August 2009

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Mother Jones asked the New York Times to provide a cost breakdown of the major investigative piece in the magazine this past weekend, done in collaboration with ProPublica: 2 years of reporting by a staff writer, full-time: 200kEditing for that period by 2 ProPublica editors: 30kLawyering hours at ProPublica: 20KEditing hours at the Times magazine over past year (from me to copy editors, 5
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In their editors' note in Mother Jones magazine's September /October issue, co-editors Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffrey articulate their scepticism about the belief that, in future, journalism will be free. We liked it enough to reprint the piece. Most of what they say applies equally well in Canada.In our business, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting some expert waxing on about what
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[This post has been updated] The latest Audit Bureau of Circulations' latest data, for the first half of 2009, shows a decline in single copy sales, but a much smaller decline than the same period a year ago. According to a story in Media in Canada, overall paid and verified circulation was down 1.58% (paid subs down just 0.3% and total single copy sales down 8.43%)Although the drop in
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FT Wealth mag launched in U.S. (MediaDaily News)Rolling Stone ties to catch up online (Mediaweek)Magazines get into the digital mainstream (min)Newsstand sales may start trending up (Audience Development)Despite tough economy, a wave of print magazines to launch (Folio:)Commemorative magazine isues boost magazine sales (Ad Age)Publishers weigh up the perils and the positives of advertorials (
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Magazines that receive Canada Council funding are eligible and may now apply for the 2009 Flying Squad program. The program allows for literary and cultural magazines to hire consultants and for projects that address internal organizational challenges, growth opportunities and future development. The deadline is October 15, 2009. The program is managed by Magazines Canada on behalf of the Canada
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17:17
Ian McGugan, the editor of MoneySense magazine, who was the founding editor-in-chief of the publication since it was launched in 1999, has been dismissed by Rogers Publishing. Six staff members of Canadian Business were also fired, according to a report in Mastheadonline.CB executive editor Scott Steele, features editor Andy Holloway, staff writers Sharda Prashad and Jeff Sanford, online managing
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Cosmetics magazine, the Rogers trade publication, is launching a new website aimed at beauty advisors and cosmeticians. CosmeticsMag.com goes live September 1 and is designed to be of interest to people in the industry, but also to "fashionistas" and "beauty junkies" as well, according to a story in Marketing magazine. Links to vendor and retail training sites, as well as beauty schools will also
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Guest post:This week, Monda Rosenberg retired as food editor of Chatelaine magazine after working at the magazine for more than three decades. We asked Rona Maynard, who spent a decade as editor of Chatelaine, to write an appreciation of Rosenberg's remarkable contribution.Among the best perks of editing Chatelaine was being able to take my culinary dilemmas to a maven who knows home cooking the
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Go figure...The managing editor of Time.com, Josh Tyrangiel, says in a web interview:long form Time journalism is just not working online because it is...too long and95% of what Time.com carries is created exclusively for the webBut, according to an interview with New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati, it is the longest articles that get the site the most online traffic.
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After 25 years in business, Utne Reader is making the bold move of increasing its prices dramatically. A one-year subscription goes up 50% to $29.95; the single copy price goes up 40% to $6.99."We're asking those who value quality journalism to support it," said Utne Reader's publisher and editorial director Bryan Welch [reported in Audience Development] in a statement, tapping the current
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A blogger for the Press Gazette points out an example of the downward pressure on wages exemplified by an advertisement for a b2b editor, with the skills to "produce a lively mix of magazines and newsletters". The salary is between £18,000 and £25,000 -- roughly $32,000 to $44,000 at today's exchange rate.So to edit not just one but several publications - in London! - you are getting a salary
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I’m going to keep on believing in most of what I read, of course. Except for one specific area: I’m not interested in anybody who says anything that I like is dead. Liquor. Meat. Books, magazines and newspapers. Personal computers that do not depend upon the cloud. I’m not going to consider anything dead until I’m no longer interested in it, and I’m going to watch out for emotional conflicts of
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Mike Hughes, National Marketing Manager for Transcontinental Media, will be honoured as Newsstand Marketer of the Year at the eighth annual Canadian Newsstand Awards/Grand prix d’excellence en kiosque. The award is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated passion and innovation for a newsstand project. He was won amongst a record number of nominees and will be honoured at the
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The forthcoming harmonization of sales taxes in Ontario has been met with a strange silence, at least publicly, on the part of the province's magazine publishers. It effectively adds 8% to the cost of magazines bought by subscription as of July 2010. Provincial sales tax had previously not been charged on subs (although it had been charged on single copies at the checkout).Magazines Canada seems
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15:05
The recent launch of Magazines Ireland, the new name for an association of 43 Irish publishers brings with it a brand new image. (Previously, the association was called the PPA Ireland -- Periodical Publishers Association Ireland).The association's new logo, in a fetching emerald green (natch) seemed familiar, somehow...Ah, yes.The Irish magazines have a lot in common with Canadian ones. For
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The founders of Dose, the online magazine, have sold their website GigPark to CanPages Inc. Pema Hegan and Noah Godfrey created GigPark to allow searches for local businesses and services. According to a story in the National Post, Canpages, headquartered in Vancouver, B.C., plans to integrate the user recommendation functions from Gigpark.com into its own local search platform at Canpages.ca."
