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 s...
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...
The founder of Today's Parent magazine and the Today's Parent Group, Beverly Topping, is one of the six directors of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) swept out of their positions toda...
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 stor...
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 Developm...
The Globe and Mail will be more like a magazine than a newspaper by late next year as new printing equipment comes online at its primary printer, Transcontinental Inc.What was once the good, grey Glob...
“To be honest with you, I am a lot more concerned by God's verdict regarding my life than the one of historians.” -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in an interview in the September issue of Prestige ...
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 proje...
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 Can...
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 peop...
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 C...
Ad agencies in Montreal are intent on convincing marketers that their city is the ideal place to develop and test international marketing strategies. According to a story in Advertising Age, the agenc...
Lucky, the much-imitated shopping magazine from Condé Nast, started out in 2003 with 14 regional editions.Providing local shopping information and special call-out covers was one of its unique selling...
Faced with a significant portion of its customer base reeling from a 30 per cent decline in ad sales, the circulation audit firm BPA Worldwide (which includes the Canadian Circulation Audit Bureau (CC...
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 cr...
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."W...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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 P...
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 t...
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...
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 Magaz...
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 Can...
David Beers' profile in the Globe and Mail on Saturday was puzzling. The article seemed to celebrate the success of The Tyee online paper but paradoxically I came away from it with the feeling that wh...
There has been a partial thaw in the B.C. freezing of gaming revenue grants. The ministry of housing and social development has lifted a freeze on $159 million dollars, some of which goes in stable fu...
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 -- n...
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...
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 Masth...
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 Di...
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 stree...
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 ...
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...
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, w...
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 f...
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 Pre...
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-en...
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. T...
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...
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 th...
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 p...
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 $...
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,...
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 pa...
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 digit...
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 ov...
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:)...
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...
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...
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 G...
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...
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 creat...
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 Sep...
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...
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 ma...
YLW Connection, Kelowna International Airport’s custom-published magazine, has taken top spot in the Airports Council International-North America 2009 Excellence in Marketing and Communications Contes...
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, Pél...
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 ...
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,...
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.Urs...
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...
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 ...
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 sa...
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 alternat...
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 por...
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 Vancouv...
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 ...
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 wri...
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...
Whatever hope small literary and cultural magazines had that they could change the minds of Canadian Heritage about its 5,000 annual paid threshold for the new Canada Periodical Fund are pretty much ...
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. Mag...
“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 subscrip...
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 H...
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 e...
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...