United Kingdom Magzines

Quote, unquote: On how 10 years of experience has changed Vice

“I think traditionally we have been associated with staying up late and making a lot of noise. Maybe we've grown up, or maybe the world’s changed to such a degree that we can’t ignore it.But the things that get our attention now are more serious than just sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.”-- Vice magzine's UK editor-in-chief Alex Miller talks to Press Gazette about how much the title had evolved in

Public to pick the (British) cover of the century

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April 2005

The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) (the British trade association equivalent to Magazines Canada) is celebrating its centenary by choosing what it says are the 10 best magazine covers of the last 100 years then asking the public to vote on the one they'd like to win. The winner will be named November 21, 100 years since the day the PPA was created in 1913.

Of course

Magazine world view: Girl Scout maggies; NUJ settles; Bloomberg redesigns; So sorry (not); Prevention rolls out new website

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Girl Scouts to sell magazine subs (Audience Development)
Southern Living Partners With Southern-Focused Social Network (Folio:)
NUJ reaches settlement at Guardian and Observer (Jon Slattery)
The cost of magazine living (Mr. Magazine)
Bloomberg Pursuits Redesigns and Ups Frequency (Audience Development)
Case Study: Transitioning Away From a Paywall (Audience Development)
My Heartfelt Apology to

Canadian Cover Awards winners announced

August 2012

The new Canadian Cover Awards were presented last night in Toronto -- successor to the Canadian Newsstand Awards. The new competition, co-presented by the Circulation Management Association of Canada (CMC) and Magazines Canada, differs in several respects from its predecessor, including being agnostic about circulation size.

The new awards are strictly based in seven categories

Quote, unquote: The end of an error

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"Internally, we've been referring to the paywall dropping as 'the end of an error'. It was an interesting experiment that didn't work. We look forward to welcoming back longtime Variety readers when the paywall drops March 1st."
-- Variety's owner, Jay Penske commenting on various changes: dropping online paywall; killing the daily paper; relaunching a redesigned weekly paper. Plus appointing

Dogs in Canada to publish again, in partnership with Globe and Mail

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Bounding back?

Dogs in Canada magazine and its Dogs Annual are being resurrected by a partnership between its owner, The Canadian Kennel Club, and The Globe and Mail. The newspaper company's contract publishing division won the contract after an extended search that began 9 months ago. The magazine ceased publishing at the end of 2011. The plan is apparently to relaunch and redesign the title,

Presets allow reader reactions on Facebook to Hearst magazine content

Unknown 18:11 interactive , print and web

Hearst magazines is launching a way for readers to react more seamlessly through Facebook to stories in their major titles. According to a story in Adweek, the magazine company is using a new platform called MagShare that makes browsing Hearst magazines' websites more interactive. Readers can react to articles using a list of preset actions (like "want" or "love"), which are then posted directly

Non-fiction authors feted at event hosted by Rogers Publishing president Ken Whyte

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Ken Whyte, the president of Rogers Publishing, is hosting an event on Wednesday evening in Toronto at which the shortlisted authors for the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction are interviewed. This is in advance of the naming of the winner on March 4. The event is presented by Authors at Harbourfront Centre and Maclean's magazine. Moderator David Staines talks with
Carol

Libraries buying digital magazines for their borrowers

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A public library in Phoenix, Arizona started in January to make 290 magazines available through the mobile application Zinio, meaning that thousands of library users can read the magazines electronically. According to a story on AZCentral.com, the Phoenix library is one of 500 across the U.S. which subscribes to Zinio and then allows its borrowers to check out an expanding inventory of magazine

Vervegirl magazine claims to create the first 4th dimension magazine cover

Unknown 21:58 covers , promotions

Vervegirl, a magazine aimed at high school teen girls and given out free, claims to have discovered a fourth dimension with its February-March issue out today.

In case you were wondering the 4th dimension is scent -- in this case the scratch 'n' sniff smell of a new line of shampoo from the manufacturer Garnier Fructis.

The cover of the issue features Claire, a cast member of The Avenue, a

Ganley is Alberta editor of the year; Kupser given achievement in publishing award

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Ganley

Mike Ganley, editor of Alberta Venture magazine since 2011, is this year's recipient of the 2013 editor of the year award in the Alberta Magazine Awards. Elaine Kupser, who launched and has run IMPACT Magazine for 22 years, is the recipient of the 2013 Achievement in Publishing award.