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The federal government is being urged by Magazines Canada to transfer responsibility and the approximately $620,000 funding envelope that affects small cultural magazines distributing fewer than 5,000 paid copies annually to the Canada Council for the Arts.In its pre-budget submission to be released today (Monday), Magazines Canada says that while it supports the new Canada Periodical Fund (CPF),
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Magazines Canada is taking a couple of major strides in serving its new b2b constituency with a series of "Business Media Summits" to be held in October. As will be recalled, this year Magazines Canada began not only to accept, but welcome, trade publications into membership and the new summits are tailored to business media professionals. The two events, one in Toronto, one in Montreal, will
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Another in the occasional look-backs at what was happening in Canadian magazines one, two or more years ago. (Note that Magazines Canada is still talking to the federal government about reining in Canada Post*):One year agoRogers mag content on mobiles running 10,000 downloads a monthCoda, Canada's longest-running jazz magazine, celebrates golden anniversaryKen Whyte to publish biography of press
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The House of Commons industry, science and technology committee has been told by Magazines Canada that Bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act -- the so-called "anti-spam" act -- needs to be modified to remove potential impacts on the Canadian magazine publishing industry. While it agrees that e-commerce needs to be regulated, unwanted spam needs to be managed without unduly restricting
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23:38
Fashion magazines are losing ad revenue and readers (Brand Republic)The Beatles to dominate magazine covers? (Blog Magazine)Vogue magazine documentary to open next week (Blog Magazine)Who's using Anna Wintour's name to sell leggings on Twitter? (Daily Finance)Is Time Magazine's cover story "The Myth About Exercise" irresponsible? (Blog Magazine)The Magazine Group rebrands as TMG (Folio:)News Corp
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Craig Silverman, the prolific Montreal-based freelancer and helmsman of the popular blog (and book) Regret the Error, has added a new gig with PBS MediaShift as an associate editor, according to Mastheadonline. He'll work with contributors on articles and write a monthly feature for MediaShift as well as being involved with sister site Idea Lab. Silverman also writes a weekly column for the
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According to a post by Jason Fell at Folio:, based on documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, no matter what happens in the bankruptcy reorganization of Reader's Digest, its two top managers will have a soft landing.During the Chapter 11 process, [CEO Mary] Berner will be paid $125,000 per month in base salary. Meanwhile, [CFO Tom] Williams will receive $68,200
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14:45
International newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch has shut down the London Paper, the "freesheet" evening paper that, since 2006, has been giving out over half a million copies a day on the streets of London. The paper, which a story in Forbes.com says has been in a brutal struggle for advertising support with the rival London Lite (owned by Associated Newspapers), posted a lost of £12.9 million ($
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The Nova Scotia Policy Review has changed its name to Coastlands: The Maritimes Policy Review.Started in June 2007 as a quarterly and published out of Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, the magazine will under its new name be able to cover the same politics, culture and justice issues, but casting a net over all the Maritime provinces. In a note to readers, editor Rachel Brighton saidUnder the new title
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17:44
It is the latest in a long line of innovations (if you think they're cool) or gimmicks (if you think they're lame), but the fall preview print edition of Entertainment Weekly will contain video. It is due out on newsstands September 11 and the latest attempt by magazine publishers to differentiate their print products.According to a story in MediaPost, the thin, battery-powered player runs a
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22:06
Now there's a cheeky initiative. A web design company in Norwalk, Connecticut is offering magazine publishers a $4,500 discount to trade in their old websites for a new one.GNC Publishing Partners, which has partnered with Fry Communications Inc. (a well-known consulting name in publishing circles) has riffed off the Obama administration's "Cash for Clunkers" grant program, aimed at revitalizing
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I am a part-time faculty member at Ryerson University and teach a course called The Business of Magazine Publishing (CDJN112) which is part of the Magazine Publishing certificate at the Chang School for Continuing Education. The 14-week course is being offered this fall, starting September 14, but people may be having difficulty navigating the Ryerson CE website, which was hacked a few weeks ago.
