Transcontinental merges media and interactive into one division under Natalie Larivière

Transcontinental Inc. is merging all its media operations -- which include its stable of consumer and trade magazines -- with its interactive division. President of the merged sector, to be called Transcontinental Media, will be Natalie Larivière (who had been president of the media side) and, with the merger, Christian Trudeau, the president of Transcontinental Interactive, is leaving the

Transcon Media to represent Ziff Davis sites (e.g. PCMag.com) in Canada

Transcontinental Media, has entered  into an exclusive new partnership with Ziff Davis, Inc. to represent the Canadian ad inventory for Ziff Davis' flagship property, PCMag.com, as well as ExtremeTech.com and Geek.com. Transcon will be selling sponsorship and custom ad units targeted by category, brand and audience.
"We are truly pleased to have become partners with Ziff Davis and to have the

Speculation starts about Canadianized editions of Hearst magazines

It was probably inevitable that the recent takeover by Hearst Corporation of 49% of the joint venture with Transcontinental Media producing Elle Canada and Elle Quebec would provoke speculation about similar arrangements with other big Hearst titles. And so it has with an item on the Huffington Post by Marc Weisblott though it contains little that would indicate we'll see Canadian editions of

Transcon online sub deal not quite as good as it looks at first

On its face, it looks like a great deal. Transcontinental Media is using couponer Toronto Deals Blog to offer a one-year subscription to Style at Home for $11 and for the Hockey News at $23. But the fine print in the "one-day only" deal is that, while you nominally save 56% off the newsstand price, you'll have to pay $5.95 for shipping, handling and applicable taxes on Style and $7.95 for Hockey