Q. What's the difference between a magazine and a journal?

Magazines contain articles, written for a general audience by journalists, freelance or staff writers, intended to:

• Inform, entertain, cover, sell - secondary source
• Currents events, hot  issues,
• Commentaries on social/political issues

Journals contain articles, written for scholarly readers by experts in the field , intended to:

• Report scholarly research - primary source
• Share expertise