s helm after working 14 years for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He edited a bimonthly webzine, Fish and Wildlife Today, wrote frequently for the department’s magazine, and managed communications for the agency’s Wildlife, Fisheries, and Ecological Services divisions.

2002, “Dickinson takes the reins of Montana Outdoors”, in Tom Dickinson, editor, Montana Outdoors, page 32:

Readers of the story by Zak Jason ’11 titled “Curtain Call: The Secretary and the Blogger” (Summer 2011) will remember how the recent Commencement speaker, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, singled out Allison Lantero, a graduating senior, in his remarks. Writing for the webzine Her Campus, Lantero had blogged in part, “Now that our sighs of disappointment have subsided, what we really wand to know is: Who is Ray LaHood?” adding, “all we can hope is that the speech is short.”

2011, “Update”, in Ben Birnbaum, editor, Boston College Magazine, volume 71, number 4, Boston College, →ISSN, page 3:

(computing) A magazine published on the World Wide Web.


fanzine

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Blend of fan + magazine. Coined by American chess player and SF fandom founder Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his own science fiction fanzine Detours, to replace the earlier fanmag.

coined

I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen.

1950 September, Francis Towner Laney, “Syllabus for a Fanzine”, in Spacewarp, number 42, page 8:

"Well, long ago," said the Tin Woodsfan, "a fan and I were feuding, and the fan decided to drive me out of fandom. But no one can leave Iz because of the great burning desert called Public Contempt which surrounds this fannish land, and since nobody ever gafiates while still inside the country, he had to cast a spell of immobility upon me. One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine, he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along."

1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Tin Woodsfan”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 2013-07-21:

Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts.

1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun, →ISBN, page 9:

The US jazz magazine Coda began in 1958 as a 12-page mimeographed fanzine, put together by its editor and a team of volunteers working for beer and pizza.

2013, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, volume 1, →ISBN, Fanzines, page 227:

A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest

迷友雜誌

a magazine, normally produced by amateurs


TV guide

An interactive menu-based system displaying the television schedule on the television screen.


WaPo

It's quite impressive that the WaPo editorial board has come out with both barrels against <b₂> their own journalists <c₂>. (Black 2016)

2017, Scott A. Eldridge II, Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field, Routledge, →ISBN:

(informal, newspapers) Clipping of Washington Post, a newspaper from the United States.


papergirl

(British) a girl who delivers newspapers; a female paperboy


pulp magazine

Derived from the inexpensive wood pulp used to make low-priced mass marketed magazines in the United States from the early 1900s.

A magazine made with inexpensive paper and printing, containing shocking or sensationalist text fiction by low-paid writers.


Thunderer

(British, informal) The Times newspaper.


trimonthly

Occurring at intervals three months apart.


trimonthly

A periodical publication that appears four times per year (every three months).


skin magazine

(slang) An adult or pornographic magazine.


prozine

From pro + zine. See pro (“professional”). Coined by American chess player and SF fandom founder Russ Chauvenet.


classifieds

He ran an ad in the classifieds.

classified advertisement
classified advertisement

A section of a newspaper, magazine or web site containing classified advertisements.


below the fold

(newspapers) Printed on the lower half of the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, such that it is not immediately visible on a folded copy of the newspaper, e.g. as displayed at a newsstand or in a vending machine.


Cosmo

Borrowed by Scotland from Italy in the 18th century. An Italian variant of Cosimo, from the name Cosmas of a saint (martyred with his brother Damian in the fourth century), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “order, ordered universe”).


Stars and Stripes

The official newspaper of the United States armed forces.


girlie magazine

en-noun

girlie magazine (plural girlie magazines)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-girlie magazine.wav

(informal) A soft porn magazine featuring naked women.


Grauniad

Deliberate misspelling of Guardian, coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, implying that the Guardian newspaper was prone to typographical errors.

Good old Grauniad.

1984 [1981], Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay, “The Right to Know”, in The Complete Yes Minister, →ISBN, page 135:

Stop along the road for papers; scan headlines, make sure that no late-breaking story displaced the Vanguard piece and that it's intact (ninety-five percent – a satisfyingly high score), check out Doonesbury in the Grauniad, then away.

Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich. As befits a possible Grauniad editrix, the NUJ misspelt her name.

2015 February 24, Patrick Kidd, “Guardian Angels Declare”, in The Times, page 11:

His appointment marked the start of a daily corrections and clarifications column, a first for a UK newspaper, which has mined a rich seam of typos and other slips for which “the Grauniad” is fondly known.

2021 May 12, Elisabeth Ribbans, “Typo negative: the best and worst of Grauniad mistakes over 200 years”, in The Guardian:

(UK, newspapers, humorous) The Guardian, a British daily national newspaper.


diskzine

Coordinate term: tapezine

It will be interesting to watch this diskzine over the next couple of years […]

1984, Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools for the Professional Programmer:

A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. Three "diskzines" — magazines on floppy disks — started cheaply by entrepreneurs who placed ads in obscure computer journals […]

1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)


punk zine

A punk zine with a friendly demeanor.

