Welcome to Writing for Popular Magazines!
You're going to read a few magazine articles during this course.
Where do you start? Looking at the massed ranks of magazines in a newsagent and wondering what to choose can be discombobulating.
I like this site: http://www.aldaily.com/
It's on Wikipedia, of course: "It features links to a diverse array of high-quality news stories, features and reviews from throughout the online Anglosphere. In this, it has some of the characteristics of a weblog. Access is free, and it receives around 3.7 million page views per month."
It's like an online version of Review in Friday's Fin Review. Except it's hard to read it on the toilet. And it's a lot longer. And it has links.
"Each link is introduced with a 25-word teaser," says Wikipedia. "The teasers are often witty and provocative and are particularly popular with A&L Daily's readers. Examples of teasers include..."
Have a look at A&L Daily, and enjoy...
