Blurb taken out of context, says Salutin

In his Globe and Mail column of today (published also on rabble.ca) Rick Salutin takes a shot at Maclean's magazine for using, as part of a promotion, a single, out-of-context quote from something he said around the time of the magazine's redesign and relaunch. He offers to provide some alternate copy whose intent can't be misinterpreted: “Don't blame me if you subscribed to this mean-spirited

Good news, sort of, sometimes

There was even some good news for magazine publishers at this week's conference of the Magazine Publishers of America, according to an article in Ad Age. Amidst all the 'digital sky is falling' stories of recent weeks and months, there were practical or at least do-able pieces of advice that was taken in by some of the biggest of wigs in the U.S. side of the industry. For instance, one piece of

Rival medical journal may be launched

As anticipated, the members of the editorial board of the Canadian Medical Association Journal who resigned over the firing of the journal's two most senior editors are planning to launch an international journal of their own, according to a story in the Globe and Mail. Indications are it would be electronic.

Reader's Digest inks exclusive online sales deal

Reader's Digest has cut a deal to outsource the sales of advertising for its online offerings in Canada. Redux Media Inc. now has the exclusive rights to sell online advertising on Reader's Digest websites -- rd.ca, selection.ca and ourcanada.ca. (Reader's Digest retains the right to sell integrated ad packages that include print and online.REDUX media Inc. is a Canadian based media

Two Canadian church magazines win awards

Two Canadian church magazines, including the United Church Observer and Glad Tidings, the magazine of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, won awards at the Associated Church Press (ACP) convention in Orlando, Florida. The awards were presented April 25. (The Anglican Journal, the publication of the Anglican Church of Canada, which calls itself a newspaper, won several awards in the same event.The

British mags propose to help small newsstand operators

The U.K. magazine distribution system is quite different from Canada's. For one thing, 85-90% of magazines are bought as single copies at newsttands and from corner newsagents (often on a "standing order" where the newsagent sets aside the magazines for pickup).However, smaller newsagents are threatened by large supermarket chains, with huge newsstands. A new proposal has been put forward by Lord

Search engine blues: damned if you do, damned if you don't

As they plunge into taking full advantage of the web, magazine publishers need to be careful about being taken advantage of BY the web, and specifically the search engines and aggregators. According to a report in Media Daily News, aggregators can strip-mine the unaware publications (much the way this blog does, I suppose).A position paper from the Boston Consulting Group, "A Perspective on

Long haul or short, trucking prices going up

If you ship your magazines anywhere in Canada by truck, be prepared to pay more for it, says David Bradley, the CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance and President of the Ontario Trucking Association. He told the annual freight and distribution conference of the Book & Periodical Council* that there are a number of reasons why operating expenses and consequently prices are going up. The major

Rolling Stone 1,000th issue to have 3D cover

Lenticular imaging, or 3-D to you, will be used to produce the most expensive magazine cover in history, anywhere -- the 1,000th issue of Rolling Stone magazine; the anniversary issue is due to hit the newsstands in Canada and the United States on May 5.It is reported that Wenner Media, the publisher, will be spending 10 times what a normal full-colour cover costs, but as Wil Dana, the managing

Smells like spring

It's definitely awards season and Cosmetics magazine is celebrating the very best fragrance launches in Canada in 2005, at a gala event on Thursday, April 27th at Toronto's York Event Theatre. Cosmetics is published 6 times a year by Rogers Media and is the principal trade magazine for the cosmetics retail industry.

