April 2008

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16:40
[This post is updated] Perhaps someone smarter than me can explain the appearance in this morning's paper of an appointment notice whereby Isabelle Marcoux, vice-chair and vice-president of Corporate Development of Transcontinental Inc. has joined the board of Rogers Communications Inc. By this strokea very senior executive of Canada's largest consumer magazine publisher, Transcontinental Media,
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14:30
Funding for the Ontario Arts Council this year is to be increased by $5 million, bringing it to $55 million for 2008/09. The announcement was made by Ontario Culture Minister Aileen Carroll at a reception for Kingston area artists. The 2007 Ontario budget had previously included an additional $5 million increase in 2009/10, which means the OAC budget in that year will now be $60 million.It is not
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02:17
Charles Oberdorf, a friend and colleague for many years, has been named the recipient of this year's Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement at the National Magazine Awards. I was pleased to be one of the supporters of his nomination. The award is well-deserved not only for his teaching and mentorship (he is coordinator of the Magazine Publishing program at the Chang School for Continuing
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21:46
Prefix Photo magazine and its associated gallery is marking the passing of traditional photography with a feature called The Last Photograph by Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó. Inspired by the corporate decision to stop the manufacture of photographic paper, she mourns the death of traditional photography in her most recent project. It's an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Matheson, in its North
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16:55
There is an apparently bottomless appetite (sorry) for recipes online, as evidenced by Transcon's decision to launch an English Canada equivalent of its French-language recipes website, drawn from various Transcon titles. According to a story in Media in Canada, RecipeFeast.com, will be a complement to, not a copy of Recettes.qc.ca, which attracts more than a million web surfers every month.
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16:19
Giorgina Bigioni, who has for 20 years led the fashion and lifestyle division for St. Joseph Media and, before that, for Key Publishing Company, has been let go and her position as vice-president of the lifestyle group eliminated. It is part of a major shakeup in the management at SJM that was announced in a press release. It sees the division taken over by Lilia Lozinski who has been named
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16:08
Though it is still hard to understand the "gold standard" rhetoric being employed to describe the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) in its competitive battle with BPA over auditing services, ABC has some powerful people on its side; in this case, Rogers Publishing, the largest trade magazine publisher in the country and its second-largest consumer mag publisher.According to a story in Media in
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13:32
MoneySense magazine, in a bid to take the arbitrariness out of the ranking business, just sticks to the facts and, using them, has come up with a list of the best places to live in Canada. Now, nobody who comes low in such a rankings likes them much, but city life is so complex that it is difficult to see how avoiding subjectivity altogether results in a well-rounded result. Still, we give points
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20:13
There will be a free panel discussion in Toronto on Wednesday, April 30 at 7 p.m. about publishing in the arts. It's sponsored by Gallery 1313 and ArtSPEAK and will feature editors and publishers from four of Canada's better-known Toronto-based art magazines. They'll be talking about how to get your work published, the biggest challenges in art publishing today and the state of art writing/
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Canadian publishers will doubtless be looking hard at Hearst Publishing's decision to make an exclusive advertising deal with Wal-Mart to publish a new magazine supplement that will be carried in six of Hearst's consumer titles. The supplement is called 30 Days of Home and the retailer will use it to promote its new line of home furnishings called Canopy.According to a story in Brandweek, in
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17:42
In an announcement that may have implications for the magazine industry in this country, the federal government has launched a limited review of Canada Post. The Minister responsible for Canada Post, Lawrence Cannon, announced the appointment of a three-member independent advisory panel, headed by Dr. Robert Campbell, President of Mount Allison University. The other panelists are Mrs. Nicole
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17:40
Running a proper magazine store, one that reflects the owners' sensibilities and carries offbeat, quirky and hard-to-find titles is not an easy job and sometimes the job just gets too much. Hence, one of Vancouver's most engaging magazine stores, Magpie Magazine Gallery, is closing this Saturday after 15 years in business. The reasons given are sobering.According to a heartfelt tribute by Chad
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I know, I know, in a world of text messaging and spell checkers it seems retro and so last week to worry about typography and punctuation. But while magazines still set type and read left to right, top to bottom and front to back, these things matter. Which is why I enjoyed this article about Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes, from the British blog Receding Hairline. It details the mistakes
