Reader's Digest names digital and consumer marketing veeps

Reader's Digest has appointed two new vice-presidents. Ray Philipose is the new vice president integrated solutions and digital and Marie-Josée Tessier as the new vice president consumer marketing.

Philipose


Tessier
Philipose was most recently with Canwest Digital as vice president, strategy and product development, and prior to that, he was director of media operations at Sympatico /MSN

New editors appointed at Venture Publishing of Alberta

Mike Ganley, formerly editor of Up Here Business magazine in Yellowknife, has been named editor of Alberta Venture, the flagship magazine of Venture Publishing of Edmonton. He replaces Paul Marck who recently moved to British Columbia. Marck had only been in the job for about a year.Prior to entering journalism, Ganley was a litigation lawyer for six years, practicing in Toronto and Halifax [said

Starnino leaves Maisonneuve to join Reader's Digest; Drew Nelles new EIC

Nelles and publisher Varkhonyi
The longtime editor-in-chief of Maisonneuve magazine, Carmine Starnino is stepping down. He co-founded the Montreal magazine with Derek Webster in 2002, who left to become managing editor of Reader's Digest in 2009. For the past year, Starnino has been working as a part-time editor at RD and will now be joining it full time as senior editor. Starnino will stay on

Toronto Life names Maryam Sanati (ex-Chatelaine) as editorial director, special projects

Toronto Life has announced that Maryam Sanati, the much-admired former editor of Chatelaine, deputy editor at Report on Business magazine and of Shift, has been appointed to the newly created role of Editorial Director, Special Projects. (Sanati was dismissed by Chatelaine a little over a year ago after being appointed editor the previous year, piloting it through a redesign and its 80th

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

Ken Whyte now responsible for all Rogers's English and French consumer publishing

Ken Whyte has now been given responsibility for all consumer publications at Rogers Publishing Limited. It was announced today in a message to staff from Brian Segal, the President and CEO of Rogers Publishing which said
Effective immediately, I am expanding the responsibilities of Ken Whyte in his role as Executive Vice-President, Consumer Publishing, Rogers Publishing Limited. Ken will now be

Rogers consumer publishing names Steve Maich as group publisher of business magazines

Steve Maich, heretofore editor in chief of Canadian Business at Rogers Publishing has been appointed immediately to a newly created role as group publisher of all consumer business magazines, including Canadian Business, MoneySense and Profit.  He will continue as editor in chief of Canadian Business but, according to a memo from Ken Whyte, executive vice-president, consumer publishing, will also

Conservative gadfly Ezra Levant moving to Toronto to be a SUN-TV commentator

Erickson & Levant
Ezra Levant, who for several years published the Western Standard, a conservative magazine in Calgary, is moving to Toronto to be a commentator on Sun TV, the "Fox North" channel being launched early next year, after expected approval of its license by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecomunications Commission (CRTC). Levant's appointment and that of former CBC journalist

Western Living promotes from within, as Anicka Quin named editor-in-chief

A major appointment has been made at Canada's largest regional magazine, Transcontinental Media's Western Living. Anicka Quin has been promoted to editor-in-chief.


Anicka Quin

Quin had been executive editor of Western Living and editor of Western Living Condo. She started working for the magazine as an intern in 2002 while enrolled in the masters of publishing program at Simon Fraser

Ken Whyte named executive VP for Rogers Publishing

The ascent of Ken Whyte at Rogers Media proceeds apace with today's announcement that he has been appointed Executive Vice-president,Consumer Publishing for Rogers Publishing Limited. "In this new role, Ken is responsible for overseeing all English consumer publishing, with the exception of Hello! Canada and LOULOU," said president Brian Segal. "The leadership team at LOULOU, Châtelaine, and L’

Two to run Briarpatch magazine as Dave Oswald Mitchell departs after five years

Under new management
Briarpatch, the Regina-based contemporary issues magazine, marks the departure of  Dave Oswald Mitchell, its editor for the past 5 years, by having the editor and publisher roles shared by two key staffers. A release from the magazine said Mitchell played a key role in engineering the shift, then headed for the door to pursue other opportunities. In Mitchell’s absence,

Alison Eastwood promoted to EIC of Hello! Canada

Hello! Canada magazine has promoted from within and appointed Alison Eastwood from deputy editor to editor-in-chief, replacing the departing Ciara Hunt. According to a release from Rogers Publishing, Eastwood takes over the job helming the celebrity weekly officially on August 25. Eastwood has been with the magazine since its joint venture launch in 2006, as the Canadian franchise in a worldwide

CTV exec Keith Pelley named as president of Rogers Media

Keith Pelley, vice-president of strategic planning at CTV, has been named president of Rogers Media, succeeding the retiring Tony Viner. As such, Pelley will be responsible for Rogers Publishing and its consimer and trade magazines and web properties as well as Rogers Broadcasting, Sportsnet, The Shopping Channel, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Rogers Centre.Previous to CTV, Pelley served as

Laas Turnbull to be publisher and editor of Star Media's Eye Weekly

Laas Turnbull, who recently left Brunico Communications (Strategy etc.) where he was executive vice-president  is joining Star Media Group as publisher and editor of  Eye Weekly , responsible for all print and online properties. According to a post in Masthead, Turnbull will report directly to Star Media Group president and Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank.

Turnbull quit as editor of the

Print, online and mobile staff at LouLou to report to a "director of multiplatform content"

Rogers Publishing has created a new title at LouLou magazine -- director of multiplatform content -- and has given the job to Julia Cyboran (right). She had been with the shopping magazine since 2006 as editorial manager on the web team. According to a posting on Masthead, Cyboran will now oversee print, online and mobile staff. Claude Laframboise, who has been editor-in-chief of the print

American Business Media names Clark Pettit as new president and CEO

American Business Media, the trade association of U.S. b2b publishers, has announced that Clark Pettit is its new president and CEO, succeeding Gordon Hughes, according to a bulletin from Folio:. ABM's closest equivalent in Canada in the Canadian Business Press. Pettit has run his own media consultancy and comes from outside the traditional b-to-b publishing sector. He was vice president of

Marketing publisher has moved to ad agency to become "content editor"

Marketing magazine reports that the Toronto ad agency Capital C Communications has hired the magazine's former publisher and editor-in-chief Christopher Loudon (right) as its "content editor". What it apparently means in that Loudon will build a content group that will develop "social objects" and "anything that gives someone the opportunity to say 'I just read this, saw this, did you hear

New team at Chatelaine reminiscent of the late Wish

After a raft of dismissals across the editorial team, Chatelaine's editor Jane Francisco has gathered some familiar faces around her, including several senior people from the editorial team at the late Wish magazine (St. Joseph Media). Francisco was the editor of Wish when it was folded and moved to Style at Home last June, then jumped to Chatelaine in November.  

Laurie Jennings, who was Wish's

Alberta Venture taps Edmonton Journal writer as new editor

Alberta Venture magazine, the business monthly, has appointed Paul Marck as its editor effective with the magazine's April 2010 issue. Marck had spent two decades at the Edmonton Journal, half of that time as a business writer before accepting the position. He succeeds Michael McCullough, who is returning to his hometown of Vancouver."To me, Alberta is an exciting, vibrant province with many

Peter C. Newman appointed visiting professor at Ryerson journalism and business schools

Peter C. Newman, whose career as a magazine and newspaper editor-in-chief (Maclean's and Toronto Star) is only overshadowed by his output of some 24 books about Canadian politics and business, has been appointed the visiting professor of distinction at the Ted Rogers school of management and the school of journalism at Ryerson University."In the school of journalism," said Newman in a release, "