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Fashion magazines are losing ad revenue and readers (Brand Republic)Gourmet magazine to debut Public Television show (Blog Magazine)Sports Illustrated features regional covers for College Football Preview (Blog Magazine)Charging for content online: some remedial math (Daily Finance)12 tricks for optimizing your freelance career (Freelance Switch)Manchester Evening News pulls out of ABC (Guardian)
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The Walrus magazine is taking the unusual initiative of putting out 90-second video in the style of a movie trailer, promoting a feature for each issue. The current one presents Helen Humphrey's re-enactment of the battle of the Plains of Abraham. The next (due out September 14) will highlight the October cover essay by writer Chris Turner.The videos are being done pro bono by Ingenious Devices,
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There's no word when, but Monocle magazine apparently intends to start one of its iconic shops in Toronto, to join those is London (Marylebone High Street), Palma de Majorca, Zurich and Los Angeles. There are also plans for Seoul and Hong Kong.According to a story in The Independent, the retail side -- which wasn't considered by expat Canadian founder Tyler Brûlé when the magazine was launched --
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19:33
Reader's Digest Association has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and has negotiated agreement in principle for an arrangement to reduce the company's debt to 25 cents on the dollar. According to a story in Folio: the Chapter 11 filing affects only the U.S businesses.Reader's Digest Association (Canada) LLC, based in Montreal, is managed separately (although it mirrored recent
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Meredith Corporation, long known as one of the pre-eminent magazine publishing companies, is re-branding itself to shift the emphasis to its capabilities beyond print.According to a company release the Better Homes & Gardens behemoth has created a new logo (shown) and is promoting its offerings in cross platform, and integrated marketing and renaming some of its divisions; for instance, the
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Pooh-poohed as it was at the start, Journalism Online, the system for helping newspaper, magazine and online publishers to make money from their content, seems to be catching on. More than 170 daily papers have signed on and more than 500 publications in total have agreed to join, representing more than 90 million unique monthly visitors.The company was created by several partners, including
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All working journalists in Canada – reporters, editors, photographers, producers, editorial writers and freelancers or Canadian journalists working abroad -- are eligible for major new awards, up to $20,000 each, for articles related to health research.The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is funding up to five Tier 1 Awards (worth $20,000 each) up to five Tier 2 Awards (worth $10,000 each)
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A British watchdog organization says it has a major concern about the decline in literacy levels among young media recruits, according to a story in Press Gazette.Skillset, the body supporting skills, education and training for the UK's creative media industries, said the impact of digital technology on the publishing world has exposed "critical" skills gaps in businesses where editorial quality
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[This post has been updated] Microsoft faces the very real necessity of changing its ubiquitous Word program or being forbidden to sell it.According to a posting on the Wall Street Journal's legal blog, the company has lost a patent infringement court case to a Canadian firm i4i that could result in Word 2003 or 2007 or any future Word versions being ordered off the shelves come October.The
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Vibe magazine, which recently folded, has been bought by Uptown Media Group in partnership with private equity firm InterMedia Partners and Blackrock Digital, the company which formerly handled digital sales for Vibe.com, according to a story in Folio:. The plan is to relaunch Vibe.com immediately as the "centrepiece of the new venture". The print edition of Vibe will relaunch with a November/
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Assailed by new developments in social networking, even while struggling with the perennial challenges of selling ads and making good magazines, publishers and editors could be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed.You may take comfort (or add to your confusion) by familiarizing yourself with the analysis done by technology market research firm Gartner. It tries to track what it calls the "hype cycle"
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Economist launches single copy subscription service (Guardian)Paid-for content: online readers who pay for content may be more attractive to advertisers (Brand Republic)Is Uptown buying Vibe? (Folio:)Is there a case for Playboy + Maxim? (paidContent)Meredith repositions business divisions (Brand Republic) (Guardian) Guardian News & Media drops bulk salesMPA expands supermarket newsstand promotion
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Flare magazine celebrates its 30th anniversary with its 264-page September issue, on newsstands this week. It features 30 years of the hottest fashion, beauty and celebrity coverage in a magazine with not one, but three covers, each featuring Daria Werbowy, a top super model.And the issue sells for only $1.99."For three decades Flare has remained the style authority for Canadian women, offering a
