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Canadian Writers Group and Canadian Media Guild poll freelancers in advance of Magawards

The website Story Board, a joint initiative by the union, the Canadian Media Guild and the agency, the Canadian Writers Group, is conducting an online survey of Canadian magazine freelancers, results of which will be released the morning of the National Magazine Awards. Gearing up for the NMAs this month, we thought a survey on the state of magazine freelancing in Canada was in order. It’s also

Magazine world view: Zinio on Android; NIM on Galaxy; Condé (UK) restructures; Time Out expands

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Zinio Digital Newsstand now available on Android technology (Folio:)
Next Issue Media offers preview on Samsung Galaxy tablet (Folio:)
Report: Android Marketplace closes on Apple in volume, but not usage (Folio:)
Condé Nast Digital (UK) set for restructure as Pignataro leaves (Media Week)
British Library creates a "national memory' with digital newspaper archive (Guardian)
Time Out strikes £

Quote, unquote: how the truth about readership is rarely black and white

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"The difficulty with what's "obvious", what anyone can plainly see, is that, in media matters, it's very rarely true."-- Peter Preston, writing in The Guardian about the several "obvious" beliefs: that if you read a big Saturday paper, you won't need one on Sunday; that if you read a newspaper's website, you won't go and and buy a paper; if circulation declines, so will readership; and young

Marijuana seed-selling goes mainstream while promoter languishes in U.S. prison

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If you're looking for irony, it has to include the fact that Marc Emery, the publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine languishes in a Mississippi prison after being extradited from Canada at the behest of the U.S. authorities for selling marijuana seeds. And this week, marijuana seeds will be sold openly by 33 seed companies in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.This, according to an article in

They sing and play among us: Mennonite roots run deep in Manitoba music

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Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers: Mennonite rootsMennonite influences are shot through the literary and music scene in Winnipeg, according to an article in Canadian Mennonite magazine. Aaron Epp notes that writers with Mennonite roots such as David Bergen, Miriam Toews and Di Brandt are self-evident. Perhaps less well-known is the fact that one of the most sought-after recording engineers

The Writers' Union honours Heather Robertson for her championship of freelancers' rights

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Heather Robertson, whose name has become synonymous for championing the rights of freelancers through her fronting of a 12-year class action against some of Canada's largest media companies, has been presented with the Graeme Gibson Award by The Writers' Union. It is only the 3rd time that that the award has been given out since its inception in 1991. According to a story in Quill &

Weighing the magazine factor for Trillium Book Award finalists

Unknown 20:50 awards , fiction question , poetry

Magazines have played a part in the careers of some of the English finalists for the $20,000 Trillium Book Award, Ontario's most prestigious literary prize. Among those for fiction:James Fitzgerald, for What Disturbs the Blood (Random House Canada). Fitzgerald has been a frequent contributor to Toronto Life and the University of Toronto magazine.
Ken Sparling, for Book (Pedlar Press).

Quote, unquote: Rolling Stone founder on packaging print and web

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The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand. And then link it to the magazine in such a way -- or at least this is going to be our strategy -- link it to the magazine in such a way that it does things in the same field with the same brand and the same point of view, but not things you can do in print. Now I

Magazines Canada releases new batch of "hot sheet" information for indy publishers

Unknown 17:55 Magazines Canada , professional development

Magazines Canada has released a new batch of "hotsheets" -- freely available, one-and two-page professional development documents that address a single topic, written by an expert in the field. In all, going back to 2006, there are now 44 hotsheets. The latest batch offers tips on creating podcasts, organizing a launch event and designing better covers to encourage newsstand performance. Plus a

Rogers titles will be providing content for new 24-hour news TV channel

Unknown 17:42 cross-media ownership , Rogers Communications Inc. , TV

Maclean's and other Rogers Publishing magazines will be tapped for content for the new 24-hour news television channel being launched by Rogers Communications Inc. CityNews Channel will be launched in October, a complement to the company's 24-hour news radio station 680 News and Citytv. The new channel will be going up against the recently launched Sun News as well as established all-news outlets

Postal union gives 72-hour notice of possible walkout; mail might not be delivered starting Friday

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Video statement by CUPW president Dennis Lemelin
The required 72 hours notice has been given by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) for strike action against Canada Post Corporation, which could mean that mail will not be delivered starting on Friday morning. The triggering of strike notice required by federal labour law does not necessarily mean that there will be a postal walkout,

