The New Quarterly, an award-winning and critically acclaimed literary magazine published in Waterloo is presenting two spoken word programs drawn from its pages, in Stratford this summer (one, next we...
It's a sideline issue about another medium, but there is one interesting aspect about the announcement yesterday about TV Ontario's revamp. A story in today's Toronto Star says that one of the outcome...
The devil may be in the details, but not in Prada, in Canada at least. Comparisons with the just-released movie, The Devil Wears Prada, based on former Vogue intern Lauren Weisberger's "fictional...
Cut down by its investors twice before, hip New York magazine Radar is taking another run, according to an interview with the New York Times. Maer Roshan said the magazine’s web site will be launched ...
The Audit Bureau of Circulations is rolling out "Rapid Reporting". An article in Folio: says that consumer magazine members in good standing will be allowed voluntarily to report their top-l...
Half the magazines published in Canada are published in Ontario, so it's a big deal when there's some money available. The Ontario Media Development Corporation has put out a call for its Magazine Fun...
More than half the executives who read business to business magazines (B2B) have acted on an ad they saw, according to a new study by Harris Interactive conducted on behalf of American Business Media ...
The raunchier they get, the more nervous the industry gets, at least in Great Britain. So called "lad mags" are in danger of being segregated to the top, back row of the newsstands, behind t...
The current Macleans (July 1) contains the news that the magazine, which has been published on Mondays for as long as anyone can remember, is going to come out on Thursday from now on."After nea...
Was that a slight shiver that ran down the backs of the necks of controlled magazine publishers everywhere? Could be because they have seen a recent study commissioned by Emmis Communications, one of ...
Bonnie Fuller, the celebrity-magazine editor has renewed her contract as editorial director for American Media for three years. According to the New York Times, she signed the new deal on Friday and i...
Masthead magazine does the industry a huge favour each year by calculating total revenue for the top 50 magazines in the country. It is done by multiplying the advertising pages tracked by LNA and the...
The so-called "World Series of Poker", is running an insert in the July issue of Maxim magazine, (on Canadian newsstands now) and featuring Full Tilt Poker star player and erstwhile sex symb...
Spacing magazine, which this year won a gold medal in the Editorial Package category* in the National Magazine Awards, runs something called spacingwire, a daily log of interesting articles on urban p...
For those who weren't able to show up, booze and schmooze, the National Magazine Awards Foundation has now posted a web show that includes a video record of the awards night at the Carlu in Toronto on...
Two smallish Canadian horse magazines -- HorseLife Magazine, the official publication of Equine Canada and The Racing Journal, a print and online publication which covers thoroughbred and quarter hors...
Very good news that Canadian Living and Homemaker's have been added to the responsibility of Vice-President and Group Publsiher Jacqueline Howe at Transcontinental, according to an article in masthead...
Canada Post has apparently heard what the magazine industry was saying and moderated its rate increase, which will come into effect in January. According to a letter sent to Canada Post president Moya...
Corporate Knights magazine named Shopper's Drug Mart as Top Corporate Citizen as part of the fifth annual ranking of Canada's Best 50 Corporate Citizens. The rankings, sponsored by The Ethical Funds C...
Fun piece in Language Log about the cat-and-mouse game that ensued as Chinese censors tried, and sometimes failed, to insert "avoidance characters" in articles by the New York Times' Nichola...
Sun Media Corporation announced layoffs of 170 people today -- apparently most of the people involved in library and research across the country were included. The press release spun it as a $7 millio...
We'd like to acknowledge that longtime magazine writer and activist June Callwood has been named the 2006 recipient of the Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada, presented by the...
In light of the recent abrupt closure of Weekly Scoop by Torstar and the impending launch of Hello! magazine by Rogers, it's worth paying attention to how such celebrity titles are doing south of the ...
No word about Canadian retailers doing so, but according to Ad Age, major retailers in the U.S. have pulled the premier issue of Shock magazine after the photographer who took the picture disputed the...
