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Reader's Digest Association rebrands as Trusted Media Brands

Reader's Digest Association has dropped the name of its most famous publication to become Trusted Media Brands Inc., a title that the company feels better reflects the business it's in and its future. A story in AdAge reports that the idea is to battle the common assumption that this is principally a one-title publishers when, in fact, things have changed dramatically in the last few years in the

Canadian Business Media strikes partnership with U.S.-based ABM

Canadian Business Media has announced that it is partnering with the U.S.-based ABM (The Association of Business Information and Media Companies, a division of SIIA), In a release, it said that its business-to-business professional members will now (at the member rate) have access to all ABM events and conferences, regional training sessions, ABM research studies and report and the two

TVA Publications makes several key appointments to its Toronto magazine operations

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TVA Publications has made three key appointments concerning its Toronto operations which were acquired from Transcontinental Media in the spring of 2015. .

Chris Purcell

Christopher Purcell has been given the added responsibility of general manager, Toronto, in addition to his work as vice-president marketing and circulation, under which falls responsibility

FIPP World Congress Oct 13 - 15 preparing to welcome hundreds of magazine media people to Toronto

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With a little over two weeks until the big international global magazine media conference, the FIPP World Congress, it is shaping up to be a very big deal. The Congress runs October 13 - 15 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, hosted by Magazines Canada.It is the first time the event has been held in Canada and puts a spotlight on Canada's magazines and their creators. There are a number of

TC Media offers Quebec advertisers a range of content marketing routes to their business and finance customers

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TC Media Business Solutions Group is now offering Quebec advertisers a turnkey menu of ways of reaching Quebec business and finance audiences with marketing and digital strategies applied across various financial platforms: Les Affaires, Finance et
Investissement and Investment
Executive.

“We are very proud to be launching a new line of
services that highlights the talent and expertise of our

Quote, unquote: The need to disrupt the disruptors

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"If the industry doesn't change its ways, rest assured, the cost of advertising will climb inexorably, for brands and all that support them. Scalable ads will have to be replaced by more handcrafted native ads. Extortion payments to blockers will become routine, as retail slotting fees have become routine in the consumer goods industry. Ad-block profiteers and publishers will engage in an

Western Magazine Awards officially cancelled; board asking what should happen next

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The Western Magazine Awards Foundation has officially confirmed that the 2015 competition has been cancelled. (We reported this likelihood in late April when executive director Kate Cockerill had quietly resigned and the foundation's website no longer functioned.)
The volunteer board of directors says despite efforts to reduce costs, including trying to create a targeted sponsorship campaign,

Feminist writing journal Canthius launches

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Always nice to see new titles and writing outlets launch. This time it is Canthius, a literary journal of feminist writing based in Toronto. The first issue launch is Saturday night September 26, 7 - 9 pm at the Likely General, 389 Roncesvalles.

The editors of the journal are Claire Farley,Cira Nickel, and Puneet Dutt. The magazine limits submissions to 3,500 words for fiction and 5 poems for

La Presse to cease weekday print publishing

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One of French Canada's most prominent newspapers, La Presse, is ceasing weekday publication, effective January 1. A hard copy version will now only be available weekly, on Saturdays, and readers will otherwise have to rely on its free tablet app La Presse+.

"Thirty months after its launch, La Presse+ is now more successful than the print version of La Presse after 131 years of existence,"

AMPA seminar day to cover taking your web editorial to the next level

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The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) is hosting a full-day seminar in Calgary called Take Your Web Editorial to the Next Level on Friday, September 25. There will be five presenters:
Mining your metrics to drive traffic and engagement, with digital strategy consultant Lisa Murphy;
Lessons from an Internet marketer: Optimizing your channels to deliver traffic, with Dana DiTomaso,

MagsBC revives MagsWest conference

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The Magazine Association of BC is reviving its MagsWest conference on November 6 at the VSO School of Music in Vancouver. MagsWest is a one-day conference for magazine staff and contributors, freelancers, bloggers and others interested in publishing and promoting creative content. This is good news after a difficult period for MagsBC during the past couple of years becaus funding problems raised

Novelist Lawrence Hill wins Governor General's History Award

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Novelist Lawrence Hill has been selected as this year's recipient of the Governor General's History Award for Popular Media. Known popularly as the Pierre Berton Award, it celebrates those who bring Canadian history to a wide audience through mediums such as publications, film, radio, theatre and the web. He will receive his gold medal from the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General

Canadian Online Publishing Awards finalists announced

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The finalists have been announced for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA). The nominees are in three divisions: Red (consumer); Blue (B2B); and Green (News), in up to 15 categories in each. The winners will be announced November 19 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto. Tickets are now on sale.

