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27 November 2023,     OTTAWA

Tax Measures To Support Journalism

 

Advisory Board on Eligibility for Journalism Tax Measures
Advisory Board on Eligibility for Journalism Tax Measures
Are you passionate about Canadian journalism? Do you have experience in the journalism industry? The Government of Canada is still accepting applications for new members for the Independent Advisory Board on Eligibility for Journalism Tax Measures (Advisory Board). A strong and independent Canadian news industry is crucial to a well-functioning democracy. Canadians rely on credible journalism for accurate and timely news that allows them to make informed decisions.

20 November 2023,     TORONTO

Magazines Canada New Membership & Communications Manager

 

Rebecca Rosenbaum Membership & Communications Manager
Rebecca Rosenbaum Membership & Communications Manager
Magazines Canada has appointed Rebecca Rosenblum as the new Membership & Communications Manager. She will be developing membership acquisition, onboarding and member management. Rebecca Rosenblum has many years of experience in the publishing world, most recently working with an academic/grassroots journal and a feminist press. She's also worked on publications for everyone from pre-kindergarteners to paleontologists, written several books and many stories and articles of her own,and once had a blog post linked by the New Yorker blog. Rebecca's first magazine subscription was Penny Power, the short-lived children's offshot of Consumer Reports.

20 November 2023,    

Soap Opera Digest Closes Print Edition

Published weekly for almost 50 years
Published weekly for almost 50 years
 The weekly print edition of Soap Opera Digest is closing after five decades. Staff have been told  of the decision.A360Media, the company that owns the brand, confirmed that the weekly edition is being discontinued. The company plans to continue publishing special print issues of Soap Opera Digest four times per year. Soap Opera Digest was first launched in 1975. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought the publication in 1989 then sold it

20 November 2023,    

Study Finds Third Of Amazon Book Reviews Are Fake.

 

The most untrustworthy Amazon reviews
The most untrustworthy Amazon reviews
Book reviews are the most untrustworthy on Amazon, Scams.info has reveal. Almost 2 in 5 (37.2%) book ratings are fraudulent, the most of any product category. After analysing Amazon’s bestsellers, the experts uncovered that for 59% of products, over 40% of ratings were fake. For 1 in 20 books, over 90% of ratings were illegitimate.Methodology used was 1. 20 popular categories on Amazon.co.uk were chosen for analysis to determine which had the most fake reviews.2.

20 November 2023,     OTTAWA ,

Canadian Magazine Coalition Survey

 

 
The Canadian Magazine Coalition, comprising MagsBC, Association québécoise des éditeurs de magazines (AQEM), Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) and Magazines Canada, is advocating on behalf of Canadian magazine publishers on a number of issues including Bill C-18 and ongoing investment in the magazine sector. They are conducting a survey to identify the collective reach of their member publications.

14 November 2023,     DAYTON, NEVADA

FlightCheck Now Supports InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop

 

Preflight for Adobe CC 2024
Preflight for Adobe CC 2024
Markzware,announced FlightCheck 2024 with Adobe Creative Cloud 2024 application support to preflight InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop native file types. FlightCheck does not require external applications or plug-ins to process documents created in these Adobe CC 2024 versions or many other file formats. Preview, Preflight, Report & Package PDF & DTP Files.FlightCheck is a stand-alone preflight application for macOS to preview, preflight, report, and package desktop publishing files, such as .pdf, .qxp, or .indd.

9 November 2023,     OTTAWA

Magazine On The Hill

 

Magazines on the Hill Breakfast meeting with  Delegation
Magazines on the Hill Breakfast meeting with Delegation
Magazines on the Hill represented the Magazine Media Industry at a breakfast meeting with the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH). It was a great opportunity for them to give PCH updates on the successes and challenges the industry has gone through post pandemic. They discussed how Bill C-18 and C-11 will impact various publishers in the industry.They advocated to have further talks about potentially having Special Measures for Journalism become a permanent part of the Canadian Periodical Fund.

9 November 2023,     SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

PDF CELEBRATES 30 YEARS

30 years: PDF changed the print industry
30 years: PDF changed the print industry
 The year 1993 also saw the launch of HTML hyper text mark-up language, and together the two developments have formed the bedrock of the communication world we know today. PDF enabled documents to be created with text and images, and to be locked or open, independent of application software, hardware or operating system. Each PDF has a complete description of a fixed layout flat document.Adobe’s PDF portable document format launch onto an unsuspecting world at the same time the internet emerged. Ironically,

15 September 2023,     OTTAWA

Carleton University establishes new journalism scholarship

 

Shireen Abu Akleh
Shireen Abu Akleh
Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communications has established the Shireen Abu Akleh Emerging Reporter Award in Social Justice Journalism. This award seeks to perpetuate her dedication to truth-telling and support the next generation of reporters committed to the cause, according to the school.

            Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in May 2022 at the age of 51 while reporting for Al Jazeera at the entrance to Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank.

15 September 2023,     OTTAWA

Regulations for Online News Act released

 

 
The Federal government has released the draft regulations for the Online News Act, which received Royal Assent at the end of June.

            Among other things, the regulations spell out how the criteria that digital platforms must follow to determine if the act applies to them and provide details as to what criteria must be considered if an agreement between the tech giants and news organization satisfies the requirement of the act.

             The regulations will be open for 30 days for public consultation. The act will come into force in December of this year.

            The regulations are available here.

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