Why staffers at Condé Nast have good reason to worry

People are magazines' most important asset and their most expensive element, which is why there has been significant nervousness in the hallways of Condé Nast (Vogue, New Yorker, W, GQ, Self, Glamour, Brides, Gourmet, Wired, Vanity Fair etc. etc.) The company, which publishes among the most prestigious magazines around, last summer brought in the consultants, McKinsey and Company, to nose around

Finalists named in Canadian Online Publishing Awards

The 75 finalists in each of 10 categories in two divisions have been announced in the first annual Canadian Online Publishing Awards, produced by MastheadOnline. Among magazines in the consumer, custom, religious, public association category:Overall best magazine websiteBC Business OnlineCanadian LivingGreen LivingHouseandhome.comThe Hockey NewsThe United Church ObserverTorontolife.comUp Here

Parsing Ontario's legal aid boycott

This Magazine's blog has published a post by Kim Hart Macneill about the Ontario legal aid boycott that told me some things I didn't know, or may have missed elsewhere. One was making the comparison between the 15% fee increase that legal aid had received over the past 22 years and the fact that Crown attorneys have received a 57% wage increase in the past 10 years. Another was the huge number of

Global Brief magazine finds new home, renewed hope

The reports of the death of Global Brief magazine were exaggerated, it seems. The world affairs magazine's very first issue was caught up in a welter of rumour when, right after it published, kabillionaire Jim Balsillie pulled the plug on it.An article in the Globe and Mail suggested that the Canadian International Council, which Balsillie chairs, was startled by the cost of producing the lavish

Those staffers? They'll be gone by Christmas

The brutality of the magazine business these days is evidenced by the way in which BusinessWeek staff found out about massive layoffs -- they read about it in a story in the New York Times, based on an offering memorandum from the magazine's owner McGraw-Hill to potential buyers. According to a post on the Silicon Valley Insider, Stephanie Clifford of the Times got her hands on the memo from

Maclean's AD Dewairy takes over Canadian Business, MoneySense & Profit

The recent consolidation of management and staff dismissals at Rogers Publishing's news and business consumer group proceeds apace, as Christine Dewairy, the art director of Maclean's, takes over responsibility for Canadian Business, MoneySense and Profit magazines. This means the four publications share one publisher and one art director. According to a story in Mastheadonline, Dewairy will do

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On his pan in Santa Monica a couple of years ago.