Reader's Digest no longer a public company

With the announcement Friday that it has completed its US$1.6 billion dollar acquisition of Reader's Digest Association (RDA), Ripplewood Holdings marks the end of 17 years as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. The purchase of RDA by the private investment group is indicative of a recent trend toward private ownership at large media companies.Effective immediately, RDA

Accounting magazine provides fascinating facts

Factoids you wouldn't find unless you read a magazine that's not usually on your radar. In this case, CA magazine, the official publication of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants:According to an Expedia.ca and Ipsos Reid, 24% of employed Canadians often don’t take all their vacation days, resulting in a communal $5.1 billion handback to employers. Financial professionals ranked 7th

Where are the women magazine writers? asks Mallick

That buzz saw that the editor of Harper's walked into was Heather Mallick. The columnist, late of the Globe and Mail and for some time now writing for CBC.ca, essentially shreds him* for misogyny, condescension and being boring."...he is a Tennessee-educated insular boor who has made this well-intentioned American magazine even more boring than it used to be, which is a trick and a half. Read it

Doris Anderson dead at 85

A giant among Canadian magazine editors, Doris Anderson, has died at the age of 85. A long obituary in the Globe and Mail, well worth reading, details the life of this whiskey-voiced woman who took Chatelaine magazine by the scruff of the neck and and for more than 20 years turned it into a platform for feminism, women's rights and progressive causes. She also made Maclean Hunter a lot of money

MagNet site live; so's Mags U

Registrations are now available online for MagNet: Canada's Magazine Conference, being put on by Magazines Canada, the Circulation Marketing Association of Canada, the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) and the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) June 13 to 15 at 89 Chestnut Street in downtown TorontoOnline registration is also available for the rival conference, Magazines

Calgary gay title Outlooks celebrates 10th anniversary

Outlooks magazine, a national monthly gay and lesbian magazine published out of Calgary, is celebrating its 10th anniversary issue; the March anniversary issue is being distributed today."The magazine publishing industry is considered a risky business under the best of circumstances and many new publications do not survive in the long term," said Outlooks founder and publisher Roy Heale about the

Health and fitness mags not necessarily giving best nutrition information

Some U.S. magazines that you'd expect would be excellent sources of health and nutrition information aren't, according to a story in MediaDaily News. And some unlikely popular lifestyle publications are more reliable on the subject.The American Council on Science and Health produced a ranking of magazines based on the accuracy and relevance of their nutritional information, measured by provision