Great books can -- and often do -- grow from great magazine articles

Allan Casey (Canadian Press)
Many a great Canadian book gets its start, or its impetus, from being first published in a magazine.
Allan Casey of Saskatoon, took the non-fiction prize in the Governor General's Literary Awards for his first full-length book Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada (Greystone Books).Two of the chapters originated as articles published by Canadian Geographic

Maureen Murphy leaving Canadian Geographic

In yet another high-level departure from Canadian Geographic magazine, Maureen Murphy, the Vice-President, Consumer Marketing and Operations, has resigned and will be leaving effective June 15, 2007. It was announced to the staff by André Préfontaine, the Publisher.Murphy was responsible for all new media activities and had been in charge of the merchandising division, which was recently wound

Canadian Geographic lays of 8 more staff; outsources customer service

More layoffs at Canadian Geographic. The word is that 8 people have been let go this week at the Ottawa-based magazine, six of them involved in the member services department which is now redundant with the announcement this week that fulfillment and member services will all be handled by Indas Limited. An earlier post detailed how Canadian Geographic's merchandise division had been shut down

A world of troubles at Canadian Geographic

People in the business have always looked up to Canadian Geographic, as a robust mid-sized title in a country with few of them, as an excellent and prize-winning magazine and as a real publishing success story.Hence the dismay and puzzlement when, last Friday (September 1), seven people, including a couple of senior and longtime employees, were abruptly terminated Among them were Ian McKelvie,