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Magazines Canada wins international gold research award from FIPP

Magazines Canada has won a gold award at the FIPP Research Awards, presented in Hamburg, Germany, for its "Media Connections Study". The study looked at how consumers engage in all forms of media and the report and presentation was shared with marketers and advertisers, telling them how to better connect with consumers through multiple media channels, including magazines.

Fellow gold winner

HOLO Toronto launch unveils hard copy extension of art, science and tech site

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Yet another example of a hard copy spinoff from a web-based site, this time HOLO, a magazine about emerging convergences of art, science and technology. It is a twice-a-year print extension of the British art, design and technology blog CreativeApplications.net, and the first issue weighs in at a hefty 200 pages. The magazine describes itself as "a periodical about ‘people interrogating

Atlantic Business sells everything, including its editorial, in a good cause

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Promo cover

Atlantic Business magazine is selling its entire October 2014 issue -- including its editorial -- in aid of the charity Team Broken Earth and its work in Haiti.

"We normally do six issues a year," says executive editor Dawn Chafe. "This year, in honour of our 25th anniversary, we decided to create a special bonus issue with all of the proceeds going to support Team Broken Earth –

Internet ad revenue in Canada in 2013 outpaces U.S., overtops television

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For the first time in Canada, online advertising revenue has surpassed television, according to the latest Global Entertainment Media Outlook 2014-2018 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In 2013, internet advertising grew by about 16% (the lowest seen in post-recession years) and brought in $3.8 billion, topping $3.6 billion from television. The report says the likely trend is for internet

Time Warner considering $2.2 billion investment in Vice Media

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Time Warner, which just shucked its Time Inc. magazine division, is in talks to make a major investment in Vice Media. One way the deal might go is for Time Warner to roll HLN, a cable news platform it owns, into Vice Media, in return for a half-interest in the company. The deal is said to be worth roughly $2.2 billion or about 50% more than Vice Media was worth just a year ago.

Other investors

[Updated] English version of Ricardo to launch, again, in September

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[This post has been updated] Ricardo Media is launching an English language version of its magazine Ricardo this September 15. The new edition will publish three times in 2014 and six in 2015.

"A national magazine was our dream from day one," explains celebrity chef Ricardo, owner and the man behind the brand [whose full name is Ricardo Larrivée]. "We waited for our company and our team to

Canadian Family discontinuing print; moves to digital-only

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[This post has been updated]St. Joseph Media announced today that Canadian Family magazine will become digital-only. [The result will be the layoff of seven people, including editor-in-chief Brandi Weikel and art director Colleen Nicholson.]Publication of the print magazine will be suspended following distribution of the summer issue. The company said that while readership is actually higher than

The Tyee's founding editor David Beers to reliquish day-to-day management

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The founding editor of the B.C. online publication The Tyee, David Beers, is stepping away from the day-to-day management, becoming executive editor. He will be concentrating on strategic opportunities for expanding The Tyee and developing other independent media. A new. full-time, editor-in-chief who is to be chosen to replace Beers will run The Tyee's editorial side day to day, according to the

Mag world view: Glamour made over; Ingrams's enemies; ALM Media bought 2nd time; Authors Guild v. Authors Alliance; post-Snowden

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Glamour magazine gets an all-American makeover (Adweek)
A [comic] year post-Snowden (re/Code)
Richard Ingrams goes rogue at The Oldie and Micheal Wolff bites the hand that used to feed him [Video] (Press Gazette)
Ziff Davis Acquires emedia Communications (Folio:)
It's Time for Postal Unions and Mailers To 'KISS' on USPS Reform (Dead Tree Edition)
Wasserstein & Co. to Own ALM Media for Second

Cottage Life named magazine of the year in National Magazine Awards

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Magazine of the Year

Cottage Life was named magazine of the year at the 37th annual National Magazine Awards in Toronto on Friday night. It was an award the magazine won once before, in 1992. It also won gold medals in the categories how-to and service: personal finance & business and silver in the homes and gardens category. [Full awards results]