Rogers Media magazine ops have a profitable quarter

The Rogers Media division of Rogers Communications Inc., which consists of its magazine publishing and the Toronto Blue Jays, enjoyed a 9.5 per cent growth in the first quarter. Most growth came from the other operating divisions: 20.1 per cent growth at Rogers Wireless; 53.2 per cent at Rogers Cable and Telecom. The quarterly profit was a $60 million turnaround from a loss the same quarter a

Kenneth R. Wilson finalists announced

The Kenneth R. Wilson Awards -- the top prizes for Canadian trade magazine journalism -- will be announced June 6 in conjunction with Magazines University and the top 10 finalists in each category have been announced by the Canadian Business Press.Interestingly, one of the finalist publications is the embattled Canadian Medical Association Journal and one of the finalist individuals is its fired

A two-bit magazine

In an act that smacks of something close to desperation, Torstar's Weekly Scoop will be selling this week to consumers for 25 cents instead of its regular cover price of $2.99. It returns to regular price next week. "Readers who have read Weekly Scoop once tell us they love our celebrity news, style and entertainment coverage and they become repeat buyers," saidVivian Vassos, Editor-in-Chief,

Shredding a few tears at Report on Business

By turns hilarious and tragic, this item from mastheadonline (subscription req'd) about the Globe and Mail's decision to shred, and reprint, the first issue of Report on [Small] Business magazine's first quarterly issue (200,000 copies!), all because of some pictures that the publisher, Phillip Crawley, thought were in "poor taste". New editor Neil Hulsman will doubtless be wondering why he moved

We're doomed, I tell you, DOOMED!

This personal commentary, by George Simpson, from Media Daily News, seemed worth reprinting in its entirety:The magazine industry seems to be rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Nina Link, who heads the Magazine Publishers of America, responded to Merrill Lynch's report that the Internet will take in more advertising dollars in 2006 than magazines will by saying, "The people who report on

Corporate Knights? Who?

The tidal wave of hype has died down around the apparently unaddressed question surrounding the choice and celebration last week of Brian Mulroney as the "greenest prime minister in Canadian history". The question is "Sez who?" The answer, apparently, is Corporate Knights magazine. And the response to that is, quite frankly, "who?"Curiously this "Canadian magazine for responsible business" is

U of T president blunt about Maclean's survey

"If one of your hands is plunged in boiling water, while the other is frozen in a block of ice, then the average temperature of your two hands is just fine. That's exactly what happens when a range of data about a university are averaged into a single ranking." University of Toronto president David Naylor pulled no punches in an article published in Saturday's Ottawa Citizen, defending the

Magazines we like: WholeNote

Some magazines have a sense of mission about them and this certainly seems to be the case for WholeNote, a controlled circulation music magazine which has retained its homemade feel while growing to be a substantial presence in the market.It's available in Toronto and in a surrounding arc roughly mirroring the Greater Toronto area, with an audited circulation of about 33,000 distributed in more

Up close and participatory

Gosh, doesn't there seem to be a lot of hand-wringing and prognostication these days about the traditional and new media? Reminds me a little of the flurry about "convergence" a couple of years back (don't hear much about that, now).Nevertheless, there are sometimes good sources for the discussion and the Economist is one of those. It has produced a special report that says we are already in an

These young writers today!!

Phil Hall, the editor of PR News in the US and managing editor of the Media Industry Newsletter (MIN), laments the fact that it's so hard to find good, young writers and he thinks he knows some reasons why:1.There are very few contemporary journalism "stars" for tomorrow’s writers to look up to.2. The average journalism student knows nothing about how the "bigger" world operates. 3. The

Canadian Family now online

The re-launched Canadian Family magazine from St. Joseph is now online.Here is a small story on the site launch, from Media in Canada.

Measures for measure

Being great exponents of the power of audience and readership, consumer magazine publishers may welcome the recent announcement that Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI) in the U.S. is testing whether the web can be used to see how quickly a magazine accumulates readers. This, according to a story in MediaPost. If successful, such a method could enable media planners and buyers to compare the reach and

Uninspiring ad sales in first quarter

Magazine ad sales in the U.S -- both consumer and business-to-business -- have been lacklustre for the first quarter of 2006, according to recent releases. Read more about it at MediaPost or by going to the Publishers Information Bureau tab at the Magazine Publishers of America site. The ad results are consistent with (and perhaps the result of) the buzz in the ad world that internet advertising

