August 2007

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17:34
Happy New Year. Like me, most of you know, or feel, that the year actually starts in September, after Labour Day, a situation that is the residue of all those years in school. But you know the magazine business seems to work the same way. After September 4, you'll still get voice mail on your calls to people, but you'll at least know they're in their offices screening you, rather than on a dock
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15:02
Lists are so popular and lucrative for magazines, we suppose it had to happen. You know, of course, of the ROB 1000, the "Rich List" at Canadian Business and the top 20 this, 50 that which can be found in many consumer magazines. Now the business magazine Inc. has upped the ante, so to speak, by coming out with the Inc. 5000, according to MediaNews Daily. The secret is that the web has almost
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21:51
There is concern among publishers about the impact of the merger of two of the big three fulfillment companies in the U.S., according to Folio: magazine. Kable Media Services Inc. bought Palm Coast Data for $93 million and the two companies are consolidating. About 75 employees were laid off, most of them at Kable, leading Folio: to notePalm Coast management will run the merged company, which
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21:05
The green bandwagon is beginning to groan a little as commercial interests clamber aboard. Metroland Media Group in cooperation with a consortium of public relations, advertising and polling companies intends to carpet-bomb Ontario with a new quarterly magazine-style newspaper advertising supplement called Our Green Home.It will be delivered to 1.86 million Ontario homes the week of September 24.
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23:28
If you want something done, you've gotta do it yourself, sometimes. So it is with Cynthia Brouse, the reigning doyenne of fact-checking in Canada, who has now published a dandy little textbook on the subject called After the Fact: A Guide to Fact Checking for Magazines and Other Media. The book is available online through this link. Price is $16.95 for a paperback, $13.95 for a download of the
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17:19
Rona Maynard, who was editor of Chatelaine for 10 years (until 2004), has launched a spiffy new website that looks to be intended not only to promote a forthcoming book but to become a site of choice for women interested in their own stories.The book, My Mother's Daughter, which is to be published September 8 by McClelland and Stewart, is a memoir of growing up as the daughter of the late
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13:57
Today, magazines exist in a universe of expanded entertainment choices for men. Even in the magazine universe alone, the competition is intense — there are a lot of magazines out there! And now we’re competing with free and pirated material online. It’s a transitional period, and we’re certainly one company with the resources and product to ride it out.In response to a long list of questions from
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13:04
Algorithms and search engines can roam far and wide with a speed that leaves ordinary people in their dust, but the one thing that technology doesn't have is human judgement. And there is an interesting item by Scott Karp* on the blog Publish 2.0 on current thinking about the role of trusted human editors in the dissemination of reliable stories and information.( Why am I reporting this on the
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23:32 ,
Christina Reynolds, the editor of the business magazine Calgary Inc. is no longer with the company. No reason was given for her departure.The magazine has a claimed readership of 120,000 and total distribution of 32,000, including 4,000 distributed through the Globe and Mail. Most of the circulation (87%) is controlled, with about 2,500 paid subscribers.