Design Edge magazine launches paid iPad and iPhone editions

Unknown 21:07 print and web , print-to-web

Design Edge magazine has launched an iPad and iPhone verison of its bimonthly print publication, effective with its May/June 2011 issue (current). According to a story in Masthead, Design Edge's sister (online) title, the launch is timed for the May/June cover story about "Design and the move to mobile". The tablet edition was produced through Canadian magazine distributor Disticor, which has

Postal disruption may come at first of the week -- or not

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Negotiations are likely to go on through the weekend between Canada Post Corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, but if they fail, mail service for magazines (and everything else) could be disrupted Monday or Tuesday by a strike or a lockout. It seemed likely that by end of day Friday, CUPW would give the required 72 hours notice for a strike, which could see a strike begin Monday

Reader's Digest comes out on top in brand status and strength

Unknown 15:26 branding , brands

Reader's Digest magazine has announced that it achieved the highest score of any magazine brand measured in Canada's largest independent brand equity survey. The BrandAsset Valuator® is a proprietary study conducted by Young & Rubicam Canada Ltd. and among the magazines included, RD came out with the highest score in terms of brand strength and brand status. [The graphic above has been adapted,

Aye, there's the rub; Geist creates erasure poetry contest

Unknown 14:48 promotions , subscriptions

Geist magazine of Vancouver has come up with a wacky new subscription promotion -- the Geiste Erasure Poetry contest. In it, a passage from Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush is copied. Without changing the order of the words, but erasing as they will, entrants (who pay $20 -- which includes a one-year sub) are to create a poem out of the passage. There is no word limit. The winner gets $

Perpetual scholarship of $1,000 ensured in the name of Amber Webb-Bowerman

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A cheque presented to SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary in the name of Amber Webb-Bowerman marked a significant milestone in a remarkable memorial drive. Friends of the journalist, slain three years ago, have managed now, with the $10,497.93 cheque, to build an endowment of more than $28,500 which will ensure that a journalism scholarship of $1,000 will be given in her name in perpetuity. “It was

Chase down the story in a literary publishing board game called Soho!

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Now we know what the editors of the UK literary magazine Smoke have been doing on their recent sabbatical -- they were inventing a board game called Soho!. It should appeal to magazine people on a whole bunch of levels, not least of which being its hilariously complex rules.Each of 2-6 players in the game is the editor of a small literary magazine, chasing the copy from a bunch of recalcitrant

Former Maclean's EIC Bob Lewis named chair of Canadian Journalism Foundation

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Bob Lewis, the former editor-in-chief of Maclean's magazine, has been named the chair of the board of the Canadian Journalism Foundation, succeeding John Macfarlane, editor and co-publisher of The Walrus, who completes a three-year term.In announcing the appointment of Lewis the CJF also named three new board members: Dr. Christopher Waddell, former journalist and director of the journalism

Special issue of The New Yorker includes 50 "Talk of the Town" profiles

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The New Yorker magazine is issuing a special issue this week that, in the style of the famous "Talk of the Town" columns, showcases high profile celebrities from the past 10 years, with 50 profiled. A single sponsor -- USA Network -- bought all of the ad space in the issue to promote its summer line up. According to a post on Audience DevelopmentThe special issue launch is the first-ever print

e-Readers estimated to be owned by 12% of U.S. consumers by end of 2012

Unknown 17:26 e-media , e-readers , print and web

By 2012, 12% of U.S. adults will have some sort of e-reader -- a Kindle, Sony Reader, NOOK or similar device -- according to estimates by eMarketer. By the end of this year, there will be more than 20 million readers in consumers' hands. The information assumes that there is no sharing of devices, but Nielsen reported last year that about a third of e-reader owners share with at least one other

Mail disruption possibility pushed back as negotiations come to the crunch

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[This post has been updated] The earliest there can be a mail strike or lockout, given required 72-hour notice, would be this weekend (more likely Monday) but the likelihood increased only a bit with the rejection Tuesday by Canada Post Corporation of the latest contract proposal from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Neither side has chosen to give the required notice, which is a

MoneySense magazine reports that children are expensive

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The latest issue of MoneySense magazine reports that it costs $1.45 an hour to raise a child; an astounding total of $243,660 to raise one to age 18. And that doesn't include the costs of sending them to college or university. According to a release from the personal finance magazine, it teamed up with a consulting firm to compile the statistics and found that kids cost less as they get older (