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19:43
Another fine independent book and magazine store is going out of business, this time in Halifax. According to a posting on The Coast, Frog Hollow Books, which moved recently will close August 22. In a letter to customers, owner Heidi Hallet explained:A number of things have contributed to this decision, from ever increasing rents, the slumping economy and increased competition from online, big
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We don't know whether it would make more people buy magazines and newspapers, but this very stylish, bronze-clad Paperhouse newsstand kiosk is by Heatherwick Studio in Britain and is featured in the Great Ideas issue of Azure magazine. You'll find a slide show that shows the clam-like stand opening up.The kiosk design was commissioned by Kensington & Chelsea Council and two of them have been
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Editors shouldn't apologize for retouching cover subjects, says the editor-in-chief of Self magazine. In a posting on her blog, Lucy Danziger says that Self's portraits are not meant to be unedited or true-to-life snapshots. “This is art, creativity and collaboration. It's not, as in a news photograph, journalism. It is, however, meant to inspire women to want to be their best. That is the point,
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The Walrus Foundation, publishers of The Walrus magazine, are getting a little help from its better-known friends, as award-winning authors, actors, musicians and designers have come together to create a video that promotes the independent magazine and explains why it matters.“We Need The Walrus,” a video that quickly explains why the magazine matters, and encouraging Canadians to read, subscribe
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17:28
Matthew Ingram, the Globe and Mail's communities editor, and Min Sook Lee, the broadcaster and documentarist, are among the speakers announced today to take part in Tedx Toronto, which takes place September 10 at the Theatre Passe Muraille. Ingram will be talking about "Five ways new media will save old media" and Lee about "Raising my toxic baby". Other speakers and their topics can be found
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House Beautiful, a major U.S. shelter magazine, features a "pouch" behind (or sandwiched inside) the front cover for its September issue. It is but the latest attempt by magazine publishers to find a way to strike a balance between maintaining the integrity of editorial covers while finding creative ways to engage advertisers.According to a story in the New York Times the pouch contains a card
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A brief article in the New York Times claims that blow-in cards for magazines are on the verge of vanishing. Seems like wishful thinking. It won't happen anytime soon.The article noted that Outside magazine stopped inserting them last year and The Believer has just stopped doing so, saying that "everybody seems to be subscribing online".Yet, as a recent post here reported that, while it is
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Pierre Karl Péladeau now has full control of the entire Quebecor multimedia empire after buying out his brother Erik, according to a story carried by Canadian Press.In a press release on Thursday, Péladeau said that in accordance with the will of his late father Pierre Péladeau, he had bought "for a nominal amount" (undisclosed) the interests of his brother in the firm Placements Péladeau (PPI),
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The BC Association of Magazine Publishers has taken advantage of an opportunity to promote its publication members in ads in 15 bus shelters around Vancouver.It is part of a City of Vancouver program for non-profits and gives priority to campaigns tied to specific events. So BCAMP is promoting the Word on The Street festival on September 27. It's headed There's More to Explore in B.C.'s Magazines
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18:27
Time Inc. closes Southern Accents (Audience Development)Relax, people: Here's what Murdoch really said about charging for news (Daily Finance)Sulzberger speaks (Media Nation)Off the beaten path: Afar, a new travel magazine, launches (Daily Finance)Pink Magazine shuts down print edition (Folio:)USPS reports $2.4 billion loss in 3rd quarter (Audience Development)
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Marco Ursi is resigning from his editorship of Mastheadonline. He is going back to school to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) to become a teacher. His last day is September 4.Ursi took over as editor in August 2007 and soon after presided over a major renovation of the print magazine's website. Last fall, he was presented with the challenge of making the transition to a
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Canadian Art magazine is celebrating 25 years this fall with a new logo (shown below) , a complete redesign and a larger format, according to a posting on Mastheadonline. The fall anniversary issue is focussed on contemporary Canadian artists who are "setting the pace for the new art scene". The magazine will have reason to celebrate, the story says, since the magazine had record sales revenue
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Parlour magazine, the Edmonton-based fashion, beauty, art and lifestyle title, found an unusual way to launch its latest issue...by taking its guests down the rabbit hole.According to a Vancouver Sun story, the launch party theme was based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and featured models portraying such characters as Alice and the Queen of Hearts in outfits designed by independent local
