The Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) has launched an online service auction. It is running now and will do so until winning bids are announced June 5 at PWAC's annual awards dinner in...
The Western Magazine Awards Foundation deadline is Friday 30th, tomorrow, and it really means it this time. It has only recently recovered from various problems with its website and online entry syste...
[Update: Source Interlink Distribution Company, one of the largest newsstand wholesalers in the U.S., faced with losing some of its biggest customers in a dispute over price and payments, has de...
“So many people think they’re not into fashion and clothes, but everybody is. Being even vaguely interested in the esthetic of getting dressed is being into fashion. Some people might use it to shout ...
Salt Spring Books from the village of Ganges, in the heart of the vibrant BC island community, has been named Magazines Canada retailer of the year. Adina Hildebrandt and her knowledgeable staff ...
Outdoor Canada's veers from its usual man-holding-critter cover shots with a summer issue (on newsstands June 9) that harkens back to when manly pursuits were celebrated in pulpy action/adventure maga...
Transcontinental Inc. now has permission from the Competition Bureau to acquire 74 weekly newspapers in Quebec from Sun Media. As a condition, the bureau required that -- of the total 154 Transcon and...
Taddle Creek, the Toronto-based, twice-a-year, award-winning literary magazine is focussing its summer issue on kids. Taddle Creek No. 33 features brand-new fiction and poetry by Philippa Do...
The early bird deadline for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA) is June 9 and the final deadline for this year's competition is June 30. The awards, which are produced by Mastheadonline, have...
The shortlist of finalists for the 2014 Editors’ Choice Awards have been announced by The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME). The winners will be revealed at the annual CSME Gala, held on Wed...
Freelancer Bryan Borzykowski has received the $5,000 first prize in the Portfolio Management Association of Canada's PMAC Awards for Excellence in investment journalism. It was for his work in the&nbs...
Ontario-based magazine publishers are being encouraged to attend either an in-person or webinar information session about the Ontario Media Development Corporation Magazine Fund. Advanced registr...
TIME magazine and Sports Illustrated have opened the door a crack to advertising on covers, with a discreet ad link for Verizon on the address label of this week's issue and next. Newsstand issues wil...
There's been a major shakeup in the news and business division at Rogers Publishing as Duncan Hood moves over from Canadian Business to be editor of MoneySense; he replaces Jonathan Chevreau, who bec...
Last week the Magazines Canada volunteer of the year was named as Immee Chee Wah, vice-president of business planning for Rogers Publishing. This week, the five regional magazine associ...
Zinio, the digital magazine newsstand, has announced an aggressive move to expand by offering an additional 1,000 magazine titles to library patrons, more than doubling the number of titles avail...
I agree with the publisher of This Magazine, Lisa Whittington-Hill, who says on her Facebook post how troubling it is that someone went to the bother of having a rubber stamp made to register their di...
The Editors' Association of Canada (EAC) has formed an international alliance with The American Copy Editors Society (ACES) to provide each other's training and professional development programs at a ...
FASHION magazine from St. Joseph Media is launching a new, enhanced, interactive tablet version. The summer issue, featuring Elle Fanning, is an expansion of the previous digital version of the magazi...
BCBusiness magazine is kicking off Vancouver Craft Beer Week May 29 with a June cover showing a dewy bottle of artisanal brew and an event that includes the premier of "Brew Love", a documen...
"If we are going to fund and build the Internet of the future we all dream of, we are going to need to build a new model of advertising that actually works and that users don’t hate. So, rather t...
by Jodie Renner, editor, author, speaker, blogger A novel won’t draw me in unless I start caring about the protagonist and worrying about what’s going to happen to her – in other words, until I ...
Glamour Magazine Launches Beauty-Focused Digital Site, Lipstick.com (10,000 Words)Time Inc. Will Go Public June 6 (Folio:)Glenn Greenwald: 'I don't trust the UK not to arrest me. T...
Next Issue Canada, the digital magazine subscription service, has added People magazine, Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine to the more than 100 titles it offers tablet subscribers for a single mont...
The Dance Current's May/June 2014 issue chronicles the history of naked dance performance in the 20th and, so far, 21st century. Writer Lucy M. May ranges from Isadora Duncan to Vancouv...
Immee Chee Wah, vice president of business planning for Rogers Publishing, has been named Magazines Canada's volunteer of the year for 2013. She will receive her award at the Magazines Canada Lun...
Magazines Canada, the Canadian magazine industry association, has been shortlisted for the FIPP 2014 Research Awards, being presented June 16 in Hamburg, Germany. The winners will be announce during t...
Author, columnist and two-time National Magazine Award humor writing winner Scott Feschuk is to host this year's Magawards gala in Toronto on June 6. It is the fourth time he has been the host.“Magazi...
The winners of the Atlantic Journalism Awards have been announced and honoured at last night's gala in Halifax. Herald Magazine, published by the Halifax daily, was a multiple award-winner. The magazi...
Though she apparently didn't want a fuss made about it, Angie Gardos is marking her 25th anniversary with Toronto Life. An invitation-only event was held at the chi-chi restaurant Jump last night and ...
Jacqueline LochTC Media has hired Jacqueline Loch away from Rogers Media to run its English-language magazine brands: CanadianLiving, ELLE Canada, Style at Home, CanadianGardening, The Hocke...
A collector from Appleton, Wisconsin sent copies of Time magazine covers for a decade in the '60s and early '70s to the people featured in them and asked for them to be autographed. According to an AP...
"Try to remember that people have better things to do than read your work. So for heaven's sake, try to entice them with some beauty and fun." -- Cartoonist Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobb...
The largest printing company in the U.S., R. R. Donnelly, is looking at ways to provide alternative delivery of magazines in most major urban centres in the country. In an article in Publishing Execut...
The finalists for the Kenneth R. Wilson Awards, representing the best of the business media for 2013, have been announced. Magazine of the Year (professional division):BCBusinessMarketingProfessi...
Given that this blog reported fairly extensively on the fallout from the Ontario Ministry of Labour crackdown on unpaid internships, it seems only reasonable to report that some interns are back, and ...
Vice, the Montreal-based magazine and international media empire, is launching a sports channel -- Vice Sports, natch -- in June, in time for the World Cup of soccer. Vice describes it as “a deep...
Who says there is no good news? With the near certainty that there will be a June election called in Ontario now that the NDP has said it won't support the Wynne government's budget, the legislature ...
Recent data from Starch Syndicated Research shows that readers remain consistently engaged with ads in magazines. In the first four months of 2014, according to a release from GfK, the owners of the S...
The National Magazine Awards nominations announced today are dominated by 10 well-known titles, large and small, with 177 written, integrated, visual and special award nominations. The Walr...
The Professional Writers Association of Canada have announced the three finalists for the PWAC Editor of the Year Award, which will be presented as part of the PWAC annual awards dinner on June 5 duri...