Kupser

The awards, along with other individual awards, will be presented March 14 at a gala event

Magazine world view: Demand split?; NUJ boycott; Behind RDA bankrupt filing; new digital era; newsstand canary

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British news organizations spurn freelance reporting from Syria (Romenesko)
Demand Media Says It Will ‘Explore’ Split Into Two Separate Companies (TechCrunch)
Wedding Magazine Flip-Flops on Photographer's Ad Showing Gay Couple (Advertising and Branding)
Cover Sandy recovery and get money (BuzzMachine)
NUJ boycotts editors' code consultation over snub (Jon Slattery)
Newsweek in Print: All Over

Reader's Digest Canada focussing even more on print while U.S. parent flounders

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Reader's Digest Association (Canada) Ltd.says that it is doubling down on print, investing the money it saved by last year shutting its direct marketing division. Phillipe Cloutier, the general manager, told the Globe and Mail

“We’ve taken the approach to walk away from our direct marketing catalogue business and reinvesting that in the magazine business. We used to sell a variety of products,

Toronto Life launching paid event series called "Love Your City"

Unknown 18:43 events , promotions , Toronto Life

Toronto Life is launching its own paid event series called Love Your City, offering curated events with "unique experiences in food and drink, real estate, arts and culture and much more" according to the TL web page. Naturally given the proclivities of the magazine and its audience, the first event will be about real estate.

"Buy, Sell or Hold: The future of Toronto Real Estate" will be on

Crew, a new online magazine for gay males, to launch with big bank support

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An online magazine aimed at gay men is being launched November 26, with the sponsorship of RBC Royal Bank. Crew says it intends to go beyond sex and politics. The publisher is Peter Coish who is president at Cloud Advertising Agents and publisher of DailyXY.com, a web-only publication aimed at men.

"We aim to be the guide to a sophisticated urban male lifestyle. Discovery and web curation is

TC Media senior VP Ted Markle promoted to president

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TC Transcontinental has promoted from within, naming Ted Markle as president of the company's publishing and media division, TC Media. Markle has been senior vice president, content solutions, for TC Media since 2011, having joined the company in 1999. He takes over immediately from François Olivier, president and CEO, TC Transcontinental who has been acting as president of TC Media since last

What journalists mean when fending off PR approaches

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A while back we posted an item about the buzzwords that public relations people use but which journalists hate. So it seems only fair to report some of the lines that journalists use to fend off public relations people. These from British P.R. firm 10 Yetis:

Said by a journalist, to a PR person, with translation:

"I've put it up to the editor, so it's out of my hands." Translation - "I haven't

Western Magazine Awards deadline March 1

Unknown 16:01 awards , Western Magazine Awards

If you're involved in a western Canadian magazine, you've got 10 days to make your entries for the Western Magazine Awards. www.westernmagazineawards.ca The awards are also looking for nominations for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Former Toronto Life art director Jessica Rose creates cover for British Sunday Times mag

Unknown 22:51 art direction , design , illustration

Artwork by Jessica Rose, who was the art director of Toronto Life from 2008 to 2011, is featured on the cover of the February 17 issue of the Sunday Times Magazine, published in London. Rose, who moved to Britain following Toronto Life, is working on a graduate degree and freelancing as an art director and designer.

Among her projects were the ELLE Collections and helping develop a new

Reader's Digest Canada imports idea to launch Taste of Home Canada magazine

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Reader's Digest Canada is launching a new food and entertaining magazine called Taste of Home Canada. It is a Canadianized version of Taste of Home, a U.S. brand that it says is the world's largest food publication, with 3.2 million circulation. The U.S. version already had 75,000 circulation in Canada.

The magazine, in both French and English and produced out of the company's Montreal

Time Warner said to be selling 18 of its magazines to Meredith Corporation

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Time Warner Inc., which encompasses a huge empire of film, television and print, is considering selling most of its magazines to Meredith Corporation, the publisher of Better Homes and Gardens, according to a story published by Bloomberg.com. Some well-known Time Warner titles are not included but the majority are.

