Content from some of the best known magazines and websites from the Rogers Publishing stable will be showing up within the next few weeks on Canoe, the online portal operated by Quebecor Media. The tw...
British Columbia magazine is publishing a special issue in early May 2007, devoted entirely to Vancouver's Stanley Park, which was devastated in a recent series of storms. The magazine, will sell for ...
The deadline is less than a month away for entries in the 2006 Kenneth R. Wilson Awards, recognizing excellence in trade, professional and farm publications. If you're in one of these categories, you ...
Tim Blanks, who used to be a contributing editor for St. Joseph Media's Fashion magazine, has now been hired at rival Flare (Rogers) as an editor-at-large, and his first column will appear in the Marc...
Congratulations to Masthead magazine (sub req'd) for its new, improved salary survey data in the just-published Jan-Feb issue. Among the many improvements is the use of median figures, rather than mis...
It's so brazen, so upfront that I'm not sure what to make of Creative Review, a magazine serving the design side of the British advertising industry, selling the guest editorship of its 10th annivers...
On Saturday, the Globe and Mail carried an interesting and provocative article by Robert Everett Green about the ascendancy of the song over the traditional "album" approach in pop music.It ...
It has always seemed odd that a Canadian company tracks ad spending for U.S. trade magazines, but can't get Canadian trade publishers to buy its services. According to a story in Mastheadonline (sub r...
A Toronto-based communications and contract publishing company called execuGo Media has launched a new bimonthly magazine called Muslim Girl, aimed mostly at the U.S. market. Its premier edition has a...
Chili Pepper (Pantone 19-1557), a deep, spicy red, is this year's colour of the year, according to the colour correction mavens. As reported in Design Edge Canada: ...
Several indie magazine publishers in Toronto submitted to be interviewed for an excellent cover story in eye weekly that delivers some home truths, among them being how hard it is to make a living doi...
Official word has confirmed the unofficial word that a Stockholm-based publishing company has pipped the other contenders at the post to buy the 18 special interest titles being sold by Time Warner's ...
Trade publishing is often a way for ambitious individuals to get into the business, serving a specialized audience in a highly focussed way. There are few better examples of this than Kitchener-based ...
A Sackville, N.B.-based division of Transcontinental Media is launching a regional business publication called eNBusiness that will be made will be available in both print and digital editions. The di...
Geist magazine columnist Stephen Henighan says the Giller Prize is rigged. He isn't elliptical about it; in his Kingmaker's column he calls the prize "the most conspicuous example of corporate su...
The Regina Leader Post's political columnist, Murray Mandryk, in a January 24 column, essentially accepts that much of what Maclean's magazine's Jonathan Gatehouse reported about the beleagured North ...
The number of ROP advertising pages reported by Leading National Advertisers (which tracks about 95 Canadian titles) in 2006 was essentially flat, down 0.1%. Actual revenue, due to rate increases, was...
Time Inc. may not get the US$250 million it was hoping for from the sale of 18 special interest publications. Betting is that the whole package will sell for about US$200 million, $100 million of wh...
Wonderful, colourful, macabre cover on Broken Pencil magazine's current issue -- The Games Issue -- with a stylized presentation of Twister, mixed with homage to Clue (with a crescent wrench, on the T...
The closest most of us get to the Canadian seed industry is, this time of year, poring over a catalogue, dreaming of spring. But for the seed trade itself, it's more than mooning over the latest veget...
Enrollment is now being accepted for So You Want to Start a Magazine? at Ryerson University's Chang School for Continuing Education. The course is held February 10 and 11 (Friday and Saturday). You ca...
By the time Time Inc. is through with restructuring, in order to invest the money in its magazine-related websites, the toll is estimated to be about 800+ people from its workforce, according to a st...
Mayor Pat Fiacco of Regina predicted in advance that a just-published follow-up article by Maclean's magazine on the troubled North Central neighbourhood (characterizing it as the country's worst neig...
So much for the Canadian edition. So much for a particularly Canadian spin on celebrity coverage. Gone yesterday were Hello! Canada's publisher, Shelley Middlebrook, editor Christopher Loudon and art...
Consumer Reports , a highly trusted and reliable magazine which has a large Canadian circulation and following, has taken a real hit to its credibility. It has had to retract a story published a coupl...
A lot of magazines in this country rely on volunteers to keep them running; either formally, as in upaid internships; or informally. Statistics Canada's last survey (2003-04) said that there were 5,2...
The current offer from the Rogers Magazine Service continue to demonstrate that Canadian titles are the big discounters when it comes to trolling for subs.The leader is Maclean's, which offers a $39.9...
It's not that often that Canadian magazines work as closely together as Alternatives magazine (an environmental journal) and The New Quarterly (a literary journal) have. Both are published on the camp...
