New crop whines from universities that boycotted Maclean's

Now that's rich! The president of Carleton University, one of the original 11 which refused to provide up-to-date data to Maclean's magazines' university issue, now criticizes the magazine for using year-old data. About half of Canada's universities effectively boycotted the rankings and used various strategems to thwart Maclean's's freedom-of-information requests for current data.David Atkinson,

Ad pages in big Canadian consumer magazines jump 6.5% in third quarter

Canada's largest consumer magazines saw the number of ad pages they sold jump 6.5% in the third quarter, compared to the same quarter a year ago, according the Leading National Advertisers data reported by mastheadonline (sub requ'd).

Cosmo India is a heavyweight in more ways than one

The October issue of Cosmopolitan in India weighs almost five pounds and has 1,016 pages. There's grist for your next cocktail party chat. According to a story on the Time.com website, publishing is booming in the country, with 203 million people reading a newspaper every day and new magazines being launched every day. "It's a sunrise moment for Indian publishing," says Mala Sekhri, publishing

Small literary and cultural mags to compete for share of additional funding

Good news for small literary and cultural publications, and possibly to contributors, from the Canada Council for the Arts. Next week (November 9) it will unveil the detailed application process and guidelines to allow it to distributed supplementary payments to arts organizations and individuals. This is made possible by an additional $50 million in increased appropriation announced last spring

Little magazines we like: Penguin Eggs

Even the great and mighty oak was once a nut like me...or lyrics to that effect. I thought I'd bring to the attention of small magazines out there that innovation is a matter as much of will as resources. The example I would give is Penguin Eggs, the quarterly folk and world music magazine published out of Edmonton.There are very few magazines of its size that offer so easy a way for people to

Income trust rule changes will affect magazines

No matter what happens on the financial markets this morning as a result of the government's surprise decision on income trusts (taking away much of their tax advantages) it will impact the magazine industry. As but two examples (some readers may suggest others), consider Rogers Media, which had recently become a partner with Aeroplan, the Air Canada points system, an income trust that was

Universities find subtle and not so subtle ways to thwart Maclean's requests for info

Universities across Canada employed a range of strategems to thwart Maclean's magazine's request for data under freedom of information legislation, according to a story carried by CanWest News Services. This is latest chapter in the struggle between Maclean's and the universities who complain about the methodology in the long-running "universities issue". See previous posts here and here. About