Time and Newsweek, old adversaries with a common challenge

The move upstairs for Mark Whitaker, editor of Newsweek magazine for nearly eight years and succession by his deputy and longtime presumptive heir, Jon Meacham, 37 are part of the adjustment that both Newsweek and its crosstown rival Time magazine are going through, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. They are profitable, but they share a problem. "Both magazines share a common

Salewicz is new ROB magazine editor

The Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine has a new editor, promoted from within (replacing Laas Turnbull, who is now executive vice-president at Brunico): Gary Salewicz has been deputy editor since February 2005, having previously been senior editor at Toronto Life and working at Canadian Art and Canadian Geographic. He's a native of Montreal. Globe editor Edward Greenspon described

Dose's second life online

Dose, the daily magazine that had a short life in print (just a year) at CanWest MediaWorks, but which promised to come back as an online publication, has kept its promise. Media in Canada reports:"The marketing campaign for Dose.ca, launched this week, kicked off with a medical bracelet cover wrap on the September issue of Vice magazine and a reference to the slogan "What didn't kill us, made us

Fun with headlines

We are partial to clever display writing (and suckers for puns and other plays on words), so this week's prize for most wordplay on a single story has to go to Saltscapes in its September-October issue.The Halifax-based magazine has an eye-catching skybar "popcorn stuffed turkey" which is bound to make people turn inside. When they get there, the regular food column, Marie's Menu, has the

But I thought YOU had the money!

"We've been much drunker than this, but the party was so nice that we were lulled into a false sense of security. Everybody was wearing jackets; there was classical music.We didn't think anyone was going to steal our money."-- Editor Keith Gessen of the New York literary magazine n+1, explaining how, sometime during or after a successful fundraiser, somebody absconded with the $3,000 proceeds. (

Verified? Will advertisers say "So what?"

For years, the almighty nature of "paid" circulation, particularly among major U.S. magazines was somewhat inflated by things that counted as paid, but weren't; things like "public place copies" which were neither sponsored nor paid, but found in doctor's offices and places like that. Well, last year, the Audit Bureau of Circulations decreed it would no longer allow such copies to be called "paid

Toronto Star to launch free dowloadable mini-paper in September

The Toronto Star is going to produce a daily afternoon mini-paper available as a dowloadable pdf, following the lead of several European papers, including the Guardian's G24 and the Financial Times. This, according to a story in Media Post. The 8- to 12-page publication will be available at 3:30 every afternoon and can be printed, in colour if available, on standard 81/2 x 11 paper. The launch is