Punk zines wanted to make readers into music makers, zine publishers, and protesters rather than passive consumers.

A zine addressing and describing the punk subculture.


tapezine

Coordinate term: diskzine

Just my opinion, feel free to comment...
Blood.
(who used to run a speccy tapezine called Spectraxx back in the glory days...!)

1994, Lee Tonks, “Best ZX magazine”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

Oh, and remaining with Cyber-Tec - anyone know if the Paul Green who seems to be behind the Cyber-Tec label is the same Paul Green that used to (and may still) run a Gary Numan tapezine?

1995, Al Crawford, “New Mind (was: Re: Cyber-Tec)”, in rec.music.industrial (Usenet):

The Man Whose Head Expanded (Bang Zoom tapezine)

2003, Dave Thompson, A User's Guide to the Fall, page 182:

A zine released on audio cassette, containing either voice recordings or computer data.


perzine

Disgruntled housewife is a perzine in Web format.

2002, Johan Fornäs, Digital borderlands:

This is not to say that the only zines that matter are perzines. In general, the zine seems more interested in the lived relationship of the individual zine writer to the world.

2009, John D. H. Downing, Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, page 566:

A personal zine, one that deals with issues directly related to its author.


newsmagazine

Very recently newsmagazines tell us that "the pendulum is swinging back."

1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, →ISBN, page 407:

A magazine that specializes in delivering news.

Their newsmagazine airs twice weekly.

(broadcasting) A news show presenting feature-length stories on current events, rather than immediate reports.


Guardianista

And so the Guardianista is prepared for a tragic story of injustice and retribution, brought about by the evil that stalks the dark corners of cyberspace.

2005, Tim Worstall, 2005: Dispatches from the Blogosphere:

[…] the shrieking 'Guardianista' class and poor old Trevor Norris, because Trevor Norris was a local pain in the arse who'd once opposed a Heath development […]

But if councils were still run part-time by engine drivers — not self-regarding, pious Guardianistas — at the very least we'd get our dustbins emptied once a week.

2007 December 10, “Better an engine driver than a Guardianista!”, in Daily Mail:

(British, slang, derogatory) A reader of the Guardian newspaper, regarded as middle-class, excessively liberal and politically correct, etc.


bookazine

A "bookazine" (in a readable, nonacademic, magazine style), created by a non-linear "organic process," to provide a systemic view of the global transition that is already under way.

1984, Future Survey Annual 1983, World Future Society, 1984, p. 222

It was a quarterly paperback bookazine from Ace, a book filled with fiction and speculative fact and artwork and all the little extras that make up a magazine, and it was the most consistently satisfying and thought-provoking periodical that came into my house, not excluding Omni and the Scientific American.

1992, Spider Robinson, “Rah Rah R.A.H.!”, in Requiem, Tor, page 369:

It costs $34 for a two-year subscription, which includes access to all of their Web-based products and a quarterly print "bookazine."

2007, Mark Frauenfelder, Rule the Web, St. Martin's, page 140:

A publication combining elements of books and magazines.


zinefest

The book, Calhoun says, incorporates ideas, in grossly degraded form, from a feminist "zinefest" subculture that had inspired her in her youth.

2007 April 22, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:

(informal) A public event where the publishers of zines can promote and distribute them.


zinelike

en-adj

zinelike (comparative more zinelike, superlative most zinelike)

more zinelike (comparative)
most zinelike (superlative)

It's printed on bright pink paper with underground zinelike script.

2009, Kristen Kemp, Breakfast at Bloomingdale's:

But we also liked the ethos of zines, and were also very zinelike in tone — our first few issues were all pretty much written by the two of us, and consisted of rants and opinion pieces and reviews.

2015, Ian Morris, Joanne Diaz, The Little Magazine in Contemporary America, page 70:


cyberzine

Today, comparable cyberzines reach tens of thousands of readers without incurring any printing or distribution costs. The only expenses, in addition to the hard- and software, are modest server and access fees.

1999, Steven Heller, Design literacy (continued): understanding graphic design, page 34:

(computing) A magazine published on the Internet.


girlzine

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-girlzine.wav

Impatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx.

2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues:

On another floor there was a fanzine workshop, as well as a putting-on-gigs workshop, an extensive girlzine stall and a rape crisis information point.

2001, Chérie Turner, Everything you need to know about the riot grrrl movement:

On the one hand feminist ideas are increasingly taken for granted across a range of media and genres, vibrant girlzines spring up all over the world, and the Web is home to an enormous diversity of feminist ideas[…]

2007, Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media, page 2:

A zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.


Torygraph

Blend of Tory + telegraph, from the newspaper's political leanings; popularised by Private Eye magazine.

I thought, I'm not going to do my spring boxes and give a picture to the bloody Torygraph.

