Magazine Project Genre Research: Sports Illustrated

Cover Layout: The cover layout is very intriguing and eye appealing. It has an NFL star, Julio Jones, standing in the middle of the page with darkness surrounding him. There is lots of black. The text used is white and red and Julio's jersey is red. Sports Illustrated uses lots of bold fonts, using different sized text, italics and different colored text. There are also lots of different descriptions of smaller articles that are found throughout the magazine. On the cover there is only one picture and it is of an NFL standing making a serious face.

Articles Included: The articles included talk about the biggest stories based on the wide variety of sports. It is very diverse based on what current events are going on in sports. There is also the main article based on who/what is on the cover page. These articles appear on every other page usually. 

Advertisements: There are many different types of ads but all of them are meant for middle aged men. For example there are multiple ads for cars, tequila, cologne and many more. The advertisements usually appear in between articles or at the end of the articles. Sometime there are smaller ads in the middle of articles.

Table of Contents/Article Pictures: On the table of contents there is only one picture and it is of the same person that is on the cover page: Julio Jones. All of the other photos used throughout the magazine in the articles are all action photos. This means that the pictures used are all of athletes playing their sport in a real game or match.

Distribution Number: November 20-27, 2017 Double Issue

 Awards Nominated/Won: 2015 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage

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