Pandemic Magazine Covers

HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC BEEN REPRESENTED ON MAGAZINE COVERS?
March 2020 – January 2022 [Most recent covers are posted last.]

a database collection for analysis and deconstruction/created by Frank Baker

A sample of the hundreds of magazine covers from the US and around the world and how they report the Coronavirus pandemic on their covers.

NEW: Visual literacy/ Media Literacy Lesson Plan Using These Covers
LEARN HOW TO INCORPORATE THESE COVERS INTO INSTRUCTION:
WATCH the archive of the May 13, 2021 Magazine Media Literacy webinar here.

Sources include:  Google,  issuu, Magzter,  FreeMagazinePDF, Worldmags, Downmagaz

Teaching Suggestions: Have students brainstorm a list of every possible business or industry–then invite them to locate a magazine cover that portrays the virus.  Invite students to consider: which images are used to communicate the virus; how each cover is different; how they might be similar; who is the audience for each; determine a magazine’s circulation; how one or more might communicate/represent fear; what techniques are used to attract attention? Determine how many magazines are news, sports, arts, medical, family, business; which ones might not be represented?  Invite your students to create their own cover, using magazine cover software.

Find a cover that’s not listed? Send it to me: fbaker1346@gmail.com    Magazine Cover Design (explained)
Even more covers at CoverJunkie  and Frontpage News

 









 



 

 






























 











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