1993, David Hare, Lyn Haill, Asking around, page 169:

(UK, derogatory, informal) The Telegraph newspaper.


videozine

A zine published on videotape rather than in paper or computer format.


netzine

From net + zine with net in sense of network or Internet.

A zine published on a computer network in electronic form.


musiczine

[…] MUSICZINES, PERSONALZINES, PUNKZINES, COMICZINES OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.

2002, Aaron Cometbus, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, page 133:

Musiczines (for all zines held in the MLSRA relating to music)
Reviewzines (all zines that included reviews)
Perzines (for personal zines)

2010, Patricia Falk, Stefanie Hunker, Cataloguing Outside the Box, page 26:

[…] their version appearing as a free 45 in the musiczine, Bucketful of Brains).

2010, Clinton Heylin, Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974-2008:


small ad

A short, simple advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, usually collected in a section.


slashzine

There's also a healthy B7 [Blake's 7] slashzine community.

1994, William James Moyer, “Sinclair vs. Avon (?!)”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (Usenet):

Slashzines based on Dark Shadows characters are rare; most Dark Shadows fans have never even heard of them.

1998, Cheryl Harris, Alison Alexander, Theorizing fandom: fans, subculture, and identity:

That's why all the SW [Star Wars] slashzines are pubbed underground -- there is no sex, let alone kinky sex, in the SW universe, and by damn LucasArts is gonna see that it stays that way!

2000, Rez, “New Napster Software but for DOOM LEVELS”, in rec.games.computer.doom.misc (Usenet):


newsplan

From a former trademark, “The Newsplan Discounts for Continuity”, owned by Newspaper Advertising Bureau, Inc. From news + plan.

(newspapers) A methodology used by newspapers to determine the discounted cost of ad copy.


bulldog edition

en-noun

bulldog edition (plural bulldog editions)

Uncertain. One popular theory is that competition mainly drove the term; publishers "fought like bulldogs" to "get out editions that would catch the mails going out of town." Another theory suggests that it comes from the nautical term dogwatch (“evening shift”), as printers had to work late in the evening to put out an early edition for the morning paper. Numerous other theories have been proposed.

The Detroit Mirror, morning tabloid, which has been under the same ownership as The Chicago Tribune and The New York Daily News, suspended publication with its early bulldog edition today.

1932 August 5, “The Detroit Mirror, a Tabloid, Suspends”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-14:

In journalism, a "bulldog edition" is an edition of a daily newspaper printed early for transportation to distant points.

1970 June 10, “Today in History”, in Owosso Argus-Press, Michigan, USA, retrieved 2012-09-14, page 23:

Larry Holmes marched into view at 20 minutes before the hour of 11 a.m. . . . The guys with the cameras could snap away, and everybody would have a story for the 6 O'Clock News or the bulldog edition.

1980 October 2, Bruce Keidan, “Ali-Holmes strike out before bout”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2012-09-14, page 9:

He took us on evening walks. […] On the way home, he'd stop at the corner next to the subway stop, get the bulldog edition of the Inquirer and chat with the guy selling the papers.

2008 April 10, Chris Matthews, “Philly Politicos Kick it Old-School”, in Time:

(chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) The earliest edition of a periodical publication, especially a daily newspaper.


Grey Lady

Attested since at 1951. The term is unrelated to the color of the newspaper.


clubzine

Frankly, there was no point of publishing a clubzine if the only thing we were going to discuss was "when's the next book coming out."

1997, Kevin Standlee, “Information on MythInformation?”, in alt.fan.asprin (Usenet):

An amateur magazine published by and for members of a club.


e-magazine

This does not necessarily mean that they will be more commercially successful, because the affiliated magazines have a huge audience base from which to draw on as compared to new e-magazines that have to start from scratch.

2008, Rita Watson, Menahem Blondheim, The Toronto School of Communication Theory:

This may explain why the most popular e-magazines are fashion magazines, which account for 74 percent of magazines read online.

2010, James F. Scotton, William A. Hachten, New Media for a New China, page 72:

A magazine published in electronic format.


lad mag

Coordinate term: ladymag

FHM and Zoo are to close by the end of the year, marking the end of the lads’ mag era that dominated UK magazine publishing in the late 90s and early 2000s.

2015 November 17, Jasper Jackson, “FHM and Zoo closures mark end of lads' mag era”, in The Guardian:

(UK, informal) A magazine aimed at young men, typically containing suggestive photographs of female models and articles about cars, tools, music, film, sport, and sexual encounters.


fag mag

What people usually mean by that is 'my career has gone so far down the dumper I only have gay fans', or 'my career is at such a low ebb no one else can be bothered to interview me so my press officer officer fixed up this interview with some crummy fag mag.')

1995, Richard Smith, Seduced and Abandoned: Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music, Cassell, →ISBN, page 118:

“You probably want some fag mag. Tight butts with chest hair and trim mustaches.”

