trade journals

Professional sector magazines

Trade journals are periodicals covering news, trends, and developments within a specific industry or profession.

Unlike general-interest magazines, they target practitioners—doctors reading medical journals, engineers reading engineering publications, retailers reading about retail: She found the job listing in a trade journal.

Also called trade publications or trade magazines.

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Top 500,000
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