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19:20
The Ontario Arts Council has revised its guidelines for its Grants to Periodicals Program. There are a number of significant changes, including removing the ceiling on grant amounts, allowing controlled circulation and online magazines to apply, instituting an easier-to-use application process and providing for three-year funding.[Disclosure: my company, Impresa Communications Limited, did the
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21:23
Derek Finkle's name should probably now be included with other muckraking journalists and writers who have championed unpopular causes and were vindicated by events.Finkle, the former editor of the late Toro magazine, wrote No Claim to Mercy in 1998, a book about the 1990 Elizabeth Bain murder case that said her boyfriend Robert Baltovich had been railroaded into spending almost 9 years in
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20:03
A few reminders:Thursday night 24th in Toronto is the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors mixer with a panel on blogging. I will be up there with Douglas Bell of Toronto Life's Spectator blog and Heather Mallick of CBC.ca and the Guardian's Comment is Free. It's upstairs at the Bar Italia starting at 6 p.m.[UPDATE and CORRECTION] Thursday night24th, 7 - 1 and Friday night 25th 3 - 10 pm is the
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19:42
Just keeping up with all the developments in magazine design is exhausting, but if you feel as I do the need to know what's happening and what's coming, we are fortunate that Smashing Magazine has posted two excellent lists: one of some selected pdf magazines (I particularly like Grafika and Candy -- see above); another of 40 online design/tech magazines that are worth the trouble. Very nice.
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In an article published today on Mastheadonline about his company's wish to have its trade titles served by Magazines Canada, Rogers Media CEO was blunt about his views of the trade association Canadian Business Press (CBP).“I don’t think the CBP has anything effective to offer its members,” Segal said. “We don’t know what it does. What programs does it have? What events does it have? Besides the
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16:45
Yet another newspaper-carried glossy men's magazine has dropped out of the Globe and Mail today. As reported here earlier, Sharp is the brainchild of former partners in Driven -- with which they will be going head-to-head -- and seems remarkably similar in content and design: fast cars draped with gorgeous women; chunky and expensive watches and other toys; yet another spread on men's suits (has
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16:31
Craig Silverman, author of Regret the Error, proprietor of self-same-named website and freelance Globe and Mail columnist, has posted some thoughts on his own website suggesting how freelancers and editors might divert themselves from lamenting their circumstances and doing something about fixing them.Being a freelance writer today is remarkably different than it was when I sold my first article
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11:00
It's not just in Toronto or Canada that there's occasional consternation about unpaid internships. In Britain, the National Union of Journalists has released a survey of 644 journalism graduates who qualified in the past five years. And it claims that exploitation is rife among magazines, newspapers, broadcasters and websites.According to a story in UK Press Gazette, the union said employers
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11:00
This week's Time magazine cover (US), for only the second time in its history, has replaced its trademarked red border with another colour, in this case green. It's to highlight the cover story on global warming and climate change, illustrated by a takeoff on that perennial cliche, the flag raising at Iwo Jima. How to win the war on global warming, its main coverline trumpets.In his letter to
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21:57
“They go out and test: Do you like this person? Do you like this blurb? Do you like this blurb better than this blurb? It’s unbelievable. I’d do a cover that would knock your eyeballs out. Whether you liked it or hated it, you knew there was a magazine that was pumping blood.” He went on, “Now everyone’s sweating bullets. They all sit there with their cover, their this and their that, their
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19:12
Advertisers want to borrow—or steal—the credibility and authority we have with our readers. And we want to give it to them without threatening the credibility and authority. [At National Geographic] we’re always asking ‘How far can we go with this?’ It’s a constant internal struggle.-- John Griffin, National Geographic group president and Magazine Publishers of America chairman, speaking at New
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14:40
The Department of Canadian Heritage, as part of its consultation with the magazine industry about the future of funding (PAP and CMF), requested feedback from a cross-section of the industry. We are grateful to Rosalynn Tyo, managing editor of The New Quarterly in Waterloo, for sharing her excellent and thought-provoking submission. Here are a couple of excerpts:Small magazines are not small
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14:20
