Journalism Topic
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Magazine
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50 top (foreign) magazines
Unfortunately, Canadian magazine stands are crammed with American titles, forcing out quality domesitc books. But, if you have to buy foreign titles, the Chicago Tribune has compiled a list of its favourite fifty magazines. Wired top’s the list, no doubt helped by its surging ad revenue. -
New designs for the Walrus and the W3C validator
The Walrus almost managed to turn an oops into a marketing ploy when one of its newsletters yesterday pointed readers to the development site. After realizing what happened the magazine quickly sent out an explanation (in fact, it was sent twice): -
National Magazine Award finalists
The National Magazine Award finalists have been announced, and once again, Toronto Life leads the pack with 25 nominations. The Walrus is seventh, with 11 nominations, well behind Toro (17), and just ahead of Maclean’s with its meagre eight nominations (as a point of comparison, its French sister, L’actualité is second with 23 nominations) -
Mr. Walrus
MediaBistro profiles Mr. Walrus, Ken Alexander. Not a lot of new news for Canadian magazine junkies, but it is interesting to read an American publication parsing the idea of a Canadian magazine -
Magazines in Canada
Wondering how Canada’s magazines are doing? The Montreal Gazette has nice overview of the magazine industry (thanks again, Steph). -
Web award deadlines; Elm Street falls
Looks like another tough year for the Webby’s. Last year, as you may recall, they cancelled the gala awards party; this year they’re extending the deadline for entries. -
Fixing Acrobat Reader; Peer Review; ThrashBox; subheads;
Been having problems with how slow Acrobat Reader 6 is? Try re-organizing the program’s files. -
The Walrus launches, the Red Herring relaunches; Google News creator
The Walrus has launched (look for a longer rant on this, probably later today) — haven’t seen a copy yet, but I have subscribed — and the buzz is good. -
CBC listenership; Frank’s angel; climate data online
News that the CBC is now the third-most listened to radio station in Canada is a good-news/bad-news scenario: while it’s good that more people are listening to my favourite media outlet, most of the listeners are older. (The CBC is trying to attract younger listeners, but the results recent changes may not have shown up in this survey.) -
Netscape 7.1, Mozilla 1.4 released; media catfight
Blogger still won’t publish my posts…not happy. -
Maclean’s redesign; Amazon.ca arrives
The Maclean’s redesign is gorgeous. Not only does it seem to have a strong editorial sense of itself — which feels like a return to its prime days in the ’60s — but visually its a crisp, easy to read design thanks in a large part to Ross Macdonald’s body typeface, “Maclean’s Text,” the first designed for a Canadian magazines. -
Wired vs. Shift; rich media
Lynn Crosbie’s latest Globe column is a nice, lay-person’s introduction to two magazines that seemingly cover the same topics—Wired> and Shift. -
The buzz on Shift.com
With the dearth of original, Canadian content online, I have to remind myself to go to Shift.com more—after all, I’m now receiving its email newsletters. -
Saturday Night, alive
The National Post is reporting that the paper’s former weekend insert (and Canadian institution), Saturday Night will return from the dead. The magazine will publish on a more rational scehdule of six times a year, thanks to a new deal reached by CanWest and Multi-Vision Publishing Inc. -
Canadian magazines hurting
Masthead Online is reporting on a rumoured postal hike that could be a knock-out blow to an already dizzy magazine industry in Canada. -
Saturday Night’s over
A friend living in New York sent an email this weekend capturing the strength of the human spirit and urging us all to be compassionate and humane. As the days grow into weeks and months, please remember we are all in this together. But at some point life has to return to some degree of normalcy… -
Shift relaunches
Shift relaunched (along with its print sibling) last week, and I've just now checked it out, unfortunately. -
The New Yorker finally goes online
Commentary on The New Yorker magazine's long absent Web presence.