by Jodie Renner, editor, author, speaker @JodieRennerEd "SHOW, DON’T TELL" is the most familiar mantra among advisors to fiction writers, and one of the most difficult...
Kim Jernigan (photo: John Haney)Kim Jernigan, the longtime editor of The New Quarterly, who made it into one of the most respected and winningest literary magazines in the country, has been named to r...
Rowland Lorimer of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University is researching the economic impact of magazines throughout Western Canada. The project, which is funded by t...
The Western Magazine Awards has extended its deadline for another month, to May 29th. It is also accepting all entries at early bird rates. The most recent extension is part of the organization's resp...
Elizabeth Weinberg, NYC 2013Fliers, frequent or otherwise, will be able to buy limited edition prints about travel subjects from enRoute magazine in support of the Air Canada Foundation. It's a partne...
Pierre DionThe president and CEO of Quebecor and Quebecor Media, Robert Depatie, has retired for health reasons and has been succeeded by TVA Group president and CEO Pierre Dion, effective immediately...
Unlike kids at Christmas time, investors and financial analysts do not like surprises. Unfortunately, that’s what they’ve received lately from Rogers.Rogers reported earnings per share, total earnings...
The July issue of Ladies' Home Journal will be its last as a periodical. Meredith Corporation has announced that, after 131 years, this cornerstone of women's interest publishing will only be availabl...
TC Media has launched an online marketplace for programmatic buying of advertising on a wide range of websites, principally its own. The Canadian Programmatic Marketplace (www.cpm.tc) means that adver...
ASME unveils best magazine cover finalists (Huffington Post)Vogue to launch expanded web site in September (Women's Wear Daily)What the Quad/Graphics-Brown Deal Tells Us About U.S. Printing, Publ...
"The way audiences behave on-line (and on mobile) is much less predictable than anyone thought it would be. Successful products focus on accessibility, experience and flexibility. Traditionally, ...
A note from Canadian Heritage says that funding applications for business innovations under the Canada Periodical Fund are being accepted now for the 2014-15 fiscal year. It is recommended that applic...
The World's Biggest Bookstore, which was arguably also the world's biggest magazine newsstand, is no more. All evidence of the recently closed downtown Toronto store, owned by Indigo Books and Music, ...
Friends and admirers of magazine writer and author Heather Robertson will want to attend the memorial gathering for her this Sunday in Toronto. It's in the Music Room of Hart House, University of Toro...
Magazines Canada has released its second business media whitepaper, Planning for Growth Across a Turbulent Horizon. The whitepaper (authored by John Milne and me) is the outcome of a recent Business M...
A Twitter post today by Christine Dobby, the Financial Post telecom and media reporter quotes Rogers Media president Keith Pelley saying Next Issue Canada has 45,000 paid subscribers plus 20,000 recei...
The total number of magazine advertising pages tallied in the U.S. market declined by 4% in the first quarter of 2013, from 29,745 down to 28,567. The Publishers Information Bureau, which counts ad pa...
by Jodie Renner, editor and author Below you'll find a template for briefly outlining each of your scenes so you can see at a glance if they work, are relevant, and drive your story forward. Aft...
Playboy magazine last week published a newsstand replica of its first issue, published a tad over 60 years ago, with the cover subject Marilyn Monroe. That first issue was 50 cents; the reprint SIP is...
“The notion that there was no prize-quality feature-writing this year doesn’t imply there’s anything wrong with feature writing; it just suggests there’s something wrong with the prize committee.’’&nb...
The spring 2014 Print Measurement Bureau study shows that readership of all PMB-measured titles has held steady with approximately 1 million readers and that the average readers per copy is 5.1,...
Bill MacPhee, the publisher of the quarterly SZ magazine (formerly known as Schizophrenia Digest) has always spoken out about the stigma of the disease and the fear and misunderstanding that it provok...
Magazines Canada has launched an online store locator which allows readers to use their postal code to find places that carry Canadian magazines. It's part of Canada's Magazine Store, the successor to...
So popular was its first group tour to Detroit last year (it was a sell out) that Spacing magazine has a series planned this year. The tours are the outcome of a discussion by a group of Windsor arch...
Talentum to merge the Tivi and Tietokone into new monthly magazine (WSJ)Forbes licenses brand name to airport newsstands (Folio:)Yes, I could work at Nuts and be a feminist | Mia Bleach ...
Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, has been elected to the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame and will be honoured at the National Magazine Awards dinner in New York on May 1. Carter, who wa...
The editor of the high-brow German weekly Die Zeit has created a slick, biannual international magazine in English, featuring "best-of" content. It's called The Berlin State ...
The annual Sheridan Illustration graduate show is on this Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. (continuing through Friday 2 - 9) at 99 Sudbury Street, Toronto. "New Faces"is a great place ...
The first Dine by Design fundraiser showcase by East Coast Living magazine has resulted in an award of $20,000 to the NSCAD University design faculty. The money will benefit design education through t...
Spread out throughout the magazine business are writers and editors who, as students in the magazine stream at Ryerson University, have had the good fortune to study the form and substance of the busi...
Javier Pascual del Olmo elected president of Spanish magazine association (FIPP)Carat says Asia-Pacific adspend will grow by 5.6 per cent this year (FIPP)Forbes unveils branded airport newsstands in t...
The finalists for the Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJAs) have been named. The awards are presented on Saturday May 10 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront in Halifax. Here are the finalists&n...
A new natural health magazine called sage is to be launched in September in a partnership between Alive Publishing Group Inc. of Richmond, B.C. and Loblaw Companies Limited. The magazine will be...
Unpaid interns at several magazines in Rogers Publishing were let go this morning, the latest fallout from the crackdown last week by the Ontario Ministry of Labour under the terms of the Employment S...
The Calgary Herald has won a first place award for its one-off magazine called Miracle on The Bow, about the flood of the century at the Calgary Zoo. The award is part of Newspaper Canada's Grea...