We won't do it, so there

Four large Canadian universities have refused to take part in Maclean's magazine survey of graduates. This is not their larger, universities issue but an additional venture, part of a standalone issue focused on the undergraduate culture and experience on Canadian campuses.The dissenters (University of Toronto,McMaster University, the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta) told

New columnist at Canadian Lawyer

Canadian Lawyer magazine has given a bully pulpit to Ezra Levant, publisher of the Western Standard, who will now be writing a regular column. His first topic: a lecture on liberalism and why it is so important. Go figure. And, of course, he uses the column to yet again put his own case concerning the so-called "Danish cartoons".

My life sucks. Intermission. Your life sucks

(Off topic, but worth it.) This is what I suppose they mean by repurposing: at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, a theatre piece based on reading from blogs and letting the audience talk back. Good grief.

Elle Girl may not have been what it seemed

Interesting observations from Editor John Harrington in his newsletter The New Single Copy, (sub requ'd) about the decision by Hachette Filipacchi Media to close the apparently successful print edition of Elle Girl. In fact, says Harrington, a magazine which gave every sign of prospering and having a bright future may, in fact, have been bleeding dollars and not showing any signs of being

Quote, unquote

"The people who report on media like to think it's really significant. I don't. It just says there are more opportunities to reach consumers and make powerful partnerships. The powerful brands and media are going to thrive."-- Nina Link, president-CEO, Magazine Publishers of America, commenting in a story in Advertising Age on the Merrill Lynch prediction that internet ad spending will surpass

Perhaps they'll interview Ezra Levant

The Muslim Free Press, which claims to be fhe first national Islamic newspaper in Canada, went into circulation on Tuesday in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, according to a release from the Kuwait News Service. No circulation total was announced.The fortnightly newspaper tackles a number of local and international issues as well as Islamic-oriented political and health matters, with

LIT 11 Launch Party

Come enjoy free food, free booze, free copies of LIT 11, and 4 great readers...for free!
Thursday, April 27th, 7pm to 10pm (reading starts at 8pm)
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Jennifer Michael Hecht
Amy King
Nova Ren Suma
David Wilson

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LIT 11 is Now Available

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Now Reading for LIT 12

We are now reading for LIT 12. We will read submissions until the end of May. We do not read over the summer, but will start reading for LIT 13 in September.

The passing of the Beaver hat

Canada's National History Society decided to hire from within , so the new editor of The Beaver is Doug Whiteway, who has been with the magazine as associate editor since the summer of 1998.

Internet to pip magazines at the post?

According to Merrill Lynch, this year will see internet advertising surpassing magazine advertising for the first time, what Advertising Age calls "a seminal moment", but one which has magazine publishers scrambling to execute their own web plans.

Custom pubs take a big bite

According to research conducted for the industry lobby the Custom Publishing Council and Publications Management magazine, the average company spending on custom publications is now more than US$715,000 annually and more than 1 out of 5 dollars spent on marketing and communications goes on custom publications. The figures are based on 2003 data.Larger companies (>$1 billion in revenues) spend an

Pounding away at the gun culture

Editors of Pound, a Toronto-based hip-hop magazine are poised to publish a book about gun culture, according to an article in the Toronto Star. Rodrigo Bascunan, the 30-year-old founder and publisher and Christian Pearce, a senior editor at the publication, have just completed Enter the Babylon System, Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent.Babylon is a term used in reggae and

It must be the rubber chicken

Atlantic Business magazine recently polled its readers to see what they get out of belonging to business associations in the region and found that, as reported in its March-April issue, while most feel the hard returns are slim, they wouldn't hesistate to continue to belong to the local chamber of commerce or whatnot.About half of the companies surveyed receive little to no new business as a

Web boost for Times

For those who fear traditional media companies are toast because of new media, an interesting report:Despite seeing a drop in profit of $35 million over all in the first quarter, the New York Times's web-related businesses increased by 72 per cent, compared with the same period last year. They accounted for about $62 million in revenue -- or 7.5% of the company's income. The total included income

The fender bender business

Things you might not know, if you didn't read the trades: according to the current issue of Bodyshop magazine, the Canadian trade title for collision repair specialists, their readers are having to get used to the demands posed by the growing number of hybrid cars, with their sophisticated electronics and big batteries. They are also having to adapt to repairing cars that are a different shape

Glitter glut?

