OR: USING "PLAIN LANGUAGE" TO COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELYby Jodie Renner, editor, author, speaker "Are you excavating a subterranean channel?" asked the scholar. "No sir,&q...
It's a very special case, but here's some interesting data about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. Though its print ad pages were down to 82 in 2012 from over 100 in 2008, the president, Mark F...
The Hockey News has stripped an award from twice-convicted pedophile Graham James and he has returned the plaque he was awarded as "man of the year" at an awards luncheon in June 1989. At th...
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The spreading net of Google is now offering publishers an alternative to a paywall with Google Consumer Surveys. According to a story on paidContent, it amounts to a reader getting free digital access...
The finalists have been announced for the Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJAs) and they include a number of regional magazines who will know May 5 which are the winners, as the prizes are presented...
In what was otherwise a tough day for the Department of Canadian Heritage, as a result of the 2012 federal budget, the magazine sector came off alright. Magazines Canada has posted a bulletin to its m...
Texterity, the digital content publishing company, has been acquired by Godengo, Inc. of California. The combined companies will be merged and provide services to more than 1,200 magazine titles from ...
Data from the second half of 2011 from the Audit Bureau of Circulations shows that U.S. magazines have more than doubled their paid, digital circulation, according to a story in Ad Age. But digital st...
The top 100 grossing publication apps in the iPad Newsstand are bringing in about $70,000 a month, according to a two-year study carried out by analytics firm Distimo. In that top rank are the New Yor...
NPR pushes digital sponsorships (MediaDailyNews)National Geographic among leaders in media brands (MediaDailyNews)Tumblr hits 20 billion total posts (Mashable) Longlists announced for 2012 George...
The well-regarded annual graduate show of the Sheridan College illustration degree program has been expanded this year, with a lead-up of a day-long conference called "Illustrationalism". Th...
"With the intense competition these days, I’m so glad I’m not a design grad just starting my career. I’m not sure I could do it to be totally honest. So when I speak with young designers, many of...
Ruth Kelly the president and publisher of Venture Publishing of Edmonton has been given the 2012 Achievement Award in Publishing from the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA). The award, whi...
Newspaper advertising revenues in the U.S. have declined 51.6% in six years -- from $49.4 billion in 2005 to $23.9 billion in 2011. This is according to a story in MediaDailyNews, based on data releas...
An ebook memoir by National Magazine Award winner, novelist and Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith has just been published by the Canadian Writers Group (CWG). Blindsided chronicles Smith's strugg...
It would appear that Dauphin Media has left Canada and that people who subscribed to its Holmes magazine -- which it suspended in November -- have been stiffed. A story in the Toronto Star says that t...
Variety up for sale (Wall Street Journal) Regional Title Introduces Mag-Branded Retail Outlet (Audience Development) Are E-Book Sales Reaching a Plateau? (Dead Tree Edition)Custom content ma...
The Huffington Post will soon launch a weekly iPad magazine that will summarize the best of its reporting, blogs and video. According to a story posted by The Economic Times, president and editor-in-c...
Wired magazine is reported to be inserting near-field communication (NFC) chips in half a million subscribers copies of its April issue. Ad Age says the new-fangled item is accompanied by a traditiona...
"These fact-checking interns, hired for a six-month stint, earn very little glory and no pay, but are vital to the work of the magazine." -- Rachel Giese, senior editor of The Walrus, writi...
VIA Rail Canada's onboard magazine VIA Destinations! has undergone a redesign. The six-times-a-year, wholly bilingual title is contract-published by Éditions Gesca and circulates 60,000 controlled cop...
Freelance writers can stick up for themselves, if they have the patience. According to a post on Story Board, Patricia Pearson has reached a settlement with Rogers Publishing. It took two years and wi...
The team behind Black Tutu (l to r) Katie Madziak, Lauren Parsons, Coco Brecht and Emily DoerAlways good to see bright, young people making magazines. A week Friday (March 30), creative communications...
Magazine publishers who want to improve their impact on the environment can now turn to a guide published by Magazines Canada in collaboration with its regional counterparts and other partners. The Ca...
There has been a substantial recovery in the business-to-business media industry in the U.S., according to data prepared by the Association of Business Information and Media Companies (ABM). Reve...