Chatelaine tracks down all four federal leaders for Q & As

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In what seems like both a journalistic coup and playing an important part in bringing issues to the fore, Chatelaine magazine has managed to bag and publish interviews with all four federal leaders. Its particularly useful especially in light of the recent cancellation of the "women's debate".

"Plenty of ink has been spilled over what exactly the term “women’s issues” means," the editors said

Digital travel and culinary magazine La Carte publishes first issue

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La Carte magazine has published its first quarterly issue. The Toronto-based digital culinary and travel title has as its first theme food and drink. Maryam Siddiqui explains in her editor's letter that the debut explores “the newest drinks and hottest restaurants around the world and shines a spotlight on the innovative culinary characters behind them.”

The 44-page launch issue was compiled

Sheridan hosts international panel and film on old and new of type design

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Next Monday evening (September 21) Sheridan College is hosting an international panel of type and design experts to talk about where typography has been and where it's going. Panelists will be Matthew Carter, Rod McDonald, Allan Haley and Charles Nix of Monotype. They will discuss the value of the abandoned punch-cutting process for type designers today, who create fonts now using computer-based

Murdoch's 21st Century Fox buying National Geographic

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Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox is buying the venerable National Geographic magazine from the National Geographic Society.

The not-for-profit Society has been publishing the magazine since 1888. It is to receive $725 million and retain a 27% stake in a new joint venture called National Geographic Partners, set up by Murdoch. It is not the first time the two have made a deal: the National

Quote, unquote: Culling the herd

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"The print magazine herd will continue to be culled until what is left will be of great value to both the publishers that are still left standing and to the advertisers who want to reach that kind of specific reader, the reader of printed magazines."
-- Bob Sacks in his column in Publishing Executive

Meredith Corporation and Media General merging into $3 billion multimedia giant

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U.S. magazine media giant Meredith Corporation (Better Homes & Gardens et al) has announced a $2.4 billion agreement to merge with television and digital media company Media General to create a new company to be known as Meredith Media General, according to a story on MediaPost.

The new consolidated company is projected to have annual revenues of $3 billion and will rank as one of the largest

Readers don't know that ads pay for most of their favourite publications

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A British survey shows that most consumers don't understand how their favourite publications are supported. Specifically, what proportion of revenues come from advertising. This, according to a post by Erik Sass on the Publishers Daily blog:

Overall, 62% of the British adults surveyed by Teads either didn’t know that roughly half of newspaper revenues come from advertising in the UK, or greatly

Lineup for Cultural Magazines Summit announced

Unknown 21:21 Magazines Canada , professional development

Magazines Canada has released the detailed schedule for the Cultural Magazines Summit to be held October 16 at the Courtyard Toronto Downtown Hotel. It is the day after the wrapup of the FIPP World Congress and it's a full day of networking, learning and socializing for the Canadian cultural magazine community.

The keynote address will be by writer and literary critic John Freeman, the

Vancouver magazine now searching to replace two top editors

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Michael White

Vancouver magazine is now looking to replace both of its top full-time editors.There remains a continuing online posting for the job of editor-in-chief, to replace John Burns who left July 24. And now the only other full-time editor at the magazine, senior editor Michael White, has also resigned. In a memo to staff, Tom Gierasimczuk , the publisher & general manager, said

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Lucky Peach magazine's parody has to be changed when steakhouse protests parody

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The popular indie magazine Lucky Peach has been served with a cease and desist order for making fun of the Ruth's Chris steakhouse. According to a story in New York Eater, the steakhouse chain was apparently not amused by the parody whereby a one-night-only pop-up restaurant in New York's East Village was to be named Ruth Krishna's Tandoori Steakhouse. It was meant to be "an irreverent mashup of

Newssstand sales continue decline; Canadian single copy dollars down 13.2% in first half

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Single copy magazine sales in Canada and the U.S. in the first half of 2015 continue their long-term decline, according to data compiled by MagNet, which tracks both wholesaler and retail sales. and reported by MediaPost,
While MagNet cautions that some of the figures have had to be estimated, due to the closure of U.S.-based distributor Source Interlink last year and lack of results from the

Peggy Berkowitz stepping down as editor of University Affairs

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Peggy Berkowitz, the award-winning editor of University Affairs magazine, is retiring after more than 20 years, 14 of them as editor. She will be succeeded by her deputy editor Léo Charbonneau.

Berkowitz joined the magazine in 1995 as associate editor after working for the Wall Street Journal and the Ottawa Citizen. As editor, she led it to be named magazine of the year in 2015 at the Kenneth