Not having heard about it, it was very interesting to read about an international magazine that talks about what it is to be Jewish today called Guilt and Pleasure. Cynthia Brouse posts an item on her...
Interesting piece in this week's New York magazine about the impending American edition of the Guardian from Great Britain. Many people in Canada regularly read the Guardian online or subscribe to the...
Hey, I can live with the feeling of being an unworthy, obsequious reptile but please don't lie to me. I'm not a baby. I won't come crying because my magazine is not on the plan.So says Reptile, in Rep...
The Walrus magazine is now using an unusual freelance contract that is interesting in two respects: its view of what's fair in terms of kill fees and payment terms; and in giving an insight into the h...
Meredith Corporation announced Monday that it has launched a Chinese edition of Better Homes and Gardens, in partnership with SEEC Media Group Limited, one of China's biggest print media companies. T...
According to a Leger Marketing poll published in the current issue of Toronto Life, 60% of Ontarions support same-sex marriage, including 49% who support it outright and 11% who give tacit support by ...
Highlights , a 60-year-old U.S. kids magazine which has some subscribers in Canada, has reached the milestone of publishing one billion copies. According to editor Christine French Clark, the August ...
The bloom may be off Bonnie Fuller's rose, as there is some question whether the sweet deal she negotiated three years ago to be editorial director at American Media Inc. will be renewed, at least on...
The relative strength of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar and the peso had a significant effect on the second quarter results of Transcontinental Inc. It reported an 11 per cent drop in pr...
Pink Triangle Press of Toronto, the not-for-profit publishers of Xtra biweeklies in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa, is purchasing The Guide, a Boston-based international travel and sexual politics mont...
People who are adamant about the separation of church and state, advertising and editorial, in print, are less resolute about online and the more they talk about it, the more "nuanced" their...
Ad spending in the United States -- a pretty good bellwether of what's happening in Canada -- is expected to rise 4.9 percent to $150.3 billion for full-year 2006, a downward revision from original f...
Canada's richest man, one of its greatest philanthropists Ken Thomson (Lord Thomson of Fleet) has died at the age of 82. Thomson's relationship to the magazine world was at several removes, since he t...
Canadian Heritage will be ending Support for Arts & Literary Magazines (SALM) and making major changes to the Support for Editorial Content (SEC).A review of the Canada Magazine Fund has been unde...
Weekly Scoop, Torstar's energetic run at finding a place for itself in the crowded celebrity publication field, is closing. Staff were told today. According to a terse press release on the Torstar web...
The other shoe dropped with today's e-bulletin from Magazines Canada, officially announcing the Magazine Industry's BIG conference, to be held June 13-15, 2007 presented by Magazines Canada and the C...
Though it doesn't benefit Canadian magazines, it is worth noting that there is a concerted, government-sponsored advertising campaign going into U.S. publications, aimed at luring gay and lesbian coup...
For those who were not very happy with the single-sponsor issue of the New Yorker a couple of years ago, there will be continued unhappiness with news that the June 16 issue of Felix Dennis's newsweek...
Time Canada names its Canada's Heroes in this week's issue, on newsstands today. You can read the list of heroes here. This is the third year for this particular editorial promotion by Time, throwing ...
Magazines Week, culminated splendidly on Friday night, as it does every year now, with the always splashy and enjoyable National Magazine Awards. (The list of all the winners can best be seen here.) T...
Supportive stories must be taken where they are found; one supporting the position of the Canadian magazine industry concerning the predatory practices of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the N...
There's no trademark on the word "magazine", of course, and a lot of people trade on the inherent trust and entertainment values of magazines. Think of some "custom publications" a...
In honour of the start of the World Cup, here's a contrarian view from Martin O'Malley, a regular columnist over at cbc.ca. O'Malley, some of you may know, is a writer with a lovely light touch who on...
