Canadian Publishing Industry News
9 February 2025,     CALGARY, ALBERTA

Alberta Magazine Awards Looking For Judging Panel.

 

celebrate and recognize excellence in journalism and visual storytelling
celebrate and recognize excellence in journalism and visual storytelling
Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) is looking for editors, photographers, art directors, and category specialists to volunteer as judges for the Alberta Magazine Awards. By lending your expertise to this highly regarded awards program, you help us recognize and celebrate the best Alberta's magazine content. Alberta Magazine Publishers Association couldn't run this program without support from our wider community. Key Dates: Entries will be sent by Monday, April 11, 2025.Score submission deadline: May 9, 2025 Judging is 100% online—convenient and flexible!
 If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Suzanne Trudel, AMPA executive director, at director@albertamagazines.com  . 

9 February 2025,     TORONTO

Magazines Canada Survey On US Tariffs

 

Survey of the severity that tariffs imposed by the United States will have on Canadian magazines,
Survey of the severity that tariffs imposed by the United States will have on Canadian magazines,
Magazines Canada understands the potential severity that tariffs imposed by the United States will have on our economy, including the impacts it could have on your magazine. Working with the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts, Magazines Canada would like to better understand the estimated or potential impacts these tariffs may have if they come into place in March. Magazines Canada would also like to know if there are any intra-provincial or national efforts that could reduce operating difficulties/red tape in Canada. Please fill out the survey below by Friday, February 14 at 5pm ET. Your responses are extremely important in helping to inform the government, funders and Magazines Canada's actions should the tariffs come into place.

30 January 2025,    

COPA 2024 Awards will have Rush Kazi's comedy act as part of the show

 Rush Kazi, Comedian

The 2024 COPA Awards will feature a guest entertainer Rush Kazi, a stand-up comedian based in Toronto. Rush’s comedy style can be described as confessional, raw, and acerbic story-telling. Drawing on life experiences as unique as jail time and as mundane as getting a wax, Rush’s refreshing and hilarious delivery and unique point of view has not found its equal in her contemporaries. Rush’s debut comedy album, About Time, was declared one of the Top 10 Canadian Comedy Albums of 2022 by Glenn Sumi (Now Magazine, So Sumi).  Video Clip 

 

The COPA will be held on February 12, 2025 at Dim Sum King  in Toronto. Tickets are $100 each. Buy Tickets Here.
 

29 January 2025,     EXTON, PENNSYLVANIA

Ricoh's Workplace Fulfillment Gap Index

survey was conducted from Sept/ Oct, 2024, sample of 2,013 U.S. and Canadian adults ages 18-64 who are employed full time.
survey was conducted from Sept/ Oct, 2024, sample of 2,013 U.S. and Canadian adults ages 18-64 who are employed full time.
 Ricoh’s 2024 North American Workplace Fulfillment Gap Index delves into these pressing challenges and insights. Key findings include:
 1) Fulfillment is in decline: 51% of employees feel less fulfilled at work compared to five years ago, with remote workers reporting significantly higher levels of fulfillment than those fully on-site. 
2) A retention lever: 84% of employees said their level of fulfillment is an important deciding factor in whether to stay at a company. 

29 January 2025,     TORONTO

RNAO Media Awards

 

open to all journalists across Ontario who have covered nursing or health care.
open to all journalists across Ontario who have covered nursing or health care.
Hosted by RNAO, the annual Media Awards honours journalists for their outstanding reporting on nursing and health-care issues. Stories published or broadcast in Ontario during 2024 are eligible. Entries are scored by an independent panel of judges consisting of nurses and journalists.The competition is limited to one entry per person. Entrants may not submit a single entry to multiple categories.

28 January 2025,     LOS ANGELES

Playboy Announces the Return of its Iconic Print Magazine

Brand was built from its magazine
Brand was built from its magazine
Playboy magazine with an annual edition to be released in February 2025. Playboy founded in December 1953, shuttered its print operations in 2020, after facing recent struggles with founder Hugh Hefner’s death in 2017 and the floundering of the print business at large. Mark Healy has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief for Playboy magazine's first print edition since 2020. Healy is a well-known content leader, journalist and editor who brings a wealth of experience in the media industry and held senior positions at the GQ, Rolling Stone, and Men’s Journal, where he was Editor-in-Chief.

25 January 2025,     VANCOUVER, BC

BC Magazine Industry Research Project Launched

 

Network of member magazines and professionals for the BC industry
Network of member magazines and professionals for the BC industry
MagsBC is partnering with Deetken Insight and Notio Media to conduct a research project into the current state, issues, opportunities and challenges facing the magazine industry in British Columbia.The intent behind this project is to develop a compelling narrative about the industry as well as establish a fact base that will inform and support the industry’s communication, collaboration, and advocacy efforts.

25 January 2025,     OTTAWA

Access Copyright Three Year Plan

 

three-year transitional plan,
three-year transitional plan,
With this three-year transitional plan, Access Copyright is affirming its mission, vision, and values, and how it serves its members, affiliates, and customers. As we look to the future, we acknowledge our current challenges and recognize that we have an opportunity to address them in new ways, through relationship building and by strengthening our services. Access Copyright is in a period of change and transformation. During the period from 2025 to 2028, the organization will stabilize revenues and strengthen operations. It will maintain its focus on the core business of licensing copyrighted material and distributing royalties to rights holders. Revenues from licensing have declined precipitously over the past decade (falling by 79% since the modifications brought to the Copyright Act in 2012).

13 January 2025,     OTTAWA

Statistics Canada Report On The Publishing Industry Workforce

 

Report paper, the final of a three-study series
Report paper, the final of a three-study series
Stats Canada has released a Report on " Workforce Insights: Demographics in the publishing industries subsector, 2015 to 2023". Employees in the publishing industries have a relatively older age demographic compared with the other culture industries. The distribution of employees by age remained relatively stable in the industry group over the years examined. The most notable change was a shift toward an aging workforce, with the proportion of employees over the age of 65 increasing from 4.6% in 2015 to 9.8% in 2023.

13 January 2025,     NEW YORK

Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge

The merged company will operate under the Getty Images name.
The merged company will operate under the Getty Images name.
 Getty Images and Shutterstock announced that they entered into a merger agreement to combine in a merger, creating a premier visual content company. The combined company, which would have an enterprise value of approximately $3.7 billioni, will be named Getty Images Holdings, Inc. As a combined company, Getty Images and Shutterstock will offer a content library with greater depth and breadth for the benefit of customers, expanded opportunities for its contributor community and a reinforced commitment to the adoption of inclusive and representative content.

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