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16:41
Despite its venerable history as a voice of American liberalism, times have not been good recently for Canadian-owned The New Republic. The Asper family must be asking itself what kind of a gimcrack, out-of-control mess they bought.Not only is TNR famous for having harboured plagiarists and fabulists like Stephen Glass and Ruth Shallit in the past, now it is is coping with the fallout from its "
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An opinion piece in the Toronto Star by Michael Geist says that Canadian Heritage should shift its priorities. More funding should go into new media and emerging creator groups, he says, presumably at the expense of established programs. Geist is a well-known critic and commentator on copyright, digital and online issues. He is Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the
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Consumer Reports has posted videos of crash tests for more than 200 makes of cars, minivans, truck and SUVs, according to a story in MediaDaily News. CR teamed up with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and posted the results at www.ConsumerReports.org/crashtest. The tests include both front and side-impact collisions and the videos are searchable by make and model. As other vehicles are
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14:54
Architectural Digest, the grandmummy of shelter, interior design and architecture magazines, is bringing its road show to Toronto September 24-30. Architecture Days had previously been held in only New York and San Francisco (and continues to be).The week of events are available only by advance ticket purchase, and include visits to various sites, including the CN Tower, behind the scenes in the
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A small group of students from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) has launched a bi-monthly online magazine called Lyte.Arts, for "people who live for, love and make art." It's feature-rich and handsome and worth a visit to see what young artists think about what's important.Half the magazine is devoted to interviews and features about established illustrators and fine artists; the
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21:05
Roy McGregor, a regular columnist for Cottage Life magazine and the Globe and Mail, is to be the 2007 Bell Lecture at the Faculty of Public Affairs on October 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kailash Mital Theatre, Southam Hall, Carleton University. It will be entitled "As Canadian as possible … under the circumstances". The lecture will riff off his latest book, Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its
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23:18
Xtra magazine is this Sunday hosting a new literary festival in Toronto focussing on gay and lesbian literature. It kicks off this Sunday, according to an item in Quillblog. Church Street between Alexander and Gloucester will be closed for the festival.Writing Outside the Margins features a day-long lineup of readings by various authors, including Nalo Hopkinson, Jim Bartley, and Q&Q contributor
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22:41
Albertans, and the rest of the country, will see the brand new business and lifestyle magazine aimed at the "millenials" (def: the children of baby boomers) when Venture Publishing of Edmonton launches unlimited.Content will be about work and life from the perspective of the 20 - 35 year old demographic, the kinds of young people who have flocked and are flocking to Alberta as the land of
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15:02
The Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) is sponsoring a couple of public service ads that ask magazine readers to recycle. "Be a Hero. Recycle Your Magazines," says one and "Turn Over a New Leaf. Recycle Your Magazines!" The ads were created by Jennifer Kraemer-Smith, art director for Time for Kids. Nina Link, president of the MPA, said the ads are a "friendly reminder that every one of us
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16:58 ,
The tricky and rather anemic kids' periodical sector is to lose one of its titles -- Disney Adventures is being discontinued, effective with its November issue, according to a story in MediaWeek. The digest-sized magazine for 6 to 14 year olds, had 1.2 million paid circulation. Most of its circulation was by subscription, but it was also a perennial on the checkout racks since its founding in
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14:22
A British municipal government has forced distributors of two free newspapers to pay for and service recycling bins for their products.The deal comes after [Westminster] council threatened earlier this year to ban the two London free newspapers, Associated's London Lite and News International rival thelondonpaper, if they did not contribute to the cost of clearing up discarded papers each night,
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23:39
With full disclosure (I teach both courses) here is a shameless plug for two Ryerson University magazine-related courses which are quickly coming up:The Business of Magazine Publishing -- a 14-week course (2½ hours every Monday night, starting September 10th) that is a mile wide and an inch deep, covering all the aspects of Canadian magazine publishing from editorial to production, contract
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21:38
[this story has been updated]“We’re not in the business of trying to build a galaxy of bloggers and churn out copy all day.” -- Monocle editor (and Wallpaper founder) Tyler Brûlé, quoted in the New York Observer.Brûlé, the Winnipeg-born wunderkind, says he thinks the big guys are getting it all wrong. While they're cutting back, trimming pages and replacing original journalism with user-generated
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11:48
Having had major success in generating interest in the last municipal election in Toronto, Spacing magazine is debuting its special election blog Spacing Votes to cover the forthcoming Ontario provincial election. The blog goes live again on August 30. The emphasis will be, as it should be, on such urban issues as public space, funding and transit, and it's got a formidable lineup of contributors