Expensive habit; subscribing to prime U.S. titles on the other side of the world

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We may grouse and complain about the costs of print subscriptions or single copies, but in Canada we should count our blessings for not being in Australia, where a subscription to The New Yorker can cost an astounding AU$681.50 a year and Sports Illustrated $563.55. The reason is that those magazines won't even bother selling a subscription directly to readers in the antipodes. According to a

Nominations now being received for Gzowski fellowship for literacy

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Nominations are now being accepted for the Peter Gzowski Life Literacy Fellowship in honour of the late beloved broadcaster, magazine and newspaper editor and writer. The fellowship is administered by ABC Life Literacy Canada and provides one journalist with $3,000 to research and develop a story about adult literacy in Canada. The 2010 winner of the first fellowship was Susan Quinlan of the

Is Kobo e-reader a missed opportunity for magazines?

Unknown 14:05 digital , e-media , e-readers , Kobo , newsstand

More than a year after it launched, the Kobo e-reader newsstand still does not carry a single Canadian magazine. While it offers a range of Canadian newspapers, ranging from the Globe and Mail ($15.95 a month or $0.65 an issue) and the Edmonton Journal ($13.99 a month or $0.55 an issue) the only magazines it offers has not changed or grown and all are U.S.-based. For instance, Harvard Business

Spacing magazine to launch first national print edition

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One of four different covers
Multiple magazine covers have been reported on here several times recently (the Maclean's "tumble" cover; Toronto Life's three random newsstand covers). Now the feisty urban affairs magazine Spacing has taken the concept one better with four different covers used to present its first national print edition (that's the Montreal and eastern Canada edition shown above

Canadian Business magazine U.S. commentator says Research in Motion is toast

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[This post has been updated]Canadian Business magazine commissioned well-known US commentator Henry Blodget (EIC of Business Insider) to pass judgement on the likely fate of the maker of the BlackBerry and (now) the Playbook, Research in Motion. His verdict (published online by Canadian Business and simultaneously on Business Insider)? RIM is toast.

[Update: This article, which I came across on

Didn't your mother tell you not to play with your vegetables?

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Musicworks, the magazine that brings some amazing contemporary music to its readers (every issue comes with a CD) in its upcoming summer issue will be showing readers how to make instruments out of vegetables, such as a carrot made into an ocarina, using only some kitchen tools and a drill. The magazine was inspired by the Vegetable Orchestra of Vienna which creates, composes for and performs on

BC Business editor Matt O'Grady resigns over story spiked by publisher

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O'Grady
The editor-in-chief of BC Business magazine, Matt O'Grady, has resigned after publisher Peter Legge killed an investigative cover story as the magazine was going to press. Today was O'Grady's last day on the job.The spiked cover article, by Richard Littlemore, concerned a libel case won by former senator Ed Lawson against the Vancouver Sun's business columnist David Baines. The article

Publication engagement said to be much higher on an app than on a website

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Word from Britain is that readers spend more time reading a publication using apps on a tablet than on the publication's own website. A story from paidContent.org about research by Tiger Spike says that tablet users spend an average of 30 to 34 minutes on the sites it has developed for clients such as the Telegraph Media Group, The Economist, the Australian and the Mail Online. It also found

The Atlantic opens its editing room to its readers

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Readers of The Atlantic Wire, the very successful online arm of The Atlantic magazine, are being invited to pitch stories and influence the editing process in an open comments thread, according to a story on Mashable, which quotes editor Gabriel Snyder
“As with many web news operations, The Atlantic Wire is mostly edited via terse messages in a group chat room. Editors and writers spend the day

World view: Readers share data; b2b digital rev up; RDA picks new CFO; kids' apps

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Report: 40 per cent of app users opt to share data with publishers (Audience Development)
Why do we need a postal service? (Buzz Machine)
Primedia sold to TPG Capital for $525 Million (Audience Development)
B-to-B digital revenue up 15 percent to $4.6 billion in 2010 (Audience Development)
How the postal service subsidizes The Wall Street Journal -- and Why It Should Stop (Dead Tree Edition)

Preview of Next Issue Media digital newsstand for U.S. titles now online

Unknown 18:19 Circulation , digital , iPad , print and web , subscriptions

A consortium of five major U.S. magazine publishers who formed Next Issue Media in 2009 have finally unveiled their "digital newsstand". According to a story in MediaDailyNews, a preview is available exclusively on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.0, but will be introduced as a standalone app later this year.Next Issue Media was formed by Conde Nast, Hearst Corp., Meredith, News Corp., and Time Inc. with

