Barely on the stands a day, Shock magazine may be recalled and pulped, if a photographer has his way. According to a story in Ad Age, the inaugural cover features a photograph of a G.I. holding a woun...
Latest circulation results for The Walrus indicates that it continues to grow, having increased average qualified circulation by about 8.8% since this time last year.The average qualified paid circula...
U of T Magazine has become the 7th glossy Canadian title to switch to ancient forest-friendly paper (100% post-consumer recycled stock), effective wi...
Canadian Press reports that Doris Saunders, the founding editor of Them Days magazine and widely recognized for her work to preserve the history of Labrador, has died in St. John's at the age of 64.Th...
It happens less often than it ought to: an editor of a major magazine paying tribute to one of his senior editors. In the June issue of Report on Business magazine, Editor Laas Turnbull devotes his Ed...
In the recently released Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) study of the freelance writing sector in Canada, (available from pwac.ca) it was interesting to find out that full-time freel...
Ten per cent of Harper's magazine's total circulation comes from the Canadian market, so it's not a small deal when Indigo Books and Music pulls all the single copies from its 260 stores , as the Glob...
Maclean's is being noticed in some unexpected quarters. The Las Vegas Sun has taken notice of the recent Maclean's feature on Canada's fears that the U.S. is going to make a grab for Canadian water, a...
Let it be a lesson to all of us: good covers count. A thorough-going and very handsome redesign of The Beaver magazine (published by Canada's National History Society) is reaping the fruits of that in...
Will this be a case of closing the barn door after the cow has escaped? In New York, Quark XPress has released Version 7 of the 25-year-old software package, trumpeting some 160 changes and improvemen...
At last, a new Editor has been appointed at Chatelaine. The magazine has been without an editor for 9 months, since the resignation of Kim Pittaway.A brief announcement today by Publisher Kerry Mitche...
Michael Fox, the acknowledged industry expert on Canadian postal matters, has released another of his periodic reports on Canada Post pricing. Fox is Senior Vice-President, Circulation and Development...
All the dubious pleasures of ogling a traffic accident will be brought right to your newsstand or doorstep as a new magazine called Shock, a North American version of the French Choc, debuts in Canada...
The Gourlays, Linda and Jim, are among Canada's highest energy publishers with their magazine Saltscapes out of Halifax. They have been aggressively building the brand and, according to a story in tod...
For those magazines which use telephone polling as a way of reaching or probing reader attitudes, a lonnnnggg study by Pew Research Centre in the U.S. found that the difficulty reaching cellphone-only...
Oh, dear. It's not bad enough that web and online and podcasts and whatever else is threatening magazines as we know them (I'm kidding, really), now comes along some research that shows magazine "...
Montreal-based Quebecor Inc. (a significant magazine player and the largest magazine printer) is accusing Transcontinental Inc. (the largest consumer magazine player and one of the largest printers) o...
Traditional Home magazine has published its latest psychographic breakdown of the all-consuming affluent American female population, beloved bedrock of women's service and shelter publishing, accordin...
Here's an article where a puzzled writer talks to three experts and finds three different views of the current state and future of the magazine business.“Consumer magazines are being hit on all sides,...
According to Media in Canada, Transcontinental will debut Canadian Smart Living in September, a mag focusing on consumer electronics and lifestyle. It will be included as a reader premium in more than...
The Professional Writers of Canada (PWAC) have released a major study they did of the earnings of freelance writers in this country and the results are bracing: Real earnings for freelance writers in ...
Tonight attended the 1st annual Publication Show at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. Lamentably, this show only runs for 3 days, but if you're able, go and see it. Or make a note in y...
It's a great pleasure to see that Michael Fox has been named Magazines Canada Volunteer of the Year for 2005. It's a brand new award and he well deserves to be its first recipient. Fox is Senior Vice-...
It may have rounded the corner into its second year (see earlier item) but it almost immediately stumbled into oblivion. Dose, the "daily magazine" is no more. It was launched in April 2005 ...