Best cover

Longtime editor of The New

Toronto freepaper To.night quietly closes

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To.night, the evening freepaper, has published its last in Toronto. According to a post on blogTO, the 5-year-old paper quietly closed after its May 29th issue. Once a weekday daily , at first handed out by eager newsies at various transit locations, and then in scattered news boxes, it was sold in January 2013 to Annex Business Media and has since devolved into a weekly with an entirely

Cathy Watson of Education Today, named PWAC's editor-of-the-year

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Catherine Watson, the editor of Education Today, was named editor of the year by the Professional Writers Association of Canada at an industry event Thursday night. Her nomination said, in part

"As editor of Education Today, the magazine of the Ontario Public School Boards' Association, Cathy has consistently demonstrated a high level of respect for freelance writers. Courtesy, honesty and an

Benjamin News shocks creditors by saying it can't or won't pay its bills

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Benjamin News Inc., the wholesaler which closed in March, has advised its creditors to expect only 25 cents on the dollar, at best, on money the company owes to distributors and, through them, to magazine publishers. In a letter to publishers from Coast to Coast Newsstand Services Partnership's (CTC) CEO Glenn Morgan, he said that when Benjamin closed on April 4 (some 1,400 of its 4,000 retail

Getting ready for anti-spam legislation's impact on precious mailing lists

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Given that many magazines in Canada are only now getting their heads around their obligations under CASL, the anti-spam legislation, the following might be a helpful example. The Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) has recently sent out the following message to people on their email list, which is similar to the e-newsletter lists that many magazines use to promote their businesses. Come

Penny Caldwell named editor of the year at annual CSME Editors' Choice Awards

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Penny Caldwell

Penny Caldwell, the editor of Cottage Life magazine, was once again chosen as editor of the year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) at it annual Editors' Choice Awards in Toronto. She had been similarly chosen in 2006 and 2010. Cottage Life also won for best medium-circulation magazine (50,000 to 150,000) and for display writing.

Spacing magazine won several

Magazine traditional ad revenues will be flat or declining through 2018, says PwC; but digital growth will help hold the line

Unknown 03:34 global media , PwC , research , revenue

A story in Ad Age summarizing some of the implications for the magazine industry of the just-released PwC annual Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2014-2018 suggests that while traditional advertising revenues will be flat or declining, digital growth will help to hold the line.

Consumer magazine revenue will be essentially flat this year at $24.6 billion compared with 2013, according to

Best Practices Guide is still there, awaiting adoption and use

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A discussion about the relationships between editors, magazine and freelancers took place on Wednesday morning at the MagNet industry conference. The views expressed led me to believe that some of the people were unaware of the Best Practices Guide, a draft, collaborative industry document that talks about the obligations and expectations of editors, writers and publishers.

So here are

Glenn Morgan of Coast to Coast receives lifetime achievement award from CMC

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Glenn Morgan, the president and CEO of Coast to Coast Newsstand Services Partnership, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual ACE Awards of the Canadian Circulation Management Association (CMC) on Wednesday in Toronto.

Chatelaine magazine from Rogers Publishing was Magazine of the Year as it completes its 85th anniversary year, during which it enjoyed 68% year-over-year growth

Alliance for Audited Media merges with digital auditing firm ImServices

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The Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), the well-known audience auditing service previously known as the Audit Bureau of Circulations, has joined forces with the ImServices Group, bringing added horsepower to its technology and advertising audits and information services. Among other outcomes of the merger is that it is launching a new viewable ad impression certification service called Certified

BCBusiness and Retail News win as magazines of the year in the KRW Awards

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BCBusiness magazine (Canada Wide) won the magazine of the year in the professional category of the Kenneth R. Wilson awards, presented on Tuesday evening in Toronto. The magazine of the year in the trade category was Retail News, published by the Canadian Gift Association. The magazine was a finalist for the award in 2011. Website of the year was for ACQ Construire. The awards were highlights