Under the terms being discussed, Meredith would acquire all but three of Time

The Grid named best designed newspaper, again, but also wins awards as magazine

Unknown 21:10 awards

The Grid, the newspaper that walks like a magazine, or vice-versa, has won big time again at the annual Society for News Design (SND) awards. The publication, which is owned by Torstar, won as best-designed newspaper in the world for the second year in a row and managed to create a furor when it won in a magazine category as well, taking silver medals for overall magazine design, magazine cover

Azure magazine profiles Regent Park revitalization

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Azure magazine in its March/April issue features inspiring projects from around the world; it's nice to see Canadian projects among them, including the revitalization of Toronto's Regent Park. Writer John Lorinc looks at the five-phase master plan, including Daniels Spectrum a mixed-use building by Diamond Schmitt Architects (shown above).

Canada Council's Flying Squad program to no longer be offered, at least in present form

Unknown 17:51 Canada Council

The Canada Council for Arts's Flying Squad may return in the future in name, but not in its present form. The program's half yearly round was suspended last fall while a review was done and now the spring deadline is also being suspended because the review is taking longer than anticipated.

However, no matter how that turns out, the longstanding assistance program will not be coming back as

Ryerson Review holding fundraiser Feb 13

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The Ryerson Review of Journalism, produced by 4th-year magazine students, is holding a fundraiser on Wednesday, February 13, starting at 8 pm at the Black Bull Tavern (298 Queen Street West, Toronto), with all proceeds going towards production of the magazine. Tickets are $7 at the door. Anyone who knows about or reads this magazine knows how important this publication is to the business.

Magazine world view: Newsstand drag; PPA combines print and digital; erasable cover; outing commenters

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AAM: Newsstand a Drag On Circ as Digital Rises (Audience Development) (Media Week)
AAM: Newsstand a Drag on Circ as Digital Rises (Continued)
PPA to publish combined print and digital figures for magazines
The Law Is On Donahoe's Side Regarding Saturday Delivery (Dead Tree Edition)
Hearst, NBCUniversal Partner to Rebrand G4 as Esquire Network (Folio:)
Edinburgh University newspaper gagged by own

Quote, unquote: On the checkout line attention deficit

Unknown 17:38 mobile , newsstand , quote , single copies

One of the reasons given for the precipitous fall in newsstand sales is the "mobile blinder", the name given to the habit people now have of using their mobile phone while waiting to pay in the supermarket, where once they would have browsed magazines or picked up some chewing gum.

"We do find a number of people, if stalled for a minute, will steal a look at their email or news feed," David

New Transcon freelance contract even more demanding

Unknown 05:14 freelancers , TC Media , unions

TC Media has ramped up the agreement they impose on their freelance contributors and are apparently now insisting on not only full copyright but also a waiver of moral rights. According to a report on Story Board, the new contract terms not only specifies a full transfer of copyright but that is also that it relates to the more than 30 Transcon titles, not just the assigning one. And the moral

Will anti-spam legislation endanger magazine gift subscriptions?

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Michael Geist, the University of Ottawa law professor said in a recent blog posting that the magazine industry and other industry groups such as the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Marketing Association and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada were trying to legalize the secret installation of programs in Canadians' computers to monitor their activities.

His post was

Wine Access magazine, including awards programs, shut down by RedPoint Media

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The February/March issue of Wine Access magazine of Calgary will be its last. The closure of the magazine, its digital properties and associated awards programs was announced on Friday by the publisher RedPoint Media Group Inc.

It also announced that the 2013 Canadian Wine Annual would not be released and the decision effectively means the end of the Canadian Wine Awards which Wine Access ran.

Deadlines loom for magazine awards programs:

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'tis the season for awards, most of which culminate during Magazines Week and the annual MagNet conference in Toronto in June. But before the awards comes the nominating process and there are several with looming deadlines:

Members and non-members alike of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) may enter the 2013 PWAC awards. Anyone, including non-PWAC member, is eligible for the

Getting to The Nub delivers daily content from leading indie mags

Unknown 21:08 indy mags , launches

There are things worth making room for in your smartphone inbox and one of them is The Nub, the indie arts hub that brings arts and culture content from five of Canada's best small magazines.

It's a 5-day-a-week mini-digest delivered to your phone, with a new column, poem, short story, interview, profile, book/zine review, comic or rant. The project is funded by the Ontario Arts Council and

The Kit launches a new, interactive app

Unknown 20:53 apps , interactive , Torstar

The Kit, the beauty and fashion online magazine has unveiled a new app for tablets and smartphones, which debuts with the February issue. The magazine now publishes 10 issues a year of the interactive magazine and the app -- for iPad, Android and Kindle users -- now features 360-degree views of some items, such as being able to see a handbag from all angles.