1999, Steve Vivan, A Self-Made Monster, Boson Books, →ISBN:

Todd's secret is uncovered when his friends Alan (Evan Handler) and Kirk (Manfred Melcher) find a “fag mag” in Todd's desk.

2002, Stephen Tropiano, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Applause Theatre & Cinema, →ISBN:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.


fagazine

At the other extreme, the most distinctive of all the gay publications of the day were a pair of home-made 'fagazines' of slightly old-fashioned psychedelic design, printed on heavy stock in a rainbow of bright colours.

1995, Ian Young, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory, Cassell, →ISBN, page 64:

REM lead singer Michael Stipe, for example, is queer, not gay. “For me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the gray areas,” he told Butt, a pocket-sized Dutch “fagazine.” “It’s really about identity I think. The identity I’m comfortable with is queer because I just think it’s more inclusive.”

2007 February 21, Joel Bleifuss, “A Politically Correct Lexicon”, in In These Times:

He was reading one of those little fagazines, those little gay rags, that there were white gay men in California dying because they were gay.

2013, Sonja Mackenzie, Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 45:


fag rag

For those of you out-of-the-know, Blueboy is a fag rag on the nice end of the spectrum (opposite Manmeat.)

1992, Louise Rafkin, Queer and Pleasant Danger: Writing Out My Life, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 148:

He handed her the magazine, and she recognized it as one of her brother Herb's gay publications which he kept hidden in a box under his bed, thinking no one knew about his stash of fag rags.

1997, John Patrick, Come Again, STARbooks press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110:

I ask my readers to send their old “fag rags” to me instead of burning them, since I argue that these magazines are part of our gay cultural heritage.

2011, Karl Andersson, Gay Man's Worst Friend: The Story of Destroyer Magazine, Entartetes Leben (2011; original Swedish book published 2010), page 50


foreign correspondent

foreign correspondent (plural foreign correspondents)

Oscar Vincent spent several years abroad, after graduation, acting as foreign correspondent of his father's paper.

1874, Horatio Alger, chapter 36, in Risen from the Ranks:

"Couldn't you be foreign correspondent for your newspaper?"
"We've good men in every European capital now. They've no use for more."

1922, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, chapter 35, in Black Oxen:

Now that my spell as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times has ended and I’ve come back home—if a place counts as home when you’ve been away for so long—I’ve had some time to think about how Britain and America have changed.

2013 Auugst 17, Sarah Lyall, "Dispatch: Ta-Ta, London. Hello, Awesome.," New York Times (18 June 2014)

(journalism) A reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides news reports and/or commentary from that place.


stfanzine

Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + fanzine (“fan magazine”).

blend

By the way, I hate horror yarns. Tough, but there is nothing to be done about it. You might start your own zine, if you want horror stories. Or send your manuscripts to SHIVERS or one of the other fanzines specializing in that branch of fantasy. This is a stfanzine.

1950 April, Arthur H. Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, number 37, page 2:

(dated, fandom slang) An amateur magazine produced by and for fans of science fiction.


stfzine

Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + zine (“magazine”).

Will trade stfzines, or what have you ... might even pay cash.

1950 April, Arthur H. Rapp, “Wanted”, in Spacewarp, number 37, page 29:

One of the few barbarisms I committed on the body of a stfzine was cutting out this chart to put in my high-school freshman science workbook.

1955, John Bristol Speer, “1934: The Making of a Fan”, in Fancestral Voices, page 110:

The average stfzine sold maybe 75,000 copies on a good day in the thirties when the population of the country was about 130 million. Today the population is rapidly approaching 239 million and the average stfzine still sells maybe 75,000 copies on a good day. If that many.

1968 March, Roy Tackett, “Section Eight [letter column]”, in Psychotic, number 24, page 28:

(dated, fandom slang) A science fiction magazine.


nextish

Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...

1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 30:

This ish is fairly barebones, owing to a busy schedule on my end. I’ve tried to make up for a lack of illos with some color in the titles. Hopefully, it won’t burn out your eyes. I promise a return to better production values nextish.

2009 May, Warren Buff, “Editorial”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, number 5, page 1:

(dated, fandom slang) In the subsequent issue of a periodical.


annish

And if the remainder of the March ish is as good as it begins, it'll be something! There will be two -- at least -- new columns inaugurated in the Third Annish -- plus some BNF's contribbing other items to the lineup.

1950 February, Art Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, number 35, page 2:

On January 1st, 1952 (past history to you readers) I expect to put out Volume 1, Number 1 of OOPSLA, my own fan mag. Sub rates are 10c per copy, 60c a year at a bi-monthly schedule. At that price goes the possibility of an annish.

1952 April, Gregg Calkins, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, volume 13, number 3, page 12:

Professor rich brown has recently promulgated a theory of the Conservation of Egoboo, which postulates that the amount of egoboo resulting from any given piece of fanac is constant. He points out that Nydahl is now as famous for his gafia as he would have been if his annish had received the acclaim he expected.