Variety, the entertainment industry bible, waded into the matter of celebrity magazines this week with a long piece called Glitter Glut:Flagging mags reflect public's celeb fatigue by Steven Zeitchik. It says that Bonnie Fuller of Star, and her ilk, may have killed off teen magazines like Elle Girl by having teens "trade up" to grownup celebrity books. But it all may be a bubble that's stretched

Hard Candy Q&A

Senior Editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews Hard Candy writer Brian Nelson and director David Slade

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Quote, unquote

"There is a lot that the magazine does better, particularly for certain kinds of advertisers who are interested in visual display. Cars are sold that way. Fashion is sold that way. Soft drinks are sold that way. Most of our key categories are sold with visual imagery. Those people who need to get a lot of data to a consumer--like warranty information, or where it makes sense to offer an

Torstar muscles in

The Record newspaper based in Kitchener has launched a 15,000 controlled circulation business magazine called Rex. Not such an unusual event for the City Media Group of Torstar, which owns the Toronto Star, Record, Spectator, indeed the entire Golden Horseshoe of dailies around the western end of Lake Ontario. But this launch, like the launch of a lifestyle magazine in Hamilton, is somewhat

Atlantic Mags strut their stuff

Editor Gwen Smith will be the keynote speaker at the Celebration of Atlantic Canada Magazines to be held May 5 in Halifax. Smith is the former Editor-in-Chief of the late Elm Street and has now launched a new national magazine called Allergic Living. The event recognizes 75 magazines in the region, with a distribution of 7 million issues a year. Among the people telling their success stories will

Time capsule

Speaking of Time (see below) how about those great guys at CBC.ca who have a banner on their website advertising Time at 78% off the cover price? Way to go, Mother Corp. Of course, it's only fair to say that the CBC would probably be happy to sell similar ads to Canadian titles.

Time; less cost, same revenue. Duh.

Sometimes we think newspaper reporters don't understand business at all. Hence the Toronto Star story about the laying off of the editorial staff of Time Canada, saying that the benefit will be to Maclean's and Rogers, its parent company. In fact, Time gets to keep its "Canadian" status and its Canadian advertising, but to cut the expense of providing Canadian content. How this is interpreted to

Magazine Death Pool

For some good, bitchy fun, we can't think of many blogs that have so much as Magazine Death Pool. Don't take our word for it. Click on over.

Geezer power

Gordon Pape, the last publisher of The Canadian Magazine (latterly called Today)from 1977 to 1982, when it folded, has made a lucrative career since as a financial pundit and mutual fund advisor. Now he is launching a web-based portal aimed at providing financial advice to what is euphemistically called "the mature market". Pape, who was a past chairman of the Magazine Association of Canada and

Katie Degentesh to read at Periodically Speaking, April 11

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Time, the phantom edition

Rumour has it that Time Canada has decided to keep calling itself a Canadian edition, but to rely entirely on Canadian stringers rather than staff writers. Apparently, with the success of split runs like Sport Illustrated and People, maintaining a couple of editorial staffers is considered an unnecessary frill. This is the lamentable natural and logical outcome of the last decade of government

Custom publishing for an ADD* world

The total market for custom publications--including business-to-business publications, magazine-style newsletters for Fortune 500 companies, in-flight magazines, and brand-centered travel, leisure, and health magazines--is topping $22 billion after several consecutive years of 15 percent growth, according to the Custom Publishing Council, quoted in Media Daily News. According to Jane Ottenberg,

