Magazine Project Genre Research - Sports Illustrated Magazine

Sports Illustrated Magazine 

For the cover of Sports Illustrated, they have a picture taking up the majority of the space. In the issue I looked at, it was Emoni Bates who the main story was on. They also have several smaller blurbs that advertise what other articles are inside. The cover isn't too busy, so it doesn't overwhelm the reader. It features the title in the classic font, that is consistent across all their issues; the rest of the cover follows the same format as the others but there is some variety. For the table of contents, it follows the same format as a standard table of contents. Theres a little description of each of the main article and then it has the things that are in every issue. The articles for the magazine, they center around different kinds of sports. In this specific issue, it seems to focus on mostly basketball but they also talk about golf, football, and baseball too. They also have articles about problems that are happening in the sports world. For the ads in the magazine, they mostly have to do with things that the Sports Illustrated audience is also interested. Companies that have ads in this issue include: NFL, Firestone Tires, and other projects that Sports Illustrated is working on. The ads are generally every few pages, it seems to be about half ads and half actual content. The distribution number for the magazine is 3,023,197. Sports Illustrated has won a number of National Magazine awards such as Feature Writing, General Excellence, and Profiles.