U.S. business press editors choose Computerworld and SC as mags of the year

The American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) has chosen IDG's Computerworld magazine as its magazine of the year in the category of titles over $2 million in revenue; and Haymarket's SC magazine for the under-$2 million category, according to a story in Folio:.Judges cited both winners for clean design, use of illustrations, easy pullout data and coverage of timely issues.

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Canadian Business Press buys the Magazine University name

Canadian Business Press (CBP), the service and lobbying group for many of Canada's trade publications has purchased the rights to the name Magazines University from North Island Publishing along with an associated web property. The deal means that CBP will continue running the annual Mags U event (and, possibly some sort of trade show) that had previously been co-produced with North Island's

Glacier Media revenue and earnings up in 2nd quarter

Glacier Media (which was formerly known as Glacier Ventures International Corp.) has released second quarter results that show for the three months ended June 20, the magazine and community newspaper company earned $13.1 million in net income on revenues of $68.9 million, compared with $10.million on $56.3 million in revenues in the same period a year ago. The significant growth was at least in

Rogers b-to-b titles pull out of the Canadian Business Press

[NOTE: This story has been updated. See below.]Rogers Media Publishing is pulling out of the Canadian Business Press (CBP). With its membership will go about 40% of the CBP's budget. Of the 160 CBP member titles, Rogers publishes 36, in both French and English, including some of the largest.John Milne, Senior Vice-President, Rogers Business & Professional Group has sent a memorandum to his senior

Immediacy online, depth in print: the inevitable future of b-to-b publishing

The power of web publishing is inexorably moving strong business to business print brands to reduce their print frequency and making up the difference with beefed-up news and opinion online. In magazine-related circles in Canada, Marketing did just this and so did the magazine industry trade magazine Masthead. Now, Adweek magazine in the U.S. has announced that it is reducing its weekly to 36