China "licenses" no more foreign magazines

In a move that will irritate and frustrate North American and European publishers who could almost taste the opportunities there, China has imposed a moratorium on licensing new foreign magazines for publication. The term "licensing" is a misnomer, since what it really means is an enforced partnership between a Chinese company and a foreign firm; it is the only way any outside publishers could

Time Canada Style and Design has designs for bigger things

Time Canada has quietly launched a spinoff product called Style and Design, which intends to tap into the lifestyle market (going up against some heavy hitters) and appealing to the tenderloin of its own circulation. It has started out with a 28-page "taster" edition in March, included inside the parent magazine. But in the fall, they hope to launch it as a standalone. According the Kris Menon,

Editor named for Rogers/Canada Post magazines

Nicole Labbe has been named Editor-in-Chief of the new home and shopping magazines to be published by Rogers in collaboration with Canada Post. Labbe has been an editor with Coup de Pouce, enRoute and Femme Plus and was recently at TVA Publications. She recently created the first issue of SmartMoves/Déménageur magazine, Rogers' new custom publication for Canada Post, delivered to recent

Quote, unquote

Maclean's Publisher and Editor Ken Whyte gave credit to his predecessors when he circulated a message last week along with the press release about the most recent results from the Print Measurement Bureau:Just wanted you all to see the press release we sent out this afternoon on our latest readership numbers. It's very good news for us. We are back in front of Time magazine. We have about 40%

CanWest Mediaworks experiencing significant losses for Dose and Metro

CanWest Mediaworks Limited Partnership,which publishes the company's daily and weekly newspapers, says that it expects to see the end of losses in for Dose and Metro sometime in 2008. Meanwhile, for the six months ended February 28, the losses for both are $5.1 million. A note in the financial statements suggests that the two properties' losses will eat up about $12.6 million in the year that

Rogue sellers are sneaky and creative

Folio: magazine carries an interesting story about rogue subscription sellers. Among the points Bridget Wells makes is that, while such transients (who sell subs at unauthorized cut rates and then remit a tiny fraction to the publishers, who have to fulfill the subs at a loss) are relatively easy to find, by seeding lists and other devices, they are hard to shut down.Wells, formerly Hearst’s

Peladeau rides to rescue Sun papers

In the elliptical way that press releases sometimes employ to obscure rather than illuminate, Quebecor Inc. has announced that Pierre Karl Peladeau has been named Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Quebecor Media, giving up his position as President and CEO of Quebecor World, the company's troubled printing operation. He is being replaced at Quebecor World by Wes Lucas.This may be the

Brick Q&A

Senior Editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews writer/director Rian Johnson about Brick

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Boy titles on the block?

Felix Dennis is apparently on the prowl to sell his U.S. lad mag properties Maxim, Stuff and Blender, according to a story in Ad Age. He has retained an investment banking firm to shop it around."Dennis has a great track record of not waiting until it is too late to sell, which is the case with Maxim and Stuff," said Mark M. Edmiston, managing director, AdMedia Partners, an investment banking and

New Ontario minister

Ontario's new Minister of Culture -- nominally responsible for magazine policy -- is Caroline DiCocco, the MPP for Sarnia-Lambton since 1999 and Premier Dalton McGuinty's parliamentary assistant. She replaces Madeleine Meilleur, who is now Minister of Community and Social Services, and Minister Responsible for Ontarians with Disabilities, and remains Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs.

If you're gonna squeeze the fruit, squeeze the coconuts

BBC News reports that the staff of a general store in the northeastern part of Tokyo were threatened with a chainsaw when they asked a 70-year-old man to stop reading magazines without buying them.

