Institutional research and legal restraints.

Bauer media is a large company in charge of many different types of magazines from fashion to sport. Because my chosen genre of magazine is sport here are a few sport magazines produced by Bauer. 

Golf world, Match and Today golfer are all part of the Bauer media institute.

Rodale is a magazine publisher which publishes many sport magazines and many running magazines. It is the publisher of Men's Health, Prevention, Women's Health, Runner's World, Running Times, Bicycling, and Rodale's Organic Life, Rodale Inc. is the global voice of health and wellness, providing actionable, authoritative, and engaging content.




In terms of UK based magazines publishers, Wireless group plc, formerly U TV Media plc  is a broadcasting and new media company based in Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. It produces magazines such as:Sport.

For my magazine,as it is regional I will be aiming for a regional publisher. A publisher such as DC Media, who are based in Truro, Cornwall. I think they will be a good publisher for my magazines as they publish popular magazines such as Cornwall today.







Regarding the regulatory body regulating my area, IPSO is the one in charge.

Legal restraints When it comes to publishing a magazine, there are many legal constraints which the company must abide by and take into account, especially magazines that focus people and gossip. The reason being is that it is very easy to represent a person or group of people in the wrong way within the magazine and what the editors write, with that said, there are rules and legal constraints that are set out on what magazines can publish and what they cant publish. The people who decide upon what can and cannot be published is a company called 'Press Complaints Commission' (PCC) and also 'Advertisement Standards Agency' (ASA) who are both based in the UK and are the regulating bodies for publishing and advertising.There are many laws under the Human Rights Act 1998 which prohibit bodies from defamation, trespassing, nuisance, surveillance and harassment and if breached are able to take legal action which includes suing the company from damages to get compensation. When it come to photos and images you have to be very careful on what photos are taken, especially common photos of celebrities on the beach where they are half dressed  and young children etc. If I have an older target audience, the photos I use, will have to appropriate for target audience age I am aiming the magazine at.