Hanging in with hope for settlement in the postal labour-management negotations

Unknown 17:59 Canada Post , subscriptions

Magazine publishers large and small have every reason to feel nervous about the 11th hour negotiations between Canada Post Corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Next Wednesday (May 25) is the day on which either CPC will lock out its employees or CUPW will go on strike; either way, distribution of subscription copies and vital direct mail campaign materials will be

No fair, says UK publisher ordered to pay "volunteer" intern more than £1,000

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There is some pushback against a recent decision in the U.K. in which a publishing company was ordered by an employment tribunal to pay more than £1,000 to an unpaid intern. According to a story by the Press Gazette, The National Union of Journalists claimed the first victory when TPG Web Publishing was told an intern working for its MyVillage website had the right to be paid for work she carried

Glacier Media buys a third of Rogers Publishing's b2b magazine properties

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[This post has been updated]In what is a major rationalization of b2b publishing in Canada, Glacier Media Inc has announced the purchase of 15 trade magazines from Rogers Publishing Limited as well as associated digital properties, trade shows and databases that were key parts of its business and professional publishing group. This is about one-third of the Rogers business and professional

Postal talks coming down to the wire; earliest labour action could be May 25

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While talks are continuing between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the union has announced a press conference tomorrow morning to talk about strike action. The earliest date that CUPW could go on strike -- in which case letters, parcels and magazines won't be delivered -- is May 25th.Canada Post has created a dedicated website to update the public by posts, e-mail or

Okey Chigbo promoted to editor of CAmagazine

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Okey Chigbo has been promoted to editor of CAmagazine, where he has worked for the past 13 years, initially as senior editor, then as editor, English edition and, since the departure of the former editor Christian Bellavance last July, interim editor. His appointment was announced to staff effective May 16.Chigbo has worked at and for Canadian magazines including Equinox, Canadian Living and Why

Writer, actor, broadcaster Jacqueline Hennessy to emcee Magawards

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The National Magazine Awards will be emceed by Jacqueline Hennessy a Toronto-based freelance writer, actor and broadcast journalist as well as a former National Magazine Awards Gold winner. She is currently contributing health editor at More magazine and is the former associate editor for Chatelaine magazine. Other journalism awards she was won were the Canadian Nurses Association Award of Merit

OWL magazine for tweens celebrates 35 years of publication

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OWL, the magazine for 9- to 13-year-olds, is celebrating 35 years of publishing in June with a series of events, giveaways and what it calls a "very cool T-shirt". The OWL editors have asked some of their favourite authors, including Cary Fagan, Carol Matas and Arthur Slade, to contribute original stories inspired by a "birthday word". (So, for instance, Kenneth Oppel's story in the June birthday

Georgia Straight writer wins CAJ investigative award for article on meat inspection

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Alex Roslin has won a Canadian Association of Journalists' award for his investigative magazine piece "The Meat of the Matter" in The Georgia Straight. The CAJ awards are Canada's only national recognition for the best in investigative journalism.

Online publishing awards add digital edition and tablet categories

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Entries are now being accepted for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards(COPA). Started originally to honour the best online editorial and design in the magazine industry, the awards have enlarged to encompass newspaper, broadcast and online-only publishers. And in this, its 3rd year, it has added two new categories: best digital edition; and best tablet edition. Also new this year is that gold

Canadian Business Press to become a foundation, concentrating on awards program

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The Canadian Business Press, Canada's oldest business-to-business publishing trade organization, has decided to relinquish being a member-driven organization in favour of a foundation that will ensure the future of the CBP's most important asset, the Kenneth R. Wilson awards (KRWs).In a press release, the organization reported the unanimous decision taken by members at a special meeting.John Kerr

Canadian Family redesigns and relaunches its parenting website

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CanadianFamily.ca
Canadian Family magazine (St Joseph Media) has rebuilt its website CanadianFamily.ca to reflect changes they have seen in online parenting information sites since the site was launched in 2006. One of the most obvious improvements was sections tabbed by age and stage so visitors can quickly find information most relevant to their situation.The centerpiece is the new

Cheaper, faster, bigger volume: is this really the way to go with magazines?

