Manitoba magazines conference and Maggie Awards set for April 28

The Manitoba Magazine Publishers' Association (MMPA) annual conference and 3rd annual Maggie Awards, to be held at the Inn at the Forks in Winnipeg, April 28. For further details, go to:  http://www.manitobamagazines.ca/.

A bunch of deadlines: Magawards; BC coastal conference; Alberta achievement and showcase

Deadlines loom for magazine conferences and awards programs:Conference on the Coast -- Magazine Association of BC annual weekend-long professional development (what used to be called Camp BCAMP) is January 28 to 30 at Tigh-Na-Mara Seaside Spa Resort & Conference Centre,  Parksville, BC. Deadline to register is January 24. It features 10 sessions and a keynote address by Terry Sellwood of Quarto

Making Media Public conference to be held May 6 to 8 at Ryerson and York

Nicole Cohen, a former co-founder and co-editor of Shameless magazine, tells us that she is helping to organize Making Media Public, a three-day conference at Ryerson University and York University. The kickoff will be a roundtable discussion (free admission) called "The Trouble With Media" on Thursday, May 6 at Ryerson. The roundtable is at 245 Church Street, Room LG-11 (George Vari Engineering

CNN anchor John Roberts to give keynote at Atlantic Journalism Awards

The Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJA) are getting both media glamour (and great teeth) with their guest speaker at this year's awards: John Roberts of CNN's flagship morning program American Morning. The 29th Atlantic Journalism Awards gala will be presented at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, on Saturday, May 8, 2010. Based in New York,  Roberts was a well-known Canadian broadcaster and

Wordstock explores tools for a new universe

The annual Wordstock conference, sponsored by the Ryerson Journalism Alumni Association, is on Saturday October 3 in Toronto, with the theme "Journalism tools in the new universe."Wordstock is about broadly-based journalism (newspapers and other media), not just magazines, but this year's sessions are bound to be of interest to anyone who writes, edits and publishes. And a couple of well known

Canadian Business Press buys the Magazine University name

Canadian Business Press (CBP), the service and lobbying group for many of Canada's trade publications has purchased the rights to the name Magazines University from North Island Publishing along with an associated web property. The deal means that CBP will continue running the annual Mags U event (and, possibly some sort of trade show) that had previously been co-produced with North Island's

International Reading Association invades Toronto

A major event in the literacy world is the annual conference of the International Reading Association, this year being held in Toronto (Monday 14th through Thursday 17th at the Metro Convention Centre). There is a lineup of inspiring speakers and workshops too long to list here, but which can be found at the association's conference website. Canadian non-members can attend for C$230 a day or C

Rep fret about conference choice

It was probably inevitable that criticism would break into the open about there being two magazine industry conferences in Toronto within a 10-day period this June. From the estimable (but slightly cranky) Reptile (an anonymous ad rep) comes a more-or-less tongue-in-cheek advance "scorecard" of the two events. Reptile like the Mags U shield logo, hates MagNet's reverse type, etc. etc. In a very

The healthy workplace and the healthy subscriber base

Your Workplace magazine is holding a major conference on healthy workplaces and, not coincidentally, giving interested conference goers a very good reason to become subscribers. A subscriber gets a $55 discount off the $325 cost of the day-long conference, which is being held in Kingston on April 13 and the Kingston Banquet and Conference Centre. A normal subscription costs $45.50 a year.The