A follow-up on an earlier post about the apparently sweeping interpretation that Transcontinental Media had put on its rights to provide promotional access to articles. As readers may recall, writer Kim Pittaway had been told that Transcon had given permission for the full text of an article she had written for More magazine to be reprinted, without payment or consultation, in a publication of
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02:47
It's hard to see what substantive difference there will be for advertisers and agencies with the decision of the Star Media Group, Transcontinental Media and Sun Media pulling their daily newspapers out of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).Their 30 titles' circulation will, after all, be measured now by the Canadian Circulation Audit Board (CCAB), a division of BPA Worldwide, a company that
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18:12
The future of magazines is not new media, it is magazines, says consultant Rebecca McPheters in an article published by Media Industry Newsletter (MIN). The problem is that agencies and otherwise rational commentators remain oblivious to the facts and are being allowed to marginalize the industry.It is important not to lose sight of the fact that the true value of any medium lies in its ability
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17:31
The spunky literary quarterly The New Quarterly of Waterloo, Ontario ventures out of province to launch its latest issue. It will be at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival on May 1 to promote its themed Montreal issue which contains many writers from in and around that city.Blue Metropolis , celebrating its 10th year, is bringing together over 230 writers and 14,000 participants
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Transcontinental Media's TheHockeyNews.com , which enjoys more than 380,000 unique visitors every month, has announced that it has launched a free mobile platform; according to a story in Media in Canada, selected THN content will now be available on portable devices such as cellphones and Blackberries by typing in mobile.THN.com. Caroline Andrews, publisher, sports & entertainment for
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Slimming down celebrities (particularly scantily clad ones) with Photoshop won't be ending anytime soon in the States. The American Society of Magazine Editors will talk about it but that's about all:“ASME is not considering a ban of any kind,” Glamour editor and ASME president Cindi Leive tells Folio: “Given the ubiquity of retouching technology these days—think of brides and their wedding
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Honouring excellence in circulation is the goal of the ACE awards (Awards for Circulation Excellence), given out each year at MagNet: Canada's Magazine Conference. Nominations for the awards, including the prestigious Marketer of the Year and the CMC Caren King Scholarship, are due by May 12, 2008. Details at the Circulation Management Association of Canada (CMC) website.
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A reminder that the deadline for submissions in the consultation process by the Department of Heritage on the redesign of the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) and the Canadian Magazine Fund (CMF) is fast approaching.Written comments will be accepted up to Friday April 25th, either by email at periodicals@canadianheritage.gc.ca, by fax at 819-994-3154, or by mail to: Periodical Publishing
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22:33
Cottage Life magazine has launched a social networking site that will allow its readers to create their own online community centred on whichever lake their cottages are on. According to a story in Mastheadonline, the new collaborative platform called My Lake, can be reached through CottageLife.com and allows users to upload cottage information and pictures, and start conversations with other
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22:18
A couple of months ago, the venerable American magazine The Atlantic took down its pay wall. Now it is (gasp) about the embark on its first advertising campaign as well as revamping its print version and its burgeoning online site Atlantic.com. According to a story in Folio:, a European ad agency has been hired to manage the rebranding of the 15o-year-old title which will attempt to make The
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17:30
Nathan Whitlock, the review editor of Quill and Quire magazine, will be presenting a comic mock lecture as part of This is Not a Reading Series. Called "Seven Steps to a Seven Day Novel", the lecture celebrates the release of Whitlocks' first novel A Week of This: A Novel in Seven Days (ECW Press). Songs inspired by the darkly comic tale about the lives of an extended family will be sung by Alex
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15:28
Magazines Canada has changed the name of its Small Magazines Committee to be the Cultural Magazines Committee; it will represent the same titles and kinds of titles, says the organization, but the renaming is intended to better reflect the diversity and range of sizes represented. According to a posting on the Shoestring blog,Cultural magazines within the Magazines Canada membership include art,
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The board of Magazines Canada is recommending to its members that trade magazines be welcomed as members. The proposed bylaw change will be considered at the Magazines Canada annual general meeting in June and would remove the restriction on trades from its bylaws which have, until now, allowed membership only for consumer magazines.If approved, as seems reasonably likely, this bylaw change could
