Outdoor Canada magazine multiple winner at CSME Editors Choice Awards

The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors presented its Editors Choice awards last night in Toronto at the MagNet conference. Outdoor Canada magazine won several awards, including its editor, Patrick Walsh being named Editor of the Year, the magazine itself being named Magazine of the Year (medium circulation) and winning the award for Best Display Writing.  Other award winners:Magazine of the

CSME reschedules snowed-in Pimp Your Blog session to next Tuesday, Feb 15

The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) has set a new date for its Pimp Your Blog session in Toronto. It was cancelled last week because of a snowstorm. The new date is Tuesday, February 15 at the same place, Bar Italia, 582 College Street and at the same time, 6 p.m.. Tickets continue to be $30 at the door and more information can be had at canadianeditors.com.

CSME names awards and promotions coordinators

Mastheadonline reports that the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) has made two additions to its board of directors, both bloggers on the Masthead site: Corinna VanGerwen joins CSME as awards coordinator and Kat Tancock as promotions coordinator. VanGerwen is a freelance editor/writer/stylist as well as writer of Masthead's syndicated Dream Job TK blog. She has worked at magazines

Taking off and getting airborne; three indy launches and how they happened

Three editors of startup indy magazines, one of them exclusively online, will tell how they got their books off the ground at the next Toronto mixer organized by the Canadian Society of Magazines Editors (CSME). Beckie Fox, editor of Garden Making
Doug Wallace, editor of The Kit and
Tammy Thorne, editor of dandyhorse
The event is on Tuesday, November 23 at Bar Italia, 582 College Street, starting

Getting the picture: CSME presents veteran photographer Peter Bregg

The ability of photography to turn a good story into a great one is the subject of the final Canadian Society of Magazines Editors (CSME) luncheon in Toronto on  November 26 at the Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm Street (Yonge and Dundas subway station). Presenter will be veteran photojournalist Peter Bregg (Maclean's, Hello!). $30 for members, $50 for non-members.  RSVP to csmeadmin@

Looming deadline for CSME awards

The deadline for the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors' awards is 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 25. There are awards for best front of book, best display writing, editor of the year and, new this year, best website; any one entry makes a title eligible for Magazine of the Year in one of three consumer circulation categories (small (0 to 49,000), medium (50,000 to 149,000) and large (150,000+) as

CSME discounts its memberships

The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors', as a recognition of recession-tight budgets, is discounting its membership fees, at least in part to keep up entries in its Editors' Choice Awards. (Entries are free, but at least one person from the magazine must be a member of CSME.)Recognizing the tight budgets faced by many of our partners, friends and colleagues in the industry this year, [it says

CSME award winners announced

The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors held their annual Editors' Choice awards dinner on Wednesday evening and the winners are as follows (with judges' comments appended).The following categories are judged by a panel of fellow editors:Trade magazine -- Far North Oil and Gas (This magazine succeeds two-ways as it manages to honour the interest of specific readers within its industry, as well