1986 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp That Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 6:

(dated, fandom slang) Issue of a periodical that marks the anniversary of its first publication.


thish

I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.

1996 March, R. Graeme Cameron, “Editorial”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, volume 3, number 1 (whole number 5), page 2:

(dated, fandom slang) A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.


crudzine

Perihelion shares with the rankest crudzines a penchant for printing amateur (or almost-amateur) fiction, and a generally gosh-wow outlook.

1969, Amazing Stories, volume 43, page 134:

This is one of the questions that has long puzzled mankind (along with why dropped toast always lands buttered-side down and how come crudzine editors always find your mailing address).

1981 November, Terry Hughes, “The Modified Big Bang Theory”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 7, page 27:

<nostalgic sigh> I remember the cover I stuck on my crudzine at the time of the first Jersey Eastercon... two top-hatted and tiara'd toffs saying "Hurrah! what fun at Jersey in '89".
Nobody seemed to take any notice. But then, it _was_ a very _cruddy_ crudzine.

1997 October 19, Sandra Bond, “Re: Jubilee”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <877221185snz@ho-stree.demon.co.uk>:

(dated, fandom slang) A low-quality fanzine.


letterzine

Incidental to the subject of fanzines -- POSTWARP, the letterzine for NFFF Members only, is well under way, with its fourth monthly ish due for completion within the next two or three days. If you are an N3F member, you're passing up plenty of interesting arguments by not subscribing.

1950 January, Art Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, number 34, page 3:

VOM VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, 4sj & Morojo's letterzine which flourished for fifty issues in the early 40s. It was originally just the lettercolumn of the LASFS OO, IMAGINATION!, but later took off on its own under Acky's ministrations.

1959, Richard Emey, Fancyclopedia II, Vom: Voice of the Imagi-nation:

In the letterzine INTERSTAT, Duane had been accused of producing a Mary Sue in the person of K't'lk, the glass spider.

1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women, →ISBN, page 98:

(dated, fandom slang) A fanzine that is all or mostly composed of letters of comment.


fmz

The ludicrous situation may arise of all Fandom producing one zine for their own consumption - but I hardly think so. […] And this situation will prove a spur to the recruiting of more fans, and the converting of fans into actifans. Partnerships will be dissolved after the war, when the new, bright crop of fmz that are promised spring up.

1943 October, H. K. Bulmer, “Staggerings”, in Futurian War Digest, number 31, pages 7–8:

fmz - (Brazier:Joquel) - Suggested abbreviation for fanzines. Pronounced [femz], but distinguished from "femmes" by accompanying the latter word with a whistle and descriptive gesture.

1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, fmz:

Yes, beginning with this issue QUANDRY will bring you Fanews of the South. Serving as O-O for AUSF will in no way limit QUANDRYs horizons, tho. It will remain the life-loving li'l fmz that it has been.

1950 December, Lee Hoffmann, “Chaos”, in Quandry, number 5, archived from the original on 2015-10-09, page 2:

There have always been crudzines, but in the current environment the average fmz is done by someone with some skill, with a limited audience in mind.

1995 September 11, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: All Knowledge Is Contained in Fanzines”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <9509101936014156@emerald.com>:


fanmag

Blend of fan (“admirer or aficionado”) + magazine.

LeZ plans, in the future, to print these Cullings regularly, from foreign fanmags, or American mags of small circulation, in the belief that you might otherwise not see the material.

1940 April, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Cullings”, in Le Zombie, number 27, page 3:

Arthur Widner Jr., editor of the Strangers Club's FANFARE, is plugging the word "fanzines" to take the place of the Philadelphian's "fanag" and the usual "fanmag". Incidentally, FANFARE is the neatest, most legible, and cleanest of any hectographed fanzine I have yet seen. In two colors too, into the bargain.

1941 March, Leslie A. Croutch, “Clippings from Canada”, in Futurian War Digest, volume 1, number 6, page 4:

The first issue of a fanmag from the southern-most post of Australian science fiction is good.

1941 April 6, Futurian Observer, number 33, page 1:

The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines.

1952 November, Algis Budrys, Planet Stories, volume 5, number 9, page 111:

People who put out worthless fanmags and try and soak the unwary fan 25¢ for them, people who sell back issue magazines at outrageous prices, people who put out offset, super-duper printed professional type fanzines ... all give me a large pain in the neck.

1955 January, Bob Stewart, “Abstractions”, in Abstract, number 9, page 38:

(dated, fandom slang) Magazine produced by amateurs for readers with a specific shared interest.


promag

The new pro mag, STARTLING STORIES lets itself in for a big time with the fast typers and hit and run spellers. 'NEW FANDOM' is the first, so far, to call it "STRATTLING STORIES", or words & music to that effect.

1939 January, Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Fun Dept”, in Le Zombie, number 2, page 2:

I guess that intangible something is closeness to perfection which makes my favorite science-fiction promag so easy to take with nary a word.

