Expat Canadian Tyler Brûlé named editor of the year by Ad Age

Wallpaper and Monocle magazine founder Tyler Brûlé has been named editor of the year by Ad Agemagazine. The magazine said "it comes as no surprise that he remains perhaps the most devoted and adventurous advocate of 'magazine-ness' working today." Brûlé moved to Britain in 1989 and launched Wallpaper in 1996 and Monocle in 2007. He is lauded for his insistence on creating substantial, luxurious

The Atlantic opens its editing room to its readers

Readers of The Atlantic Wire, the very successful online arm of The Atlantic magazine, are being invited to pitch stories and influence the editing process in an open comments thread, according to a story on Mashable, which quotes editor Gabriel Snyder
“As with many web news operations, The Atlantic Wire is mostly edited via terse messages in a group chat room. Editors and writers spend the day

The case for editors and editing, in case one needs to be made

I've just come across an article, written originally for the blog Writing for Digital and reprinted by Digital Book World, in which James Mathewson, editor in chief of ibm.com shows pretty conclusively the value of good editors, in this case working on online marketing materials.Matthewson says that editors are sometimes seen as an extra, and unnecessary, step getting in the way of publishing on

New EIC at Elle Canada promises openness and approachability

The new editor-in-chief of Elle Canada, Noreen Flanagan, has submitted to an interview with the Globe and Mail for its Saturday edition (up now on the web) in which she goes to some lengths to explain how her editorial management approach will differ substantially from that of her recently turfed predecessor, Rita Silvan. The leitmotif of the article is access and openness (which not so subtly

Flare fashionista Lisa Tant's busy, busy life

Lisa Tant, the editor-in-chief of Flare, the fashion magazine from Rogers, was home for dinner only 5 times last month. This, among other things, we learn from her blog posting about her  "typical day", which isn't. She compares herself to her father, who worked to the clock and hated his job. 
I’m out a minimum of three nights a week attending everything from new product launches to fashion

Adventures in long-form magazine editing

J-source has adapted and re-published an excellent article on long-form magazine editing, originally written last year by Bill Reynolds for Literary Journalism, the newsletter of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. Reynolds is head of the magazine stream at Ryerson University. It's relatively unusual for such reflective writing about the craft, based on real stories and

Editor out at Calgary Inc.

Christina Reynolds, the editor of the business magazine Calgary Inc. is no longer with the company. No reason was given for her departure.The magazine has a claimed readership of 120,000 and total distribution of 32,000, including 4,000 distributed through the Globe and Mail. Most of the circulation (87%) is controlled, with about 2,500 paid subscribers.

Passing the Beaver hat

Effective with its August/September issue, The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine will have a new editor. Mark Reid was most recently the assistant news editor at CanWest News Service in Winnipeg.A graduate of both Dalhousie University and the University of King's College, Reid has worked as a journalist and editor in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Manitoba. He oversaw the development

Tina Brown gets her due

Interesting longish post on the blog Gawker making the case that much of the good at David Remnick's New Yorker magazine is due to the superlative hires made by his predecessors, most particularly Tina Brown. Fascinating as such a parsing of the comings and goings can be for magazine junkies, even more fascinating is the sheer volume of talent that has flushed in and out of this iconic title in

A world of differences between editors and freelancers

Editors and freelancers can have very different perspectives. Recently there were a number of responses to the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers list about the way editors treat writers. Here's some of what was said by some freelancers and some editors:I know every editor is overworked, but why isn’t it a high priority to deal in a timely fashion with queries – from the people who fill your