The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, known popularly as Access Copyright was created in 1988 by Canadian writers and publishers to license public access to copyright works for use with...
Word that People magazine's issue this week has its price jacked up because it has "exclusive" pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby Shiloh. Can't think of an instance when, for on...
Toro magazine has made some significant waves with this week's publication of a story about an ex-Mountie's shooting death in Haiti. The story accused Jordanian peacekeepers of failing to assist Mark ...
The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors has announced the winners of the 2006 Editors’ Choice Awards. The awards ceremony took place at a gala dinner at the Old Mill Inn in Toronto on Thursday night....
The top awards in the Canadian business press were made last night. The full list of gold, silver and runner-up winners by category is available here. The following were first place (gold) winners:Bes...
Profit magazine has published its annual ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies, the Profit 100. For the first time in its 18-year-history, the top spot on the PROFIT 100 goes to a company from...
President Brian Segal's grip on the future of all kinds of magazines at Rogers Publishing will tighten with the departure of Harvey Botting as head of trade publishing at the end of this month, accord...
To the delight of font-dweebs and typography mavens everywhere, it is apparent that the "interrobang" glyph is being seen more often now in font libraries and thereby may find its way into m...
It was not exactly a thunderclap, but some people will be shocked now that it has been made official. In an e-mail to members on the very eve of Magazines University 2006, the Circulation Management A...
Poor Reptile, the anonymous ad rep who posts occasionally over at Rep Life is feeling unloved, unappreciated and un-responded to. Which is a shame, because his posts often say what other reps only thi...
If you are among those who can't get enough of the Conrad Black saga, you'll want to read the Telegraph story from London, detailing the ways in which his Lordship is apparently rebounding from his tr...
The nominees for the Western Magazine Awards, have been announced. There are 27 categories and the winners will be named on the evening of July 7 in Vancouver. Among the nominees (the complete list ca...
A new tool for media buyers has been developed, and is being launched today in New York, that will assess magazines' audited circulation data and come up with a score based on the advertisers needs an...
Of particular interest to scholarly and literary magazine people is word that Toronto plays host June 15 to 17 to hundreds of international indexers at the Triennial International Indexing Meeting and...
It's fascinating to see the negative spin that the 3 June Globe and Mail article (and in particular its headline "You can move, but can't hide, from new Rogers magazine") put on the Chocolat...
In an e-mail to Toronto Star entertainment reporter Judy Stoffman (part of a longer column and interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick) , bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell (a native of Elmira...
It's hard for a casual observer to know the truth, but here's an entertaining column in the Rocky Mountain News that's about journalists mangling, misinterpreting and otherwise messing up when it come...
Dianne Rinehart sent a message in response to the post below, so I thought I'd give her the first word. Here's what she said (objecting to the characterization of her tenure at Homemaker's as "s...
Real Women London, a monthly, full-colour magazine to launch this week will feature plus-size models, modern fashions found in London, local restaurant reviews and many other features and columns, all...
A delightful memoir by Adam Vaughan is published in the current issue of eye magazine, about the fight his parents helped to lead against the Spadina Expressway in Toronto. There will be a celebratio...
Rogers Publishing Ltd. has unveiled plans for its new national shopping magazine for the home. It's called Chocolat and will be produced in both French and English with first editions available in Sep...
Media in Canada today reports that a new, luxury, controlled circulation magazine called Avant will start distribution this fall. It will be aimed at high personal net worth (greater than $100k in an...
Google's venture to auction off print ads in magazines, which launched in February, has been one of the biggest disappointments in the last six months, says Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's senior vice pr...
Watch your inbox for a subscription pitch from students of your acquaintance, switching from traditional fundraisers like selling chocolate bars door-to-door. A story in the Montreal Gazette says that...
Sometimes the light of reason shines from rather unexpected places, such as the front-of-the-book item in Canadian Business (May 22-June 4 issue), in which Andrew Nikiforuk neatly dissects the Gwyn Mo...