1941 April, Joe Fortier, “Brass Tacks”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 2, page 156:

Jackson's 'Still Small Voice' was 'worthy of a promag' thought NORMAN ASHFIELD

1950 Spring, Walter Alexander Willis, “On The Level”, in Slant, number 3, archived from the original on 2016-03-07:

(dated, fandom slang) A professionally published magazine.


apazine

From APA (“amateur press association”) + zine.

compound

Such apazines are contributed to the bundle by their publishers without charge, being considered exchanges for the other members' fanzines.

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, APA:

So, the inclusion of my personal opinions in the original apazine articles was not, I think, out of place.

1977 September, Peter Pross, “The Documents in the Case (letters)”, in The Mystery Fancier, volume 1, number 5, page 59:

A certain knowledgeable science fiction fan whom I know from my apazine days sees in this a precursor of the Jovian sentinels in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001.

1986, Leon L. Gammell, The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, →ISBN, page 26:

amateur press association
amateur press association

(fandom slang) A periodical created by a member of an amateur press association for distribution to all of its members.


genzine

It's really easy to start a genzine. All you need are a couple of neos with lots of time and enthusiasm; a couple of older fen with experience and enthusiasm (not to mention enough fannish contacts to make up a mailing-list); and a certain amount of mood-enhancers and sheer lunacy to get you to the point at which the thing stops being a great idea for Real Soon Now, and starts being a reality. A lot of crudzines are born that way.

1977 Summer–Fall, Susan Wood, “Propellor Beanie”, in Algol, volume 14, number 3 (whole number #29), page 23:

A fanzine for general circulation in fandom is called a genzine (general interest fanzine) as opposed to one for an amateur press association (apa) which is called an apazine.

1979 January-February, Darrell Schweitzer, “Occasionally Mentioning Science Fiction”, in Science Fiction Review, volume 8, number 1 (whole number #29), page 33:

(fandom slang) A fanzine made generally available, not limited to distribution only among an amateur press association.


personalzine

Vegas put out VAGUE, a fanzine that had started out as a personalzine -- hell, a letter-substitute, one or two sheets. But he put it out so frequently, sometimes three or four a month, that it had generated its own momentum. Soon he was printing letters, and it was a dozen pages. Some of the letters were thinly disguised articles -- fans quickly learned the kinds of letters Don liked to print -- and from there it was an easy step to the monthly genzine of 20 pages which VAGUE became: an inevitable evolution.

1986 November, Ted White, “The Purple Fields of Fanac”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 21:

Gegenschein is a personalzine, so I don't accept reader's contributions ... however, when an Elder Ghod of fandom unexpectedly sends me an article, I can easily be persuaded to make an exception.

1992 October, Eric Lindsay, Gegenschein, number 65:

[…] MUSICZINES, PERSONALZINES, PUNKZINES, COMICZINES OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.

2002, Aaron Cometbus, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, page 133:

(fandom slang) A fanzine produced by a single person, often covering that person's own interests and activities.


daily paper

The engine of the ill-fated mail was Stephenson, one of Whale's 4-6-0 "Experiment" class, which fact led to sensational outcryings in the daily papers about the scandal of "experimental machines" being used on fast trains!

1952 March, R. S. McNaught, “Joint Line Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:

Synonym of daily (noun, sense 1); a newspaper that is published daily.


e-newspaper

A newspaper published in electronic form.


Pravda

Borrowed from Russian Правда (Pravda, literally “The Truth”).

bor+

These figures indicate that there must have been considerable wastage in the past; indeed Pravda said that “no deviation from these standards is to be permitted, however slight, and it is the duty of Party workers in factories to exercise their rights of supervision to eliminate waste.”

1949 April, John Baker White, “How's Business in Russia?”, in The Atlantic:

The official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and successor papers.


Daily Heil

Referring to the Nazi slogan "heil Hitler". Originated from the newspaper's support of fascism in the early 1930s.

They even made the mistaken assumption, mainly from the title, that the song had some kind of lesbian message. As Heike put it: 'You can't expect the subliterate cockwombles on the Daily Heil showbiz and gossip desks to have read Orwell.'

2015, Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking:

(UK, slang, derogatory) The Daily Mail newspaper.


semiprozine

A semiprofessionally edited publication.


The S*n

From the name of the UK newspaper The Sun, implying that even referring to it by name is offensive. Used particularly in Liverpool since shortly after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, which The Sun falsely attributed to hooliganism by Liverpool FC fans.

Billionaire entrepreneur Lord Sugar has slammed The S*n newspaper for their Hillsborough coverage after they mocked him for falling for a Twitter hoax.

2016 January 1, Dan Kay, “Lord Sugar slams The S*n over Hillsborough and backs Liverpool boycott”, in Liverpool Echo:

(UK, especially Liverpool, sometimes humorous, derogatory) Censored spelling of the Sun; a British tabloid newspaper.

