http://www.mastheadonline.com/rss/news.php MastheadOnline RSS en-us Wed, 16 May 2012 22:34:58 EDT Wed, 16 May 2012 22:27:06 EST http://www.mastheadonline.com circulation@masthead.ca webmaster@northisland.ca http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120516908.shtml Wed, 16 May 2012 21:34:39 EST ABC Interactive (ABCi) is working with Adobe to audit metrics provided by Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite, the audit board has announced. Adobe Publishing Suite is a set of hosted services and viewer technologies that enable publishers to create, distribute and monetize digital publications and magazines on tablet devices and smartphones. The news, along with the next generation of the Digital Publishing Suite, was unveiled at Adobe’s annual Digital Publishing Summit in New York earlier this week. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120515800.shtml Jeff Hayward Tue, 15 May 2012 21:02:48 EST The decision to align the Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) and National Magazine Awards (NMA) has ruffled some feathers in the B2B publishing world, but organizers say it was a move to cut costs in the face of shrinking financial support from the government. The National Magazine Awards, traditionally held on a Friday night during the MagNet conference, this year was moved to Thursday (June 7) to share an evening with the KRW crowd. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120511597.shtml Fri, 11 May 2012 19:53:59 EST Weddingbells.ca, the website extension of Wedding Bells magazine and a property of St. Joseph Media, will live stream the Pronovias Fashion Show from Barcelona, Spain today at 2:15 p.m. eastern time. This is the first time that Weddingbells.ca has hosted a live fashion show on its site.   http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120509885.shtml Wed, 9 May 2012 22:16:23 EST Natalie Larivière, President of TC Media, is stepping down from her position to pursue "new professional challenges", said the company. She will officially be gone from her post by June 29, while she will work with the team periodically over the summer to "ensure the smooth transition of certain projects". François Olivier, President and CEO of Transcontinental, will take over as interim head of TC Media. Natalie Lariviere http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120507713.shtml Mon, 7 May 2012 21:02:49 EST An Edmonton literary and visual arts-focused magazine is shutting down, and is hosting a fundraiser this month to pay its closing expenses. Other Voices, a twice-yearly publication, is calling it quits partly due to changes in federal arts funding, said managing editor Bobbi Beatty.   http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120507630.shtml Mon, 7 May 2012 16:43:24 EST The gala for the Atlantic Journalism Awards was held on Saturday, and here's who accepted awards in magazine categories: http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120504830.shtml Fri, 4 May 2012 16:12:04 EST Continuing the exciting awards announcement season, here are some of the finalists for the 30th annual Western Magazine Awards:   http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120503712.shtml Thu, 3 May 2012 15:33:41 EST The Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) nominations for excellence in business magazines have been released. Magazine of the year finalists include Alberta Oil, Marketing, and Retail News, while website of the year nominations go to CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, finance-investissement.com, and UniversityAffairs.ca. Leading the pack in total nominations was CAmagazine with 14 total nominations, followed by Marketing with 12. Les Affaires garnered 11 nods.   http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120503710.shtml Fri, 4 May 2012 17:26:55 EST Canada’s premier awards show for online and digital publishers is gearing up for its fourth year. Produced by Masthead, we’re pleased to announce several enhancements to the Canadian Online Publishing Awards based on feedback from award participants. (Thanks to everyone who answered our survey!)   http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120502885.shtml Wed, 2 May 2012 21:31:01 EST THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED: Rogers Media is shutting down eight of its websites, including the popular SweetSpot.ca and Branchez-vous.com.  An internal Rogers communication was sent anonymously to Masthead on Wednesday, noting sites on the chopping block include branchez-vous.com, canadianparents.com, ciné-horaire.com, lecinema.ca, matin.qc.ca, showbizz.net, sweetspot.ca, and sweetspotqc.ca. SweetSpot.ca http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120501868.shtml Wed, 2 May 2012 09:45:09 EST Canada Post suffered its first financial loss in 2011 after 16 straight years of profitability, according to its annual report. The labour disruption last year was blamed as a major factor, while the company reports transaction and publication mail volumes including magazines are sliding and the company is focusing its efforts on its "digital delivery network". http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120501682.shtml Tue, 1 May 2012 17:21:26 EST The 2011 National Magazine Awards nominations have been announced, and The Walrus leads the pack with 34 nominations. The Walrus said this is the sixth straight year it has paced the field with NMA nominations, with nods in the written, online, visual and integrated categories. The Walrus won 2006 Magazine of the Year in the awards, and since its inception the magazine said it has won 53 golds, 27 silvers, and 186 honourable mentions at the annual awards. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120430800.shtml Jeff Hayward Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:43:51 EST For magazine publishers to pull in advertisers, they need great ideas, said the vice president of corporate sales for Rogers Publishing during the first day of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) in Toronto on Friday. Coming up with great ideas may be easier said than done, but Brandon Kirk showed off at least one campaign he thinks fits that mold. Rogers (Sportsnet) devised a solution to support Toyota's "Brilliant Idea" imagery in ads, which incorporate an image of a lightbulb. The result was the "smart integration" of a lightbulb image with a pull quote in an editorial piece. "I don't think it's crossing any lines," he said of aligning editorial and ads. From left is Brenda Bookbinder, Brandon Kirk, Lynn Chambers, and Martin White http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120424128.shtml Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:56:22 EST TORONTO—Responsive web design seems like a time saver because you design your site once and it adapts to all devices — desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone. Sounds great, but it's not that simple, said speaker Stacey Mulcahy at FITC Toronto, the design and technology festival, on April 24. "The tenets of responsive design sound easy, but it's actually quite hard to test everything on all those devices," said Mulcahy, senior developer at Brooklyn, NY-based digital agency Big Spaceship. Her talk was titled "The Responsible Response to Responsive Design." http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2012/20120424884.shtml Mike Woodward Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:18:35 EST The launch of The Tyee Builder program sees the independent awarding-winning magazine The Tyee turn to readers in a drive to increase funding.    Tyee is asking readers for donations ranging from $5 - $100 a month. All contributions will go towards solely producing more editorial content explained Tyee Builder project manager Shannon Smart.    "We're asking readers if they'd like to sign up sort of as an optional subscription that would help us boost our monthly editorial budget and allow us to assign more stories, hire more freelancers, and basically publish a larger volume of the award-winning journalism that we publish now," she said.