Institution

Acceptation and negotiation
The main jobs of a magazine publisher are producing and distribution the magazine.
Firstly a magazine company will have to agree or accept themed work. After deciding on the work a fee will be negotiated for the royalties for the licensor. The author is normally paid in advance. This is difficult for publishers considering they have to estimate potential sales against production costs.
After acquiring the rights, the magazine begins to be put together.
Editorial stage
Once the commercial decisions are made, the author is sometimes asked to improve work. Publishers may have a house style which they need to maintain and the staff will copy edit ensuring the work matches the style and grammatical requirements for the specific target audience. Editing may also involve structural changes and requests for more information. Some publishers employ fact checkers.
Prepress
Once a text is decided on, a design is needed. This will include the layout of the magazine, possible font colour to match the set theme and artwork. The activities of page layout, is now all computerized. This evolved in the 20th century.
Publishing.
The publishers of the magazine usually control advertising and marketing. Writers in a specialized field or with a smaller appeal have found smaller alternatives to the mass market in the form of self publishing . More recently, these options include ebook format.
Today, publishing academic journals and textbooks is a large part of an international industry. Critics claim that profit-oriented policies have displaced the publishing ideal of providing access to all. However In contrast to the commercial model, there is non profit publishing, where the publishing organization is either organised specifically for the purpose of publishing, such as a university which is founded just to achieve specific goals.
Tie-in publications: Technically published information or form of advertisement aimed at a specific target audience. For example in cinemas, on certain television channels at set times, and on the radio. For music the marketing of a new album often includes a novelisation , Posters, Clothing, Different music formats (vinyl, cd mp3.) and endless promotional publications The 21st century has bought a number of new technilogical changes to the publishing industry, such as online versions of kerrang. In todays media one main publishing organsiation could be the head of many magazines varing form music to home, cars and even boats.
This is evidenced through the publication of the New Musical Express being part of the IPC media group which is owned by Time Inc, the publishing division of Time warner. Basically publishers are owned by a series of parent groups.
Its clear that most magazine publications are produced in order to make money. In this day and age, money is the main reason behind most things. Nme gives the impression to its readers the magazine is individual and cool, but behind that it is a money making orgnaizaiton on which people idle their lives wanting to pay for a identity, therefore i am not surprise NME is part of the IPC media group..
Theodore Adorno was a keen inventor of a certain theory that he products of the culture industries are, Formulaic, Simplistic and Emotive
The culture industries stop people from thinking, questioning and making political judgments. Therefore, the goal of the culture industries is to depoliticise the masses. Furthermore, they give the impression of providing variety, but this is ‘Psuedo-individualism. This is the case in nme.