Harvey Botting, the head of trade publishing for Rogers Media, is taking early retirement. Botting's decision to retire makes him only the latest of the senior vice-presidents to leave Rogers (earlie...
A sister publication to Glow, published by Rogers Media for Shoppers Drug Mart, has been launched. Pure magazine went on newsstands across Quebec yesterday, according to Media in Canada. It will be p...
The former President and owner of CB Media and publisher of Canadian Business, the Honourable Roy MacLaren, PC, has been appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a Commissioner of the Public Appo...
George Bain, who for many years wrote for Maclean's magazine as well as anchoring the main political column for the Globe and Mail, has died in Halifax, aged 86. Bain, who recently lived in Mahone Bay...
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a letter (which it solicited) from Dr. John Hoey, the former editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Dr. Hoey says that, while the CMA ref...
That giant sucking sound you heard was QuarkXpress going down the drain at Rogers Media. All publications are to switch over to Adobe In Design as soon as it can be managed. Quark launched QuarkXpress...
Winner in the magazine category of the Canadian Church Press 'Awards of Merit' given out this week was The United Church Observer, which was hailed for inspiring readers to "explore and apply the...
Congratulation to Dose, the "daily magazine" from CanWest MediaWorks, which this week celebrated its first year of publication. I admit my continuing scepticism about their business model, ...
The guiding principle in magazine awards is "you can't win it if you're not in it"; lots of entries usually result in some nominations, which in turn can result in a couple of wins. But not ...
A family owned company that prints many Canadian magazines has been given the 2006 CICA Family Enterprise of the Year Award by The Canadian Association of Family Enterprise (CAFE) and the Canadian Ins...
According to the International Federation of the Periodical Press, Marquard Media AG, the Swiss publisher, has launched a Russian version of JOY. It is its latest of 10 international editions pf the ...
The May-June issue of This Magazine was like a sudoku puzzle for subscribers, with pagination in one copy going 1-6, 15-22, 7-14, 31-46 and some forms/pages missing altogether, including an article on...
Many of Canada's best art directors and designers have graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto; many others have passed through in one way or another. The graduate students a...
"HERE is the most important thing you need to know about Star: It is not a magazine; it is a picture book that chronicles celebrity distress.... shines in a lesser galaxy, where celebrity is jus...
If you've written anything about literacy issues in a Canadian magazine, you might want to consider submitting it to the Gzowski awards. The Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit was developed by ABC ...
Frequency of message has been, for many years, a foundation of selling magazine advertising. But, as Paul Parton points out in the May issue of Media (Media Post): "Frequency suggests that you ca...
Trafalgar Productions, which publishes a controlled-circ youth entertainment bimonthly Access, has struck a deal with The Forzani Group to start distribution in October of a 100,000-circ glossy called...
The Tyee is an online magazine published out of Vancouver and it frequently brings an fresh perspective on the issues of the day. That's the case with its article defending Michael Ignatieff, by Shefa...
The Toronto Star's prolific blogger Antonia Zerbisias has posted that an editor is about to be named for Chatelaine and that it is a Canadian. We were beginning to wonder if the Publisher Kerry Mitche...
The fifth annual Canadian Newsstand Awards finalists have been announced. The release and the complete list of nominees can be found here and all nominated covers may be seen there, too. The winners a...
the most serious competitive threat to traditional journalism doesn't come from bloggers and their compatriots. It comes instead from businesses that are also using technology's power. They're winnin...
Perhaps it's not a surprise, given the source, but a writer in the Ottawa Sun on Monday accused Adbusters magazine of anti-Semitism. Jordan Michael Smith, in a column headed 'Anti-Semitism still lurks...
The gold award winner for magazine articles in the Atlantic Journalism Awards given out on Saturday evening in Halifax was Joanne MacPherson, for her article 'Home Sweet Home' in Saltscapes, Dartmouth...
There is a bull market these days in articles that start out: "The traditional magazine model is dead." Which is how a May 7 article in the New York Times (free sub requ'd), by Jessica Press...