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17:08 ,
[This post has been updated.]Transcontinental Inc., Canada's largest printer, has fattened up its printing business with the $130 million acquisition of the PLM Group, Canada's fourth largest. With the purchase, Transcon also beefs up its sales force and its position in the direct marketing industry.With the purchase, it picks up 470 employees in four facilities with reported revenues of $126
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16:25 ,
The September issue of Vogue has always seemed as though it should come with its own set of wheels; this September's issue is its biggest ever, with 727 advertising pages, proclaiming itself "extra, extra large".The growth in pages, according to a story in the New York Times, seems to have been achieved by closely linking print advertising with ShopVogue.TV, a potent form of "added value" which
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Today in the email, another edition of MediaScout, the news digest prepared daily by Maisonneuve magazine in Montreal, containing another brilliant precis (by Daniel Casey) of the so-called news of the day. The topic is the Montebello Summit as covered (or not covered, or covered up) in what MediaScout calls the Big Seven (Globe & Mail, National Post, La Presse, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, CBC
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19:32
Geist magazine, which has until now had a fairly simple, comely homespun garment for its website, has invested in a spiffy and sophisticated new look and turbocharged functionality. It has been accomplished without losing the eclectic charm of its contents.After a year of brainstorming, debating, tweaking and tinkering, the all-new geist.com has leapt into the cyberworld. Hats off to Dave Egan
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16:14
It's a very sad day when you hear that one of Canada's great editors, writing teachers, freelance writers and authors, Bob Collins, has died. But it was a great privilege to have known him and been the object of his gentle and pleasant ways.[UPDATE: See funeral details at the end of this post*.]When I first met Bob he had one of the best magazine writing jobs in Canada, to my mind, as "at large"
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Azure, the magazine about art, architecture, design and interiors, tackles a touchy subject that should set the chattering classes abuzz: a cover story in its September issue by John Bentley Mays, asks pointedly about the Daniel Liebskind-designed Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition to the venerable Royal Ontario Museum.Easy to hate, impossible to simply like, does the Crystal show the future or
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05:44
Fashion magazine Flare is unveiling a redesign when its September issue arrives on newsstands across Canada on Monday. With the redesign, which has been planned for two years, there is a new logo, new fonts and coverline treatment.There are several new departments and the print magazine has a "web" feel to many of the inside pages, integrating it with its popular website flare.com, which was
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19:08
Doubtless a sunny summer Friday is not the time to print gloomy news about magazines, but perhaps there is light at the end of the Canadian tunnel in this story from the Independent in Britain. It points out that most categories of magazines took a significant hit with the publication this week of the Audit Bureau of Circulation figures. In Britain, some 90% of magazines sell on newsstands or
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16:54
Cosmopolitan TV is coming to Canada as Corus Entertainment cuts a deal with Hearst Corporation to mount a 24-hour television version of the world's top-selling magazine for young women starting in 2008. This according to a story in Media in Canada. The joint venture is not the first: there are already Cosmo TV shows in 20 other countries, including Spain, Mexico and Argentina. The Canadian
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11:00
[This item has been updated]It appears that Redwood Custom Communications of Toronto, the largest custom publisher in the country, has lost one of its biggest clients. All or perhaps part of the account to produce custom magazines for Kraft Foods (What's Cooking in Canada, Food & Family in the U.S.) has been scooped by the giant U.S. publisher Meredith Corporation (Better Homes & Gardens etc.).
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You may recall the kerfuffle a while ago when a number of Canadian universities decided to boycott the Maclean's university rankings as being unfair and misleading. The Maclean's rankings were modelled on similar U.S. News and World Report university rankings. Some U.S. colleges wanted to boycott those, too. But, according to a story in Folio:, it's uphill work. More than 60 universities signed
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19:40
A new Canadian history video game has been launched by Bitcasters, a Toronto company, in strategic partnership with Canada's National History Society (pubishers of The Beaver magazine and Kayak, the history magazine for kids) and the Historica Foundation.The History Canada Game, according to a story in the Georgia Straight, grew out of a conversation 10 years ago between Nathon Gunn, CEO of
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18:01
The counter-attack against Maclean's and its recent "Lawyers are rats" cover proceeds apace. Erstwhile Liberal political operative and National Post blogger and columnist Warren Kinsella wades in with a column called "The rats fight back".As pretty much every lawyer will recall, at the end of July, Maclean's magazine made a bad decision to promote a bad book by a certain Philip Slayton about a
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Magazines Canada has asked the federal government to make Canada Post Corporation meeting its cultural responsibilities before authorizing substantial changes to its mandate and role or in its pricing structure. In its annual pre-budget submission to the Standing Committee on Finance, the national magazine association said that the publications assistance program (PAP -- postal subsidy) is
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