All expenses for the present will be borne by the Cosmopolitan. No conditions, except a pledge of a given number of hours of study. Surprised by the response, Walker was unable to finance the venture and had to ask students to contribute 20 dollars a year for their education.
Hearst recruited the well-known investigative journalist, Charles Edward Russell , to work for the magazine. July, - January, Alfred Henry Lewis was also employed by Cosmopolitan. This included the series Owners of America - Another outstanding journalist employed by Hearst was David Graham Phillips. This included the series, The Treason of the Senate , in This was considered to be one of the most important investigations of the muckraking period of journalism.
The Cosmopolitan also began employing top illustrators including James M. In the s Cosmopolitan offered three serials and ten short stories. The first section contained one novelette, six or eight short stories, two serials, six to eight articles, and eight or nine special features.
The other three sections contained a complete short novel, a normal length novel and a digest of current non-fiction books. Sales of Cosmopolitan during the Second World War reached over 2,, copies. In the s there was a decrease in the demand for fiction. Sales of the magazine dropped dramatically. The size of the Cosmopolitan was reduced and although circulation was only just over a million in , the magazine was still a profitable concern. Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be, and vastly more dangerous: interests that manipulate the prosperity produced by all, so that it heaps up riches for the few; interests whose growth and power can only mean the degradation of the people, of the educated into sycophants, of the masses toward serfdom.
The Senators are not elected by the people; they are elected by the "interests". A servant obeys him who can punish and dismiss. Except in extreme and rare and negligible instances can the people either elect or dismiss a senator? Where was Helen Gurley Brown born? Green Forest, Arkansas, United States. Who is the target audience for Cosmopolitan magazine? Who's it aimed at? Cosmopolitan's target market is to year-old women, but not just anyone can be a Cosmo girl.
Why is it called a cosmopolitan? According to Murray, he added a splash of cranberry juice to a Kamikaze and the first taster declared, "How cosmopolitan. Is Cosmopolitan a reliable source? It is generally reliable for subjects in the authors' areas of expertise.
There is no consensus on the reliability of Cosmopolitan. It is generally regarded as a situational source, which means context is important. Where is Cosmopolitan magazine headquarters? The Cosmopolitan office is located at W. The Golden Age of magazines came to an end as mass market , general interest publications gave way to special interest magazines targeting specialized audiences.
Cosmopolitan' s circulation continued to decline for another decade until Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in and remodeled the magazine as New Cosmopolitan and re-invented it as a magazine for modern single career women. The magazine eventually adopted a cover format consisting of a usually young female model, typically in a low cut dress or bikini.
The magazine set itself apart by frankly discussing sex from the point of view that women could and should enjoy sex without guilt. The first issue under Helen Gurley Brown featured an article on the then new birth control pill. This was not Brown's first publication dealing with sexually liberated women.
Her advice book, Sex and the Single Girl , had been a bestseller. Brown sent the message that a woman should have men complement her life, not take it over. Enjoying sex without shame was also a message she incorporated in both publications.
In Brown's early years as editor, the magazine received heavy criticism. The magazine ran a near-nude centerfold of actor Burt Reynolds in April , causing great controversy and attracting much attention. In April , a single edition of Cosmopolitan Man was published as a trial, targeted to appeal to men. It was published twice in as a supplement to Cosmopolitan.
The magazine, and in particular its cover stories, have become increasingly sexually explicit in tone, and covers have models wearing revealing clothes. Kroger , the largest largest grocery chain in the United States, used to cover up Cosmopolitan at checkout stands because of complaints about sexually inappropriate headlines. It was well known for sexual explicitness, with strong sexual language, male nudity and coverage of such subjects as rape.
It shut down in December The magazine currently features topics including sex, relationships, beauty, fashion and health.
The advice and feature articles in the US edition are written to a presumed audience of white women. Cosmopolitan has 64 international editions worldwide published in 35 languages with distribution in more than countries making Cosmopolitan the largest-selling young women's magazine in the world. The magazine also had once been published in Denmark , Georgia , Israel , Japan , Kenya , Norway and Sweden , but has since ceased publication. Cosmopolitan has since the sixties been a women's magazine discussing such topics as sex, health, fitness and fashion.
Cosmopolitan also has a section called "Ask Him Anything" where a male writer answers readers' questions about men and dating. In , Nicole Scherzinger won the award. Pictures and profiles of all the Bachelors are posted on www. A team of Cosmopolitan editors then selects the Bachelor of the Year, who is announced at an annual party and media event in New York.
The 50 bachelors generally appear on programs such as The Today Show. Past Winners Include. Practice Safe Sun: In the May issue of Cosmopolitan , the magazine launched the Practice Safe Sun campaign, an initiative aimed at fighting skin cancer by asking readers to stop all forms of tanning other than tanning from a bottle.
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