There must be more to this story: Geist magazine has been expelled by BPA Worldwide, the circulation audit firm, effective April 26. The text of the announcement:At a meeting of the BPA Worldwide Exec...
One of the founders of Homemaker's magazine, Gordon Badger, passed away April 30. His death notice in the Globe and Mail said the death, aged 70, was unexpected. He had apparently married just last mo...
"We're not narrow, we're svelte."-- Peter Kaplan, editor of The New York Observer, commenting on announced reduction in width of the paper to save money."Salmon, sliced thinner"-- ...
Rob Gregory, group publisher of Maxim, and Dana Fields, executive publisher of FHM were recently interviewed by Media Life about the current state of men's magazines, in light of the recent slump in a...
The fox is in the barnyard, but apparently we are also inviting him into the henhouse. Transcontinental Media has so enjoyed its partnership with Elle magazine (publishing Elle Quebec and Elle Canada...
In what must be a coup for a small magazine published out of Montreal, the current issue of Warrior carries an interview by contributing editor and Democracy Now producer Aaron Mate with muckraking j...
Information released at the annual general meeting of Torstar Corporation indicate the Weekly Scoop launch last fall, cost $1 million and Torstar executives were quoted yesterday saying they expect th...
In yet another loose strand of a story that has unravelled steadily over the past few months, the chair of the panel launched by the Canadian Medical Association to recommend a new governance structur...
The U.S. Postal Service today filed a rate case for a system-wide increase of 8.5 per cent, with magazines looking at an average of 11.4%. Combined with the 5.4 per cent postal increase in January, sa...
Kathryn Swan, who resigned as Publisher of Torstar's Weekly Scoop in February, has emerged again handling business development for a new publication being developed by Transcontinental Media. This is ...
"This is truly a disruptive era for traditional media businesses. And from all that I read, and from everyone I talk with, I don’t think anyone can safely predict which business models are going ...
Here's a fun way to pass the time. Joe Friedman, who writes the column Media Web in MarketWatch, has handicapped the (U.S.) National Magazine Awards, giving his picks and possible "dark horses&qu...
In his opening essay recently on the Sunday Edition, CBC host Michael Enright came to the aid of the Western Standard in its struggle with the Alberta Human Rights Commission over the Standard's decis...
Toronto freelance writer Michael Smith wrote a "scientific whodunit" for University Affairs magazine (published by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada). And the story of t...
The federal Conservative government has effectively repudiated two-thirds of a $150 million cash injection promised last fall to the The Canada Council for the Arts. The budget announced on Tuesday gi...
Metro, the free daily newspaper that litters the Toronto and Montreal subway is apparently trying to do something about this problem, in New York. Uniformed attendants will 'recycle' up to 40,000 copi...
The Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement has been one of the outstanding achievements of the National Magazine Awards. It is an opportunity to highlight people who have made a real difference ...
The Walrus has been nominated an astounding 49 times* for this year's National Magazine Awards. The nominees represent over 300 articles in 75 different magazines, and were chosen from over 2,300 tota...
"A problem for many magazine publishers is that they serve several customer segments, forcing a dual focus, or sometimes a focus on more than two audiences. That’s the brutal reality of static me...
Like a good investigative reporter he is, Masthead editor Bill Shields has revealed some of the changes being proposed for industry advertising guidelines. The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors gui...
The church and state boundaries get fuzzier by the day. The most recent example was TQ magazine, published by the Globe and Mail and distributed last Wednesday. In fact, it is a handsome and interesti...
Melanie Fogel, the editor of Storyteller magazine, has been shortlisted for Arthur Ellis Award, this country's top prize for excellence in crime writing.She was nominated for Best Short Story for her ...
The Time magazine 100 is on newsstands today and three Canadians made the list: Basketball MVP Steve Nash is a Hero and Icon; Stewart Butterfield of Vancouver who, with his American-born wife Cat...