Hillsborough disaster
Liverpool FC
The Sun (United Kingdom)


girly mag

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-girly mag.wav


city desk

There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.

1940, Helen Hughes, News and the Human Interest Story, page 21:

(Canada, US, newspapers) The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.

Many expected the then editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, who had traded stock on the basis of his city desk's inside tips, to be fired, but he retained the support of the company, until eventually a bigger, ethical scandal involving faked pictures forced him from office.

2014, Ian Hargreaves, Journalism: A Very Short Introduction, page 87:

(British, newspapers) The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing financial and business news.


binology

(journalism, UK) the ethically questionable practice of searching through the dustbins of celebrities and other public figures to obtain information for use in tabloid newspapers


diskazine

Although none of the diskazines states on its cover that it requires a color monitor, the games in one we looked at would not run without one.

Video "brochures," in the form of videotaped presentations in cassette form about new computer software programs that are being sold in computer stores. "Diskazines" or "magazettes," which are nothing more than magazines on floppy disks.

1990, E. W. Brody, Communication tomorrow: new audiences, new technologies, new media:


Old Gray Lady

(informal) The New York Times, a newspaper in New York City, NY, United States.


Trekzine

The aloofness and emotional control of Vulcans has driven many of Star Trek's female viewers crazy, for the almost-stated first principle of the Vulcan Love Story of the Trekzines is to break into the inner emotional nature of the outwardly calm Vulcan.

1975, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, Joan Winston, Star Trek Lives!, page 86:

You are the only Trekzine of your kind, and besides that, you are of consistently high quality and classy, both in format and execution.

1981, Walter Irwin, G. B. Love, editors, The Best of Trek: From the Magazine for Star Trek, page 75:

The early Trekzine publishers like Devra Langsam, editor of the aforementioned Spockanalia and later of Masiform D, used mimeo, often with astonishingly good results.

1997 October 29, Judygran, “Re: Fanfic, Writing 'n' Stuff (Re: Slash writers (long)(reply is long too!)”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(dated, fandom slang) A Star Trek fanzine.


newspaporial

en-adj

newspaporial (comparative more newspaporial, superlative most newspaporial)

more newspaporial (comparative)
most newspaporial (superlative)

A vast proportion of them seem to have been christened in what 'Squire Western calls 'a spirit of contrary,' some few of which I will examine, premising at the same time that I feel neighter 'envy, hatred, malice, nor any uncharitableness' towards any of those who 'have lived long on the alms-basket of words,' having laboured myself not exactly in editorial harness, but merely by an occasional application of my shoulder to the 'newspaporial' wheel.

1832, Nathaniel Ames, Nautical Reminiscences, page 193:

But they had not joined the army to engage in the newspaporial business.

1866, Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, Iowa and the Rebellion, page 376:

He offered advice: "Recollect that for Newspaporial purposes, a broader treatment hits a broader mark; and keep bearing that way as much as you can with comfort.

1953, Leon Edel, Henry James: The conquest of London, 1870-1881, page 71:

“[I have] been led to neglect its utterances by their lack of 'terseness,' 'crispness,' 'raciness,' and other 'newspaporial' virtues, though I could discern that Dewey himself was laboring with a big freight, towards the light.

2011, Mark J. Porrovecchio, F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism:

Characteristic of or pertaining to newspapers.


ladymag

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-ladymag.wav

Coordinate term: lad mag

Slowly and mechanically, without really seeing anything, I leafed through the pages of a big fat silky ladymag.

1972, Jean Shepherd, The Ferrari in the Bedroom, unnumbered page (originally published in Car & Driver)

OK, despite a hefty cleavage, the standard cover girl for a trashy ladymag stops short of nipple exposure, but that doesn't mean women's magazines (and, as we saw, even teen magazines) don't heavily 'laddify' their content.

2014, Holly Baxter, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media, page 263:

Namely, that perhaps the national media was poised to acknowledge en masse the smart, serious work already being published by the ladymags—and that perhaps ladymags might be reinventing themselves for an increasingly savvy audience, sick of pandering.

2014 May 12, Alexis Sobel Fitts, “The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Coles’ Cosmopolitan”, in Columbia Journal Review:

(informal) A magazine which focuses on women's issues and interests.


Cosmospeak

Cosmopolitan, the magazine that goes on and on asking women in italicized Cosmospeak: “Don't you just love loving men, and don't you feel just miserable when you don't have a man to love, and wouldn't you love to learn how to love them better, and without fear or guilt and—best of all—to get the right one to love you?”

1974 August 11, Stephanie Harrington, “Ms. versus Cosmo”, in The New York Times:

Granted, these living Love Magnets must meet tough criteria. They must be good-looking, "self-made men" (that's Cosmospeak for "a nice bank account").