Murdoch Davis doffs his Beaver hat

Only 8 months after becoming Editor of The Beaver magazine, Murdoch Davis has jumped ship to become the publisher/editor of the Gary (Indiana) Post-Tribune, which is owned by Hollinger International Inc. (We reported his appointment at The Beaver last September.)From 2003 until April 2005, when he was fired, Davis was publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press. Before that, he was vice-president of

Success is not enough

Today's lesson is that it is not always enough to be successful in this business. The announced demise of Elle Girl may give some pause to publishers on both sides of the border, particularly those who are aiming at the teen girl market.Perhaps "demise" is too strong a word, since the brand is going to continue in an online form. But consider the metrics of this magazine, which in 5 years had

Jessica Johnston now Editor at This Magazine

Jessica Johnston, a former copy editor and front-of-the-book editor for This Magazine, most recently managing editor at Corporate Knights, has been named Editor of This.

A small Dose for Vancouver readers

Dose, the "daily magazine" published by CanWest Global is at the back of the pack among people in Vancouver who read a newspaper yesterday, according to the just-released Fall 2005 NADbank study. It was reported in Media in Canada.Even with three free dailies in the market being measured for the first time (Metro, 24 hours and Dose), the traditional dailies still led, with The Province at 27% and

Condé Nast gets it and starts investing in the web

Not to torture a metaphor, but the great liner Conde Nast has finally swung its bow around and is plunging into the web wave headfirst. An article in the New York Times relates how aggressive competition from other, more nimble bridal sites has caused the U.S.'s second-largest magazine publisher to smarten up and create a new, robust and feature-filled web portal.Brides.com combines content from

Reinvention on the farm front

It's one thing to see the writing on the wall; it's quite another to do something about it. A little over a year ago Annex Publishing and Printing Inc. of Simcoe merged two long-established magazines -- Canadian Tobacco Grower and Cash Crop Farming, into Specialty Farms. It was an acknowledgement that the tobacco-growing industry, grown fat and sassy for many years on the sandy soils of the Lake

U.S. machinery? Not so much

According to a report in Machinery and Equipment MRO, the United States is still Canada's dominant export market, but imports now come less and less from the U.S. It is based on a Statistics Canada study covering the period from 1990 to 2005 which shows that the marked drop in the U.S. share of imports is unprecedented in the history of Canada-U.S. trade.The study was released in March 2006 in

The big muskie seal of approval

There is always insider stuff and textural detail in everything, even fishing for muskellunge (commonly called muskies). The agreed international rules and regulations for catching the big fish have been announced, backed up by a blue ribbon panel of judges that includes Gord Pyzer, Fishing Editor of Outdoor Canada. (Apparently Pyzer, who is retired from Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

The mess that was left behind

The current issue of the Legion magazine contains an article by Natalie Salat on a below-the-radar campaign to identify and clean up an unknown number of postwar chemical and biological weapons. This follows earlier reporting by the magazine on the Department of National Defence's Warfare Agent Disposal (WAD) Project to identify sites and set priorities for cleaning them up.Legion's report

Call that a big circulation? Yes

The Xinhua news agency report that the Chinese magazine Reader, exceeded 10 million circulation in April, including unspecified circulation in Canada, where it began distribution in 2004. The bi-monthly claims to be the fourth largest circulation magazine in the world (and the largest in Asia), exceeded only by Reader's Digest, National Geographic and Time.Originally called Reader's Digest, it

My day job is editing a magazine

Pacific Yachting magazine editor Peter A. Robson will soon be racing across the Pacific aboard the 68' Victoria Clipper in what is expected to be the most gruelling leg of the 2005-06 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.At 35,000 miles, it is the longest sailing event in the world. At 10 months, it is also the longest in duration. The 10 identical 68' racing yachts taking part in the race left

Globe notices magazines

Saturday was definitely "magazine day" at the Globe and Mail, which carried an enormous acreage of stories on magazine topics, although much of it was a rehash of stories already reported elswhere: A two-page spread on the whole turmoil surrounding the Canadian Medical Association Journal; An article about the strong readership showing in the Print Measurement Bureau results of What's Cooking