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The announcement this week that future subscribers to The New Yorker will be offered a package including both the print and iPad edition in the U.S. for $69.99 is an indication that the publisher Condé Nast hopes to make up for lower consumer prices digitally with higher volumes of circulation. David Carr in the New York Times says this may well double the circulation of The New Yorker, but at

The Grid (re)launched as a weekly city magazine for Toronto

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The Grid, the revamped and repositioned successor to Torstar's Eye Weekly in Toronto, had a hip and splashy launch last night and the first issue is available free today from boxes dotted around Toronto. It is now a weekly city magazine, shorn of many of its listings (now mostly migrating to Toronto.com) and the sex ads that had been a feature for years. It is complemented by an attractive

Time Inc. CEO leaves after barely six months on the job

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Interesting juxtaposition. National Geographic wins magazine of the year for 2010 and the man who oversaw it is ejected from his job as CEO of Time Inc. after barely six months on the job. A posting from minonline says that John Q. Griffin has left as president of Time Inc.'s News Group (comprised of Fortune, Money, Time and Life.com). Griffin was the president of National Geographic Society

Magazine world view:Three TIMEs; Conde hearts Apple; Nat Geo mag of year; Bloody Esquire

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Nationals step up assault on super-injunctions (Jon Slattery)
Magazine history in the making: three issues in one week for TIME (Mr. Magazine)
Conde Nast strikes subscription deal with Apple (Audience Development)
National Geographic wins magazine of the year (Audience Development)
A new slogan for the (US) postal service: "Just say no" (Dead Tree Edition)
New future US site is powered by "super

45 years of covering the issues -- This Magazine celebrates anniversary

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First issue

45th anniversary issue
It's interesting to see the evolution of a magazine, both in focus and design, over a period of years. This is particularly so for This Magazine, which is celebrating 45 years of progressive publishing. Its 45th anniversary issue which is on newsstands now features 45 profiles by alumni of the magazine, each writing about individuals or organizations they

New editors appointed at Venture Publishing of Alberta

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Mike Ganley, formerly editor of Up Here Business magazine in Yellowknife, has been named editor of Alberta Venture, the flagship magazine of Venture Publishing of Edmonton. He replaces Paul Marck who recently moved to British Columbia. Marck had only been in the job for about a year.Prior to entering journalism, Ganley was a litigation lawyer for six years, practicing in Toronto and Halifax [said

Rogers Media launches franchised iVillage.ca site for women

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Rogers Media , partnering with the U.S. site for women, is launching iVillage.ca today. The site will feature original editorial content, alongside top features from the US partner iVillage.com and stories from Rogers Media brands such as Chatelaine, CityLine and sweetspot.ca.
To mark the launch the site is asking Canadian women to share their passions for the best things in life -- family,

Jess Ross, executive editor of Homemakers named MC Volunteer of the Year

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Jess Ross, the executive editor of Homemakers magazine has been named Magazines Canada’s Volunteer of the Year for 2010, Magazines Canada announced today.A generous and tireless volunteer in service of her industry, Ross is vice president and treasurer of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) and sits on Magazines Canada’s professional development committee and the MagNet curriculum

Saltscapes, Atlantic Business and Progress winners in Atlantic Journalism Awards

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Best cover winner
Saltscapes magazine and Atlantic Business were multiple winners in the Atlantic Journalism Awards which were presented on Saturday in Halifax, Nova Scotia and winners in the magazine-related categories were as follows:
Alec Bruce won gold for best Atlantic magazine article for "Dream Weaver" in Atlantic Business; silver winners were both from Saltscapes magazine -- Heather

Integrity commissioner throws out complaint from NOW magazine against Toronto mayor

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Toronto's integrity commissioner has rejected a complaint from NOW magazine about Mayor Rob Ford's office ordering copies of the magazine to be purged from all city offices. The cover story in the issue was illustrated by a photoshopped image depicting the near-naked mayor. According to a story on the QMI wire, Janet Leiper the commissioner, sent a letter to NOW April 27 saying there were "

Maclean's uses "tumble cover" to highlight both Harper win and bin Laden death

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Front cover
When there is almost too much news to cover in one week's issue, Maclean's has turned to the device of printing two covers -- one with the victorious Stephen Harper, the other with the face of the assassinated leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.