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According to a story in the Winnipeg Sun, the local of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action at the Transcontinental-LGM Graphics plant in Winnipeg. This is a plant which prints several mid-sized magazines, including The Walrus. CEP Local 900G, which represents about 300 workers in print and design media, said members
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16:08
Formula Media Group (a division of Metroland Media Group/Torstar Corp.) has launched a new magazine called Suburban Life. The polybagged outsert will be distributed six times per year to sine 210,000 households in the Golden Horseshoe ranging from Niagara to Uxbridge and Thornhill to Barrie, according to a story in Media in Canada. "We are confident that advertisers will want to reach these
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15:34
Quebecor World may have taken a step or two back from the brink of bankruptcy with the signing of a multi-year agreement with Wenner Media to print Rolling Stone, US Weekly and the Men's Journal, according to a story in the U.K. magazine PrintWeek. Last week the company signed a $285m (£143.8m) textbook printing agreement with McGraw-Hill.The deals are a sign of hope for Quebecor World which had
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18:33
Blogger Matthew Gruman publishes some cogent observations about magazine web building in general...Magazines need websites. Tools like Dreamweaver make it really easy to make websites if you know print design. People with magazines tend to know print design, so they make their own sites. The problem is that web design and print design aren’t the same thing and most people don’t know that. When
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15:37
Two Roger Publishing trade magazines, Canadian Grocer and Pharmacy Post, are to run a special advertising section in May that promotes magazines. The intention is get the benefits of magazines as a product in front of the people who run the newsstands and racks in grocery and drug stores.Content will highlight the benefits of magazine merchandising, the ways magazines can create higher margins
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03:24
Maclean's magazine has expressed itself relieved that a case filed against it at the Ontario Human Rights Commission will not be proceeding; but it objects strenuously to the language used in issuing the ruling.The complaints concerned an article in its October 2006 issue titled "The Future Belongs to Islam", which was an excerpt from columnist Mark Steyn's book "America Alone: The End of the
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18:20
On April 24, the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors are hosting one of its periodical mixers and a panel on blogging with Douglas Bell, of Toronto Life's Spectator blogD.B. Scott, of the Canadian Magazines blogHeather Mallick, blogger for CBC It's on the second floor of Bar Italia, 582 College St. , Toronto, at 6 p.m. CSME members $15; non-members $30.
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18:04
The current (May) issue of Bon Appetit magazine has turned over its business side masthead as an advertising promotion, according to an article in Advertising Age.We wouldn't have thought there was much real estate left in magazines still untouched by advertisers, not after Mini USA appropriated the staples in Rolling Stone. But Starbucks has found some. The masthead is presented in the form of a
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16:39
The reason the digital world is growing is simply that it's better for people, says Digitas chairman/CEO David Kenny said . Speaking at the conference of the Canadian Media Directors Council (quoted in Media in Canada), he said:"You already know the most important part of this in order to be great digital executives - whether that's media planners or buyers or clients - is understanding human
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15:55
Schizophrenia Digest magazine, published out of Fort Erie by Magpie Publishing, has launched a new website to encourage discussion of the disease. It's called LetsTalkAboutIt.ca and editor and publisher Bill McPhee says it is "a place to share your story and read about the stories of others who have suffered, or seen their loved ones suffer, from schizophrenia. The site also facilitates a
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02:02
Wah Keung Chan, the founder, president and editor-in-chief of the Montreal-based magazine La Scena Musicale will be honoured on April 14 by Vanier College during its 10th annual Big Band Benefit for his role in promoting classical music and jazz throughout Canada. Wah Keung is a Vanier graduate and founded LSM as a free national music magazine, in 1996.The evening's festivities will be hosted by
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21:18
A group of Canadian magazines, newspapers and outdoor media companies have donated ad space worth about $800,000 to the cause of literacy. This is the 8th year for the Gutenberg Media Grab. Donated ad space is sold at 65% off rate card value and all proceeds go to ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation.The money goes to support initiatives that raise public awareness of the issue of low literacy among
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17:20
"I would go to the wall for the semi-colon."-- Barbara Zatyko, Magazines Canada General Manager & Publisher.Good to know.[This was provoked by an article in The Guardian about whether the semi-colon was "a parasite, a timid, fainthearted, insipid thing" or "a most upmarket punctuation mark".]
