The article presents a pragmatic and linguistic analysis of a special type of media reporting—a news magazine, conducted with respect to verbal and nonverbal means used by media broadcasters in order to create most attractive reports for an average media consumer. Attractiveness is understood here as an ability to get and hold viewers’ attention. The analysis of 14 evening editions of Fakty, emitted from 8th until 20th May 2009, as well as a constant monitoring of the media, demonstrated that attractiveness understood in this special way is influenced by: 1) dramaturgy of the program achieved by operating with such means as sound and picture, the choice of subjects, taking into account psychology of the audience, their composition and the w...