1989 March 14, Moira Bailey, “Bachelor No. 1 Faces Dating Game's Toughest Questions”, in The Orlando Sentinel:

She is also one of the stars of a politics spread in Cosmopolitan. In Cosmospeak, Clare, left, is an apparat-chick, a party girl, one of a new generation of young people who have embraced politics because they are tired of the way the aforementioned suits are ruining the country.

1995 September 19, “Power-dressing of party apparat-chick”, in The Herald, Scotland:

The characteristic jargon and copy style of Cosmopolitan magazine.


Trib

Jeans also had recently finished writing Tropical Disturbance: The Story of the Making of the Miami Tribune. The book, which was published as a special insert in the Trib, was both a history of the newspaper and Jeans's valentine to himself.

2019, Willie Drye, Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, page 244:

(slang) Any newspaper called The Tribune.


Graun

That the Graun's effort is part of a coordinated new offensive in that department is pretty conclusively illustrated by […]

2017, Martin Gitlin, When Is Free Speech Hate Speech?, page 134:

(newspapers, humorous) Clipping of Grauniad (“The Guardian newspaper”).


photomagazine

A magazine (periodical publication) in which photographs feature prominently.

畫報

magazine in which photographs feature prominiently


colour supplement

en-noun

colour supplement (plural colour supplements)

A glossy colour magazine issued with a newspaper, typically covering arts, fashion, lifestyle, etc.


quality newspaper

quality newspaper (plural quality newspapers)

Coordinate term: quality magazine

A newspaper designed to appeal to readers of superior education or culture.


The Scum

Used since the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, which The Sun falsely blamed on Liverpool FC fans, leading to a boycott in Liverpool.


news report

(journalism, newspapers) An individual item of news.


wall newspaper

A newspaper or similar document designed to be displayed on a vertical surface for reading by the public.


NYP

North Yorkshire Police
w:North Yorkshire Police


SCMP

South China Morning Post
w:South China Morning Post

Initialism of South China Morning Post, a newspaper published in Hong Kong.


comiczine

[…] MUSICZINES, PERSONALZINES, PUNKZINES, COMICZINES OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.

2002, Aaron Cometbus, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, page 133:

A zine dealing with the topic of comics.


down-page

(journalism, newspapers) Of an article or story, appearing in a relatively low position on the page.


Currant Bun

Currant Bun (canonical)
the Currant Bun (canonical)

Had to go further down the road to get me Currant Bun / "Hello isn't that George on page one?"

1979, “In the Middle of the Night”, performed by Madness:

THAT painfully honest little newspaper, the Sun, was boiling with indignation yesterday about the case of the Tory minister who tried to smear Paddy Ashdown. […] Imagine, for instance, this call. […] K[elvin] M[acKenzie]: “Paddy Pantsdown? We done ’im already, Douggie. Don’t you read the Currant Bun?” […] Two weeks ago the editor of the Independent, a daily paper, was being screamed at by the Sun (aided by Britain’s biggest tabloid, the Sunday Times). Why? For having the unspeakable nerve to reveal all about Mrs Bottomley. We’ll get you, warned the Currant Bun.

1992 July 22, Andrew Moncur, “Diary”, in The Guardian, London, page 21, columns 1–5:

He normally read the Sun, swearing it was the best indicator of what would happen to the FTSE. His theory was simple: so many of the barrow boys trading on LIFFE read the currant bun that the markets were bound to do whatever its money column said.

2008, Nicola Monaghan, Starfishing, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 87:

A friend returns from Istanbul to report spotting him reclining by the pool with a copy of The Sun resting atop the pile of papers on the drinks table. This wouldn’t go down well back home, where the Scousers still boycott the paper 20 years after its Hillsborough coverage. Many Brits go abroad to indulge tastes discouraged here but Stevie G is the first case of someone flying to Turkey to read the Currant Bun in safety.

2009 July 7, Matthew Norman, “[Sporting Miscellanies] Stevie G risks wrath as he soaks up The Sun”, in Evening Standard, London, page 50, columns 1–2:

After the bruising experience of Thursday morning, [Liz] Truss attempted a different tack, writing a piece for The Sun. In the article, which went online late on Friday evening, she told the paper’s readers that when she became Prime Minister, her government “could not afford to dither or delay”. […] Truss, a Remainer turned Brexit true believer, is clearly unfit for the post she has not yet held for a month and no number of flimsy articles in the Currant Bun will shake that widely held view.

2022 October 2, Euan McColm, “Truss a ‘crank theorist’ whose experiments cause chaos: The new Prime Minister appears to have scant regard for the impact of her Government’s actions on voters worried about the impact on their pensions, mortgages and jobs”, in Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 2022-10-02, page 8:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang) The Sun (British newspaper).


Chocolate Factory

Humorous nickname of Google, coined by the UK technological newspaper The Register.

The Chocolate Factory has appealed the Epic verdict and also plans to challenge the DoJ's victory.

2024 August 15, Thomas Claburn, “Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious”, in The Register: