Might this be what is called fleeting fame? Ed2010's Toronto chapter is having one of its periodic mixers tomorrow, at which (for a $5 fee), attendees are given a chance at dinner and the chance to pi...
Tomorrow, the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators of Canada (CAPIC) and the Association des illustrateurs et illustratrices in Quebec, in collaboration with the magazine Infopresse ...
Liz Primeau, the founding editor of Canadian Gardening magazine, and former editor of Ontario Living, is in the midst of a whirl of publicity for her recently published memoir My Natural History: The ...
Washington Post Company acquires Foreign Policy magazine(Folio:)Rejected bailout decimates media stocks (MediaDaily News)Borders Books UK launches buy-one-get-one-half-price offerCreative Loafing file...
Since this blog has written several items in the past about the launch of Jewish Living magazine, we feel under some obligation to report, with regret, that publication of the magazine has been suspen...
The Publisher of CBC News, John Cruickshank, has written a column apologizing for publishing a column by Heather Mallick about U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.The volume of complaints p...
They see him as an image-savvy evangelical who has been careful to keep his signals to them under the media radar, but they have no doubt his convictions run deep—so deep that only after he wins a maj...
Reminders about a couple of worthwhile events in Toronto posted about before, that may be of interest to readers:Cracking the 49th parallel: Thursday, October 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ryerson Univer...
That it pays, sometimes, to take chances is apparent by the outsider win from Britain's Radio Times magazine in a cover competition held by the Periodical Publishers Association.( Of course it may als...
I have often felt that so-called "traditional" magazine publishers are being mistaken in chasing after online dollars by trying to compete with search advertising. This doesn't play to magaz...
Some readers of women's weeklies in Britain are not only grumbling about inflated headlines, they're holding the magazines to account. According to a story in the Guardian, two separate complaints to ...
Pharmacy Post, a 15-year-old Rogers Publishing business-to-business title, is being completely renovated,with a new name, a new size (from tab down to standard magazine) and a new look, according to a...
The Canadian Arts Coalition is working with Quebec’s Culture Pour Tous to give everyone in , regardless of any age, sex or politics, the opportunity to vote online for arts and culture. To add your vo...
There's quite a storm over at Châtelaine magazine where readers are threatening boycotts and subscription cancellations because editor-in-chief Lise Ravary is campaigning for the abolition of the Queb...
Faced with a slower-than-expected uptake of digital magazine subscriptions and the fact that many consumers don't know the difference between a digital magazine and a website, a bunch of U.S. magazine...
Magazines interested in lobbying their local member of Parliament about the publications assistance program now have the tools to do so. Magazines Canada has prepared a riding-by-riding spreadsheet ta...
Sunday, September 28 is one of the biggest opportunities for readers to meet magazine-makers and for magazine makers to meet each other in the annual Word on the Street book and magazine festival, whi...
Interesting exchange:A writer in Folio: says that the internet allows corporations to communicate with end users without the mediation of traditional media, like magazines.A reader rebukes the writer,...
With the considerable, and apparently inexorable, pressure of advertisers, editorial integrity is under seige. And to withstand the pressure, says an opinion piece by Lucia Moses, a senior editor of M...
The finalists in the American Society of Magazine Editors best cover awards have been posted. Above are the 2008 Cover of the Year finalists: "Andy is 80", from Interview (June/July); "...
A friendly reminder that the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers list is marking 10 years of existence with a major celebration of Monday, October 6 from 6 p.m. on. The list grew from 6 people who g...
A tribute is being paid tonight in New York (you might just have time) to the late Clay Felker, the founding editor of New York magazine. The memorial service is being held at the New York Society for...
CBC.ca and occasional magazine columnist Heather Mallick seems to have touched a particularly tender nerve with a recent commentary about U.S. vice-presidental candidate Sarah Palin. In her article, s...
In the last five years (2003-2008) 39% of newsmagazines in North America have disappeared, dropping from 75 publications to 45, according to a story in Folio: about data published in the National Dire...
I don't like to rain on the innovation parade, but an article in the National Post hymning the wonders of Time Inc.'s new Maghound single copy service (see previous posts) suggests that this is an una...
The Liberal Party of Canada has told Magazines Canada -- in response to a series of questions about funding and other matters -- thatit would support the continuation of the publications assistance pr...
The Globe and Mail has done us all a favour by pursuing the federal Conservative party's claim that its support for arts and culture has increased during its time in power. The story in Saturday's pap...
So we thought the three covers idea of Maclean's magazine last week was a good one -- with excellent art direction and each cover featuring one of the three leading candidates in the federal election...
Green Living magazine is growing, in more ways than one. Not only has it moved from digest size (having started out as Enviroguide in 2004) once a year to a quarterly, now to full size with a circulat...
The Walrus magazine is 5 years old. A statement published in the October/November issue from Shelley Ambrose, co-publisher and executive director, The Walrus Foundation and John Macfarlane, co-publish...
A nice piece by Sheldon Gordon on the Ryerson Review of Journalism is published in the October issue of University Affairs magazine. It's a wholly-student written magazine which, if it didn't exist, w...
Rabble.ca in its election blog notes that Embassy Magazine, the foreign policy newsweekly, manages to report that most soldiers will be voting Conservative, without quoting any soldiers."I would ...
Al Gore may be getting into the magazine business according to a story in Portfolio magazine.Sources familiar with the former vice president's plans say he is set to announce the acquisition of a sta...
Publishing 2.0 blogger Scott Karp asks whether this promotion is an indicator of the future, selling online ads by giving print advertising as a bonus in the New York Times.
Canadian magazine publishers get a 38% "share of wallet" for the approximately $870 million spent on audited magazines in this country, according to a study by released by Rogers Publishing....
Corduroy, a quarterly arts/entertainment/fashion magazine, recently celebrated its first anniversary being published in New York, according to a story in the Toronto Star. The magazine's fourth, Oct...