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 magazin...
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 c...
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 Da...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 interesti...
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 dis...
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, ...
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...
Shanda Deziel has been wooed back to Maclean's to be managing editor of its website Macleans.ca. Deziel started at Maclean's as an intern and was a senior editor before leaving to work for America Onl...
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 High...
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 Ne...
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 fea...
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 Theat...
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 Alex...
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 Edmont...
Here's some comment from an American who, having happened across a copy of Chocolat,the magazine launched by Rogers Media last year, notes its remarkable similarity to Condé Nast's Domino.
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 ...
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 ...
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 council threatened earlier this year to ban...
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 co...
“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 Winnip...
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 provinc...
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 be...
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 "ext...
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 th...
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 accomp...
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 th...
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, ask...
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, ne...
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 poi...
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 200...
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 magazin...
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 modelle...
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 ...
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 wad...
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...