Trade magazine: Difference between revisions

{{short description|Periodical dedicated to a particular field}}

A '''trade magazine''', also called a '''trade journal''', or '''trade paper''' (colloquially or disparagingly a '''trade rag'''), is a [[magazine]] or newspaper whose [[target audience]] is people who work in a particular [[tradesman|trade]] or industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/research/types-sources.html|title=Magazines, trade journals, and scholarly journals|last=Virginia Tech Libraries|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213001410/http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/research/types-sources.html|archive-date=2017-02-13|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-02-12}}</ref> The collective term for this area of publishing is the '''trade press'''.<ref name="dictionary.cambridge.org">{{Citation|title=Cambridge Business English Dictionary|url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/business-english/the-trade-press|author=dictionary.cambridge.org}}</ref>