Magazines are undergoing a period of significant change. Will they survive? You decide! This section of the Component 2 exam makes sure that you have to consider context in everything you analyse, which is why the set texts are so different.

Out first product may well be a household name but we will b traveling back to the mid 1960s to study an edition which reveals a very different era. But to what extent?

Our second magazine product is unique in many ways - but especially in its distribution. The question is; does a magazine which has the USP of helping the homeless simply by being purchased, have similar ideological aspirations in its journalism?