Great minds think alike....hmmm

When it was announced by Martha Stewart Omnimedia that it was going to launch a new magazine called Blueprint for young people (principally women) starting out in their first homes, there was head-scratching at Time Inc., which was also considering a proposal for a magazine for...well, you guessed it, a magazine called...Blueprint. Seems that former staffers at Real Simple (part of the Time Inc.

Squid and The Whale Q&A

Senior Editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews writer/director Noah Baumbach.

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50 Plus reports latest financials

The troubled Fifty Plus magazine has announced its first quarter results, for the period ended September 30.Net income for the quarter was $56,919 compared to net income of $36,233 for the comparable quarter last year.Revenues were up $13,986 for the quarter to $210,786 including increased advertising revenues of $23,044. Expenses were down about 4% for the quarter, to $153,867 compared to

New mag for Toronto black community

A new quarterly magazine celebrating the power, lifestyle, interests and influence of black Canadians, Continental African and Carribbean communities in Canada has begun distributing in Toronto. It's called Sway. It's a joint venture of Chioma Productions and Torstar's Metroland Printing and Publishing, which is handling distribution of the 50,000 initial copies. Mostly it is distributed free in

Media Digest download available

The 2005-06 Media Digest from the Canadian Media Directors Council is now available for download in pdf format and for browsing online. It's a useful reference work for current and historical information on magazines and competing media as well as providing some summary data on markets across the country.

Rogers says you had me at Hello!

Rogers Media will be launching a branch plant version of the celebrity title Hello! next fall. It will be a Canadianized version (made so by an editorial staff of 10 about to be hired) with about 60% of the content shared with its international editions. Hello! started in Spain as Hola! and is a huge seller in Great Britain. The UK edition, which sells about 7,000 copies on Canadian newsstands,

Quill & Quire and WHERE

Alilson Jones, the Publisher of Quill & Quire (the library and book industry trade magazine) is taking on new responsibilities as Business Development Director for WHERE Canada, the stable of tourism magazines at St. Joseph Media. To do the new job, she will be giving up sales responsibilities at Quill & Quire.WHERE Canada's various regional arms (Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Calgary) plus