This blog started on a whim a little over 7 years ago, February 25, 2005. One of the early posts was about the concentration of funding for literary and cultural magazines in two federal ridings in To...
The Tyee, the BC online publication, has always been an innovator and continues to be by offering its readers "master classes", taught by the people whose bylines are familiar to them in The...
Much Twittering and other commenting about the New York Times cutting in half the free articles ahead of its paywall (to be 10 rather than 20). Canada takes it in the ear right away; everyone el...
Though for most magazines digital readers are a quite small proportion of their overall audience, there is a steadily growing trend and it is marked by a recent approval in digital reporting rul...
To say change is a constant in our business is a thumping cliche. Yet, like many cliches, it is true, and nowhere more than in the production department. From time to time I have guests attend th...
"Rapid technological development and an uncertain economic background are the driving forces behind the huge amount of experimentation being undertaken by magazine media companies."-- ...
It's official: HGTV to be the next Hearst book (Multichannel News)Hearst expands line of mag-branded "e-singles" (paidContent)Editor's retool of Ebony magazine back on track (Chicago Tribune...
Two of the key elements in magazine circulation are renewals and invoices and even the best circulators can use a refresher on both of them. So an upcoming event hosted by the Circulation Manage...
Click Media, Inc. of Toronto has entered into an exclusive distribution deal with Future Shop to circulate 100,000 copies of Click, the digital lifestyle (games, technology and movies) magazine in Fut...
PAGE is a newsletter that Magazines Canada publishes periodically to inform media agencies and the magazine publishing community about research that reflects the realities of magazines. The March14 is...
BPA Worldwide, which provides third-party circulation audits to many Canadian magazines, has decided to expand its services to allow it to conduct auditing for organizations outside of the media indus...
Entries are being accepted for the third annual writing awards for features and short articles, presented by the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC). These awards showcase the work of C...
ON Nature magazine will no longer be available on newsstands. Its parent organizaation, Ontario Naturemaking the magazine a pure benefit of membership. According to a story in Mastheadonline, the orga...
Expanding the magazine brand into a consumer show is a trend that many mid- and large-sized publishers have been following increasingly. And Saltscapes has been one of them, launching and running a su...
Cosmopolitan hits 115,000 paid digital subscribers ( Audience Development) Sam's Club launches custom health title (Audience Development) Battleships or Motorboats: Which publishing model wi...
Julie Osborne, the senior director, business planning and integration, consumer publishing at Rogers Publishing Limited, has been promoted to be vice-president of business development. Reporting direc...
The Globe and Mail is introducing Style Advisor, a twice annual oversized glossy magazine starting April 13. The focus of the 64 page "stylebook" will be editorial on key advertising categor...
A new, tablet-only magazine called The Toronto Tempest is to launch on Friday, March 9. The bi-monthly is targetting Toronto, with the focus on tech-savvy, young and influential readers. It will be av...
The former food editor for the late WISH magazine, Donna Dooher, has been named the chair of the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservice Association. She is the executive chef and co-owner of Mildred's T...
For several years, Magazines Canada has been promoting magazine advertising creative through its Best on Page annual competition and show (see the 2011 winners) . Now, and for the next nine weeks, it ...
Momentum, the Vancouver-based cycling lifestyle magazine has converted from being mostly controlled to being a paid bimonthly newsstand publication. beefed up by 40 pages and with a $4.95 cover price....
The founder of Longreads, Mark Armstrong, mused recently about how publishers and editors might change the ecosystem and evolve into something that emphasizes quality of journalism over quantity. Not ...
The just-published issue of Border Crossings magazine marks the important New York retrospective of painter Willem de Kooning through interviews with three noted women painters, one British, one Ameri...
Magazine launches appear to have pulled out of their steep dive, though it is a little early to claim the worst is over. Masthead has for many years done the industry a great favour by compiling a yea...
Magazines Canada has sent a release to all members of the House of Commons encouraging them to support Heritage Minister James Moore's streamlining and modernization of programs supporting cultural in...
Registrations are now open for the annual Canadian magazine industry conference MagNet and the conference website has been launched today, with word that the marquee speaker will be Richard Turley, th...