Last week, Maclean's magazine published an article saying that Regina was home to "Canada's worst neighbourhood", a crime and problem-ridden slum. Predictably, there is a backlash, said an a...
Charlene Rooke, the editor of enRoute magazine and, before that, of Avenue magazine in Calgary, is to succeed Jim Sutherland as editor-in-chief of Western Living magazine, as reported in an item on ma...
Magazines Canada is accepting nominations until March 1 for its Volunteer of the Year award.It recognizes one individual's outstanding volunteer contribution to the Canadian consumer magazine indust...
"Ubiquity is the new exclusivity."This paradoxical remark is part of a New York Times story about how advertisers, those people we love who give us money for the privilege of holding our sto...
Four of the big five U.S. magazine companies experienced over all declines in ad pages during 2006, according to a story in MediaDaily News (based on Publishers Information Bureau data):Time Inc. (4.8...
"It works a lot better than I thought it would," says Darryl Brown, the art director of Geez magazine. You see Brown, who has a full-time day job at Staccato Design in Portland, Oregon, does...
No big surprise, but according to early data from the Publishers Information Bureau (PIB), reported by Folio: magazine, the New York Times Magazine sold the most ad pages of any PIB-tracked magazine i...
Consumer magazine publishers in the U.S., particularly the big ones, and small and medium-sized publishers, particularly trade publishers, are a wee bit testy with each other this week in their submis...
Design editors at various Canadian magazines recently received a plaintive e-mail from the President of the National Magazine Awards Foundation because of a record low number of entries in the Homes a...
Even if you wouldn't know a "stemless glyph" if you found it in your soup, you may be interested in what is considered a very big deal in the typography world with the release of Gotham Roun...
(From Spacing -- illustration by Marlena Zuber)The Montreal-based website UrbanPhoto, whose mission is "the exploration of cities through words and photography", has nice things to say about...
Magazines that are prospering now offer an environment that cannot be replicated online. You cannot open your browser and have an experience akin to the September issue of Vogue, with its hundreds of ...
Raffi, the well-known children's songwriter and performer (and composer of "Bananaphone"), has written a letter to Ted Rogers, the Chairman of Rogers Communications, and head of the wireless...
One of the beneficiaries of the Transcon's discontinuation of the print edition of TV Guide was TV Week, the magazine published by Canada Wide Media of Vancouver. According to a story in mastheadonlin...
There has been some considerable talk about the earlier item pointing readers to the essay purported to be by a former journalism student, saying she had cheated her way through assignments, making ma...
A classic case of getting a lemon and making lemonade: Maisonneuve magazine's current issue is polybagged because of the overheated sensibilities of Chapters magazine buyers concerning some nudity.In ...
Quebecor World is immediately closing one of its Quebec magazine printing plants, resulting in the loss of 155 jobs; work from the L'Eclaireur facility in Beauceville, Quebec will be consolidated into...
Playback, the film and television production trade magazine, is making significant changes, splitting out its breaking news coverage into a daily online newsletter linked to a redesigned website and f...
We've all had the experience of looking at a five- or ten-year old magazine and being surprised at how old-fashioned it looks. For instance, I was looking at the Golden Anniversary issue of Esquire pu...
Next Wednesday, January 10 is the final deadline for submissions to the National Magazine Awards. You can find out more at the National Magazine Awards Foundation website.
For those who may not have seen it, a friend points out the fascinating article in the current issue of Maisonneuve, written by a former Ryerson University journalism student , confessing how she f...
Common Ground, a Vancouver-based health and wellness magazine carries an article by a woman who it says was fired as a freelance monthly columnist for the Western Producer. for attending a rally in su...
Sobe News--the Miami-based publisher of 11 regional luxury magazines including Ocean Drive and Atlanta --has created a parallel strategic marketing group to serve advertisers that aren't interested in...
Suddenly, in San Francisco, from causes related to operating a newsstand system, The Independent Press Association (IPA) in the U.S. has died.A notification to its members and directors December 27 at...
Starting every fall and running through to the first issue of each calendar year is the season of congratulatory lists, whereby (primarily business) magazines trumpet the 100 this, the 50 that or the ...
Red Herring, a well-known U.S.-based technology magazine, is extending its reach into Canada by launching a huge conference in Montreal this spring. It's part of an effort to 'globalize' content and r...
Moms turn to magazines to help them relax more often then any other platform, according to a study by The Parenting Group, a U.S. research firm. Its 24/7 MomConnection study says that in a typical wee...
In earlier posts, I've suggested that fair payment for freelancers was one of the great, unsolved and unaddressed problems of the Canadian magazine industry. At the management level it is a topic eit...