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21:40
A small magazine can sometimes punch well above its weight, as This Magazine seems to be doing. A posting by regular blogger Emily Hunter about an eco-activist's campaign to get a moratorium on tar sands development in Alberta seems to have struck a nerve in Edmonton.So much so that a government spokesperson wrote and requested corrections to the post, denying any link between polycyclic
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Google has put a digitized version of the Halifax Gazette, June 2, 1753 edition online, the oldest newspaper in its growing archive. It has also put the complete archives of the granddaddy of alternative papers, the Village Voice, online, going back to 1955. Plus papers from around the world, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The Manila Standard and The Nation from
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Magazines Canada has launched AdDirect™, a free, web-based ad preflighting and delivery portal that will help to automate workflow and ad handling for advertisers and advertising agencies. The new portal is powered by SendMyAd.AdDirect™ automatically validates ad files against Magazines Canada and publishers’ specifications and instantly delivers them to any participating title. Plus senders
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A launch party and pep rally for the annual 3-day Novel Contest is to be held on Thursday, August 27 at 7 p.m. at the Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street, Toronto. A similar event will be held in Vancouver on Friday, September 4 at the Lugz Coffee Lounge, 2525 Main Street, where last minute registrations can be dropped off.The contestants and observers will be fueling up for the gruelling
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There is a little over a month 'til the deadline for pre-qualification for the Ontario Media Development Corporation's entertainment and creative cluster partnerships fund. All applicants must submit information for pre-qualification by Wednesday, September 9. Final applications are due Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 5 p.m.Program guideline packages Guidelines and application forms
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17:15
CDS Global has announced that it is handling the circulation management for Youngblood Publishing and its flagship magainze PrintAction. A craft fair for established, emerging and aspring magazine writers is being held by the BC Association of Magazine Publishers (BCAMP) on Saturday, August 15, 2009, 10:00 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. Room 7000, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 Hastings Street, Vancouver. Cost for
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20:19
The decision by the British Columbia government to freeze lottery funds is only the latest blow to magazine publishers in the province.Magazines will cost 7% more next July when a harmonized sales tax comes in.The funding to the BC Arts Council was cut by 40%, inevitably affecting funding for literary and cultural magazines.The former federal support for arts and literary magazines (SALM) is
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22:10
Twitter racks up 44.5m global users (Brand Republic)Teens don't tweet: Twitter growth not fuelled by youth (Brand Republic)Magazine Innovation in Practice: Maggwire, the iTunes for magazines? (Mr. Magazine)AMI Brings Natural Health, Fit Pregnancy Under New Umbrella (Folio:)Rain or snow? No problem, but revenue shortfalls cripple the Postal Service (Daily Finance)Playboy Reports $8.7M second
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17:12
“While we have seen consumer media usage remain generally flat over the past year, the way in which consumers are spending their time continues to evolve. No longer are newspaper and magazine subscription purchases and network prime-time viewing the norm. Instead, they are declining and consumers are spending more time with media which they support and pay for as opposed to ad-supported media,“
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16:50
There are few things greener than recycling and reusing and Natural Life magazine is doing just that by publishing a series of green living books starting this fall. The first book will be Green and Healthy Homes, from Alternate Press, which will sell for $24.95.The book is edited by Wendy Priesnitz, the co-founder and editor of Natural Life. It will include tips on making your own cleaning
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U.S. b2b publishers, like others in print, are feeling the recession both in depressed ad pages and revenue, but also in what had been a growing and hopeful part of their business -- trade shows and events.According to a story from MediaDaily News, trade association American Business Media reported Monday that trade show revenues declined 18.6% during the first half of 2009: down 20.1% during
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23:35
The owner of the well-known/infamous Brunswick House in Toronto is Abbis Mahmoud, the owner and editor-in-chief of Urban Male Magazine, who also owns several bars in Ottawa. But he's facing some heavy duty criticism from his neighbours in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood who don't like the way the traditional jug-o-beer watering hole, favoured by university and college students, has been gradually
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