The magazine, which is part of Star

Magazine world view: Strike vote; UBM sells; Edit shuffle; Amazon may sell used stuff

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Chris Hughes on turning The New Republic into a technology company that adapts to readers (Nieman Journalism Lab)
Guardan and Observer staff in strike action vote (Jon Slattery)
What Happens If the Postal Service Runs Out of Cash? (Dead Tree Edition)
UBM Sells Data Services Businesses (Folio:)
Editorial Leadership Shuffle at Wired.com (Folio:)
Hacked Off says it will consider royal charter for

Quote, unquote: On publishers' struggle to make e-tailing pay

Unknown 23:29 e-commerce , quote

"Understanding editorial and merchandising curation is not the same. Most of these media companies don’t have a single merchandiser in the building.”
-- Ben Lerer, the co-founder of Thrillist, talking about how difficult traditional media companies are finding it to get into e-commerce; they don't want to take risks, he says in a story in Adweek.

ELLE (Canada and Quebec) share model Jessica Paré for March covers

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ELLE Canada (L); select cover (middle); ELLE Quebec (R)

Transcontinental Media's ELLE Canada and ELLE Quebec have, for the first time, shared a model for their cover -- Jessica Paré of the television hit Mad Men. Their March 2013 issues feature her from a shared shoot in Toronto at the Four Seasons Hotel. The March covers of ELLE Canada cover is on newsstands Feb 18; ELLE Quebec's Feb 22. (

People in magazines: Osborne now editor of Azure; Gierasimczuk is VP of Canada Wide

Unknown 17:43

Catherine Osborne has been promoted to be the editor of Azure, the architectural and design magazine, succeeding founding editor Nelda Rodger, who remains as editorial director.

Osborne joined Azure in 2005 as senior editor and was promoted to deputy editor in 2010. She had edited sister title Designlines from 2006 to 2009 and had previously been an editor at The Walrus. She co-launched the

New magazine HB out of Montreal celebrates contemporary drawing

Unknown 16:57 launches

A new twice-annual magazine celebrating drawing is being launched in Montreal on Wednesday. HB (presumably named after the pencil, although the logo is an eraser) describes itself thus:

HB is a magazine, a gallery on paper, a platform—a dynamic space dedicated to contemporary drawing. We intend to showcase the work of a wide range of artists, from the hard-to-miss who have made their mark on

The future of "contextualized commerce" in magazines

Unknown 16:08 advertorial

The president of Dwell Media and publisher of Dwell magazine, Michela O'Connor, enthuses about the joys of "contextualized commerce", which means that the recent special "fully shoppable" online issue of the magazine will likely become the norm.

Over the past two years, Dwell has experimented with different e-commerce models through partnerships with OpenSky and Gilt. Those initiatives have come

Amazon discontinues its recently launched Canadian online newsstand

Unknown 15:45

[This post has been updated] Amazon has discontinued its Canadian online newsstand only weeks after launching it. It means that Canadian magazines and books no longer will have a "Canadian storefront" on the popular Kindle tablet, according to a story posted on the Globe and Mail website by media reporter Steve Ladurantaye. It means that individual single digital copies will no longer be

Quote, unquote: A magazine website standing on its own

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"The website is it's own business, it's not an extension of the magazine at all. We do put some of the magazine content online, but 97 percent of it is all original. If you're running a website and you want to grow it from a few million dollars in revenue to tens of millions of dollars you have to look at it as its own business and you have to look at the ad model, the e-commerce model, and

Quote, unquote: Shrinkage at the Post

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"There was a time in my tenure here where it was a standalone magazine, and then obviously it became a broadsheet section, and then it became a couple of pages of a broadsheet section. So I guess it was lacking a bit of the 'oomph' compared to having a book in your hand versus finding a couple of pages tacked onto the back of another section. We thought this was a better reading experience

Magazine world view: TNY adds channels; making blog money; NatGeo and Google+; "Fancy" pubs sold; endangered passwords

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New Yorker to launch business and expanded sci-tech online channels (Adweek)
Public is public…except in journalism? (BuzzMachine)
How Even Mediocre Writers Can Create a Marketable Freelance Business Blog (FreelanceSwitch)
Print Magazines Are NOT Going the Way Vinyl Went… and That’s Why. (Mr. Magazine)
A Case Study in Google+: National Geographic (Folio:)
In settlement with French publishers,

February 2013

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