Steve Maich named publisher and editor-in-chief of Rogers's new Sportsnet magazine

Steve Maich, the editor-in-chief of Canadian Business magazine and, as group publisher, of CB, PROFIT and MoneySense magazines, has been appointed publisher and editor-in-chief of Sportsnet magazine, which is due to launch in September. The national biweekly sports title with a projected circulation of 100,000 is the most ambitious startup at Rogers in many years, but is founded on the belief in

Maclean's reprimanded by Quebec press council for "corrupt" cover story

Maclean's magazine has been reprimanded by the Quebec press council for declaring it was "the most corrupt province in Canada" in the cover story of its October 4, 2010 issue.The council released the results of its March 18 decision Tuesday, criticizing the magazine for "lack of journalistic rigour" and for its inflammatory headline. The decision said that Maclean's journalist Martin Patriquin

Rogers syndication practices called into question by Canadian Writers Group

Derek Finkle who runs the Canadian Writers Group, an agency that represents some of Canada's most successful magazine freelancers, has called into question how one large magazine publisher, Rogers is syndicating articles to third party websites. Essentially it is that magazine articles are being posted on third party websites such as Yahoo and MSN by Rogers despite signed contracts with writers

Sanati out as editor of Chatelaine as part of latest Rogers management cuts

The most high-profile layoff in the latest round of Rogers cuts is the dismissal of Chatelaine editor Maryam Sanati, a highly respected journalist who was promoted from deputy editor in February 2008 after piloting the magazine through some difficult times in an acting capacity after the sudden departure of editor Sara Angel. Sanati presided over the relaunch and redesign of the magazine in time

Today's Parent publisher retiring; latest in a major management shakeup at Rogers

Ildiko Marshall, the longtime publisher of Today's Parent magazine (right) is retiring at the end of the year, according to a story in Masthead. It is but the latest in a five-month flurry of management changes that seem to be significantly flattening and consolidating the operational management of the consumer publishing operation under Ken Whyte and Kerry Mitchell.
It seems likely that

Kelly Latimer, publisher of Glow, dismissed by Rogers

A mere 4 months after Kerry Mitchell assumed the new position of executive publisher at Glow magazine (and Cosmetics and Pure), Kelly Latimer, vice-president,* publisher of Glow, has been dismissed.
Mitchell, a vice-president and the publisher of Chatelaine was named vice-president in June assumed the publisher's job at Flare (replacing Orieta Minatel) as well as becoming executive publisher of

Marc Blondeau leaves Rogers

Perhaps the commuting finally got to him. Marc Blondeau, the senior vice-president, consumer publishing and président, Les Éditons Rogers – Québec, will be leaving the company on October 16th, according to a story from Mastheadonline. He has been with the company for nine years and for most of that time has been splitting his time between the Toronto campus and the Montreal offices.The story said