Departing Masthead editor says Maclean's has become Canada's most interesting magazine

In what is essentially his swan song as editor of Mastheadonline (he leaves his post on Friday 4th to go to teacher's college), Marco Ursi has written a hymn of praise to Maclean's magazine and its publisher/editor Ken Whyte. His occasional "From the Editor's Desk" column says Maclean's has become Canada's most interesting magazine and points out that Whyte-driven covers have built up weekly

RDA sold its World Almanac division

In one of the things it tidied up just before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, Reader's Digest Association sold its World Almanac and Book of Facts to New York-based Infobase Publishing. According to a story in Folio:, As part of the transaction, Infobase acquired The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for Kids and The World Almanac Book of Records. Earlier

Border Crossings magazine launches new size, new face

Border Crossings magazine has launched its September issue with a new, larger format and a new typeface . The Winnipeg-based magazine has increased in size to 9 x 11.75", with the larger size allowing even more latitude for the visuals that the arts magazine is well-known for. The new-look magazine is on the newsstands now. The new look will be celebrated with a launch party at McNally Robinson

Wallow in covers with searchable site

A friend has pointed us to a fun and fascinating resource -- a site called Cover Browser, that was created in 2006 and has more than 450,000 searchable covers of comic books, pulp magazines and magazine covers for mavens to explore.It's fun regardless of whether you see them as historical artifacts or reference for magazine design or just general interest. Even more amazing, the searchability is

Deadline looms for lunatic writers to enter 3-Day Novel Contest

There's only four more days to register to spend your Labour Day weekend madly hammering out a novel. Paid registration f0r the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest must be in the mail by Friday, September 4 (along with the $50 entry fee). Participants in Vancouver can drop off entries up until 7 p.m. Then hundreds of writers all over the world will begin writing their novels, which

Controversial Canadian-made ad nominated for Creative Media Awards

Starcom MediaVest Group has received four nominations for its media work with clients Kraft Canada and Proctor and Gamble in the 2009 Creative Media Awards, sponsored by MediaPost Communications. One of these nominations was for controversial ad that some felt breached industry ad:editorial guidelines. The ad, for Kraft's Tassimo coffee machine, appeared in Style at Home magazine last

Canada Style bonus issue to be published by Flare

To help celebrate its 30th anniversary year, Flare magazine has announced it is publishing a bonus "portrait" issue called Canada Style -- featuring fashion and beauty trendsetters and 30 influential and inspiring Canadian women. The 64-page bonus issue has a single sponsor, P & G Beauty (Pantene, Olay, CoverGirl and Clairol etc.) , and will be polybagged with Flare's October issue on newsstands