magazinism

magazinism

English

Etymology

magazine +‎ -ism

Noun

magazinism (uncountable)

1. The practice of writing for magazines, or in a style suited to magazines.
   • 1894, John Macmillan Brown, Manual of English Literature: Era of Expansion, 1750-1850 (page 94)

     The style of Brougham and Jeffrey and Sydney Smith was moulded by their oratorical pursuits; and it gave the cue to magazinism through the earlier part of the period.

   • 2010, David Marc, Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture (page 135)

     It is no wonder that the television industry has shied away from the dangers of discovery and committed itself to the ideology of demographic magazinism.

   • 2021, Jay Williams, Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907

     "I have no income save what my pen brings me in the magazine and newspaper field." (Note that field is not plural; here he is thinking of both yellow journalism and yellow magazinism).