Chris Buck to speak at MagNet conference

The photographer has no obligation to the subject, except not to lie. That's Chris Buck speaking, the bi-coastal (New York, Los Angeles) photographer who is to be this year's international speaker at MagNet, the magazine conference to be held June 13 to 15 in Toronto.Buck, a Canadian expatriate who made good shooting celebrities, grew up in Etobicoke and took photography at Ryerson

Ad-edit guidelines now have magazine industry seal of approval

The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) a number of years ago drew up a set of guidelines for the relationship between advertising and editorial pages in Canadian magazines. It was a wonderful initiative by a relatively small organization.In an effort to have an even broader industry consensus, a panel of people from the editorial, advertising and publishing sides have spent the past year

Prose, and everything else, is purple as Open magazine debuts

It gives a whole new meaning to purple prose; the very recent launch of a new magazine called Open which has printed the entire magazine in shades of purple and apparently intends to publish each issue of the quarterly magazine in a theme colour. (Winter's colour is to be white, apparently; would it be quibbling to point out that white is not a colour?)The tagline is [Open] "...to all

Douglas Knight named president of St. Joseph

Douglas Knight, the former publisher of the Financial Post (1992-97) and the Financial Post magazine (1990-92), has been appointed to replace Donna Clark as president of St. Joseph Media. Knight was also publisher and CEO of the Toronto Sun (1997-2000).The announcement comes within days of the departure of Ms Clark, who had been president for just 14 months.A release from St. Joseph says that

Toronto Star media critic Zerbisias has stopped blogging

Antonia Zerbisias, the Toronto Star media critic, set a pace in blogging that apparently couldn't be sustained and has now given it up. Since August Zerbisias (to use her words) "left the building" and hasn't blogged since, except to post one item on the death of her former colleague Sid Adilman. She was among the most prolific and wide-ranging of Star bloggers, often writing more on a subject

Shameless magazine wants to pass the torch

The forthcoming Fall/Winter issue of Shameless, the spunky Toronto-based magazine for teens and young women, will contain a letter from the editors saying that they want to find someone else to take charge of the magazine.Like with many small, specialty magazines in Canada, while publishing it can be a joy, it can also be very hard work, given that so much of your unpaid effort has to go into

Stage left -- Camp BCAMP to take place January 19 to 21

Camp BCAMP, the annual conference for British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers, will be headlined by Sara Angel, the editor-in-chief of Chatelaine. The keynote address, sponsored by Indas Limited, takes place on Friday January 19, with various panels and sessions taking place on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21st.The whole event takes place at Dunsmuir Lodge in Sidney. For further