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16:01
An interesting wrinkle in the large and sprawling quilt of issues about freelance rights is a situation outlined in a posting on the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers list. Writer Kim Pittaway (former editor of Chatelaine) did an article for More magazine about a program called the Judy Project for CEO-track women at the Rotman School at the University of Toronto. Rotman asked
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14:17
HEADlines, the Sheridan College's 2008 illustration graduate show -- a showcase for some spectacular student work -- is being held on Thursday April 24 at 7 p.m.to 1 a.m. and 25th 3 pm to 10 pm [CORRECTED TIMES]. It's in the Burroughes building at 639 Queen Street West in Toronto.Sheridan offers the only Bachelor of Applied Arts specializing in illustration in the country. This year, the show
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04:11
Those who knew and loved Kathy Bergen are mourning her death after an 18-month struggle with cancer. Bergen, who was a skilled production manager for Today's Parent magazine and latterly the Editorial Director of todaysparent.com. She leaves two children, Franny and Tim and Scott, her partner.There will be a memorial service for her on Friday, April 11 at 1 p.m. in the Floral Hall of Edwards
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16:35 ,
If recommendations to the board of the Audit Bureau of Circulations is accepted, the "pink sheet" will be a shadow of its former self. ABC is recommending the size of the publisher's statement -- the hard copy description of the a magazine member's circulation -- could be cut from four pages to two, according to a story in MediaWeek.The idea is to remove information that is of little perceived
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01:34
The Atlantic Journalism Awards, which combine radio, television, newspapers -- 25 categories in all -- have announced their finalists. The awards will be presented in Halifax on May 3. This year, the AJAs present a series of professional development workshops and a panel on freedom of information at the NSCC Waterfront Campus in Dartmouth.during the day preceding the awards gala. Magazine
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20:47
National advertising in movie mag Tribute and its associated titles (Teen Tribute, Kids Tribute in English, En Primeur and En Primeur Jeunesse in French, plus Tribute.ca) will now be sold by Toronto-based Canadian Primedia Sales & Marketing, it has been reported in a story in Media in Canada.Tribute CEO Brian Stewart says the expanded distribution of Tribute's publishing properties into homes,
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20:31 , ,
It's April, already, and a deadline looms to have your say about proposals for re-designing the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) and the Canada Magazine Fund (CMF). The Department of Canadian Heritage has made specific proposals for reform and is seeking comment.While various industry interest groups have participated in roundtables held across the country and will be making formal responses
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20:05
Congratulation to the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers list, which is (more or less -- record keeping has not been their long suit) 10 years old. The listserv was originally conceived as the freelancers' equivalent of the kind of "office bonding" that staffers sometimes enjoy. It has grown into a nice combination of homemade bull session and genuine support group. As such, it is a really
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19:48
Karen Kain, who has announced that she is stepping down as chair of the Canada Council to devote herself to running the National Ballet, was more than an elegant figurehead; a hard-working and effective leader who'll be missed by all cultural industries, including magazines. Under her leadership, the first major increase in funding in many years was locked up.Here's a statement from Magazines
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20:54
A group of British women's magazine editors, working with the Periodical Publishers Association and the British Fashion Council, are planning to draw up a voluntary code of practice for using models, including deciding how much (if any) image enhancement will be allowed and whether to use "size zero" models. This, according to a story in UK Press Gazette.The round-table discussions follow the
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18:21
It's always nice to be noticed, and Briarpatch magazine from Saskatoon certainly appreciates being noticed by such a prestigious source as Utne Reader, which it describes as the "godfather of the alternative press". But we have to agree with Briarpatch that it's a bit rich for Utne to talk about a Canadian insularity.
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16:51
After almost two years of gestation, Chatelaine magazine is launching its new look this week to celebrate its 80th anniversary. The launch kicks off with a gala at the Windsor Arms in Toronto tomorrow night and the plumped-up issue (the largest in the magazine's history) will be selling on newsstands for a special one-time-only prices of $1.99. Subscribers will be receiving their copies this week
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06:32
PMB 2008 is out, and with it come some interesting developments, at least on the English list:Style at Home has gained 108,000 readers since last year (+6.7%)Gardening Life has gained 53,0000 (+3.5%)Canadian House & Home gained 97,000 (+4%)Canadian Living has gained 40,000 (+1%)Chatelaine has lost 355,000 (-8.4%)Canadian Geographic has lost 931,000 (-21.1%)Canadian Home & Country has lost 151,000
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