Back cover
The bin Laden cover is inverted on the outside back.They are featured on the 182-page issue (biggest ever for a regular issue

Toronto Life art director Jessica Rose leaving the magazine after three years and a redesign

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Jessica Rose, the Toronto Life art director who redesigned the magazine during her three years there, is moving on. According to a posting on Mastheadonline, she is leaving the magazine in June and moving to England. Rose was a surprise pick when she joined TL, mostly because she was an outsider with little magazine design experience. She said her makeover of the magazine which was launched last

No sex ads in The Grid, says publisher of soon-to-be rebranded Eye Weekly

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When Toronto's Eye Weekly is reborn a week today (May 12) as The Grid, it will no longer have the so-called "escort" ads that have been a staple in the back pages since it was launched. According to an interview with Canadian Business's sales and marketing blog, Eye/Grid editor-in-chief and publisher Laas Turnbull, the ads don't fit with the magazine's reinvention as a weekly city magazine. While

Not one, not two, but three covers on Toronto Life June

Unknown 19:44 newsstands , promotions , single copies

Newsstands that carry Toronto Life will be receiving one of three covers of the June issue, which goes on sale May 12. An equal number of copies of the three different covers will be shipped at random. This is a first for the magazine. The cover subjects are
Malin Akerman (homegrown Holywood "it girl") -- shot by George Pimentel
Aishwarya Rai (a nod to Toronto's hosting of the Indian Film

Sharon McAuley takes a sabbatical from being Toronto Life publisher

Unknown 03:51 departures

The vice-president and group publisher of the urban group at St. Joseph Media, responsible for Toronto Life, Ottawa magazine and the Where publications is taking a breather. Sharon McAuley has been in the demanding job for 6 year and is taking a year's sabbatical, effective May 25th. Staff at St. Joe's were told in an internal memorandum from president Doug Knight that he regretted her decision:

Kenneth R. Wilson b2b awards nominations announced

Unknown 17:49 awards , b-to-b , KRWs

The nominees for the 57th annual Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) Awards nominations, honouring business-to-business publications, have been announced by the Canadian Business Press (CBP) and Magazines Canada. Three magazines are finalists for Magazine of the Year:
Alberta Oil
CAmagazine and
Up Here Business
There were more than 600 individual entries nationwide, 174 submissions from 62 different

Looming deadline for ACE circulation marketing awards -- entries due May 6

Unknown 23:00 ACE Awards , Circulation

Entries for the 2011 ACE Awards for circulation marketers have to be made by May 6, 2011. Winners will be announced at MagNet during the annual CMC lunch on Wednesday June 8. Categories (free entry to CMC members; $30 to others) include:Consumer offline -- renewals, bills, donor, direct mail etc.
Consumer online -- emails, renewals, contests etc.
Consumer retail promotion -- newsstand promotions

Ryerson Review of Journalism summer issue launch party

Unknown 22:35 launches , Ryerson Review

I have been heard, more than once, to say that if the Ryerson Review of Journalism didn't exist, we'd need to invent it. This student-produced, twice-a-year publication often publishes stories about journalism in this country, including magazines, in ways that can be found nowhere else. The summer 2011 issue of the RRJ is being launched in the time-honoured fashion by a party in Toronto on

Bloody X to mark Osama in Time magazine special issue

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Hitler, Sadaam Hussein, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, now Osama bin Laden. Time magazine's cover for only the fourth time in its 88-year history will put a bloody, red "X" across the face of the dead al Qaeda leader in its special May 20 issue out on newsstands on May 16. This, according to minonline.

Time Inc. and Apple make a deal: print subscribers get iPad editions free

Unknown 21:12 iPad , subscriptions , tablets

Time Inc. and Apple Inc. have apparently come to an arrangement about serving its existing subscribers on the iPad. It was reported today from multiple sources that this breaks an impasse between the two companies that may augur well for all magazines being delivered to subscribers on tablets. (It doesn't yet solve the problem of selling new subscriptions for iPads and retaining access to

Applied Arts magazine offers group benefits plan to subscribers

Unknown 20:26 added value , benefits

Talk about added value. Applied Arts magazine has announced a group benefit plan for its subscribers.Starting May 1 its current and new subscribers (many of whom are freelancers, self-employed or small business owners) may purchase insurance at three levels of coverage.“As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations, which started last year with our bold redesign, we were looking to do something

National Magazine Awards nominations have been released

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[This post has been updated]The three finalists for the coveted award Magazine of the Year in this year's 34th annual national magazine awards are Canada's History, Cottage Life and MoneySense. Finalists for the awards were announced today.For the best new creative talent award, the nominees are:Marit Mitchell "This Little Piggy Went To Market", Maisonneuve
Mark Peckmezian "A Man Called Cope",

May 2011

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