MastheadOnline News RSS http://www.mastheadonline.com/rss/news.php MastheadOnline RSS en-us Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:03:22 UTC Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:02:05 EST http://www.mastheadonline.com circulation@masthead.ca webmaster@northisland.ca Canada Post Changing Systems On July 2nd http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250214046.shtml Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:49:49 EST Canada Post lost a lot of parcel business in the last two postal strikes and is trying to get it back.  Canada Post will migrate from their current SAP platform to the next generation cloud-based SAP solution. This upgrade will immediately improve how customers ship, mail and access parcel pricing. It will also provide improved billing and invoicing. Canada Post intended stated a target go-live date of September 3, 2024. Canada Post had re-aligned the target date to July 2, 2025. These changes may impact some customers accounting processes. Parcel rates, price changes for Parcel Services will come into effect with the 2025 implementation timing of the new SAP platform. rate codes for Parcel Services will expand from 45 to 128, while maintaining the current number of weight steps. Magazines Canada Survey On US Tariffs http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250209813.shtml Sun, 9 Feb 2025 13:49:45 EST   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. Alberta Magazine Awards Looking For Judging Panel. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250209791.shtml Sun, 9 Feb 2025 13:49:53 EST   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  .  COPA 2024 Awards will have Rush Kazi's comedy act as part of the show http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250130812.shtml Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:50:04 EST  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.   RNAO Media Awards http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250129835.shtml Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:49:47 EST   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. Ricoh's Workplace Fulfillment Gap Index http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250129798.shtml Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:52:27 EST 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.  Playboy Announces the Return of its Iconic Print Magazine http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250128919.shtml Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:49:44 EST 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. Access Copyright Three Year Plan http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250125936.shtml Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:49:45 EST   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). BC Magazine Industry Research Project Launched http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250125923.shtml Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:49:47 EST   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. $100M In Payments To Canadian Journalism By Google http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250115072.shtml Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:38:03 EST   money to the Canadian Journalism Collective, Google has sent the $100 million it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act to a journalism organization designed to disperse the funds. Google confirmed it has transferred the money to the Canadian Journalism Collective, a federally incorporated non-profit organization run by independent publishers and broadcasters. Postmedia Revenue Up and Losses Up http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250113203.shtml Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:50:01 EST   with more than 130 brands across multiple print, online, and mobile platforms. Revenue for the quarter was $110.3 million as compared to $104.6 million in the same period in the prior year, representing an increase of $5.7 million (5.4%). The revenue increase was primarily due to increases in advertising revenue of $5.6 million (11.1%), circulation revenue of $3.3 million (10.3%) and parcel revenue of $0.4 million (2.8%), partially offset by decreases in other revenue of $3.6 million (43.8%). Excluding the impact of the Saltwire asset acquisition, advertising revenue for the quarter increased by 1.4%. As such, excluding the impact of any acquisition related activity, advertising revenue has increased in comparison to the same quarter in the prior year for the first time since the third quarter in 2022. Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250113189.shtml Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:59:39 EST 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. Statistics Canada Report On The Publishing Industry Workforce http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250113166.shtml Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:59:07 EST   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. The Canadian Jewish News To Relaunches Print Edition http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250113154.shtml Tue, 7 Jan 2025 18:51:35 EST New quarterly printed magazine  Hamutal Dotan Editor in Chief has announced the relaunch of the printed version of The Canadian Jewish News. The redesigned magazine Scribe Quarterly—a name that both hearkens to tradition and evokes the journalistic goals they will be pursuing. They say they will be covering everything from politics to religion, education to food culture. A national edition of the newspaper was published for 60 years in Toronto. COPA 2024 Winners will be Announced on February 12 http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250108022.shtml Wed, 8 Jan 2025 12:16:54 EST   The 16th Annual 2024 COPAs will be held on Febraury 12, 2025 in a hybrid event the will consist of a dinner party and webacst for attendees from across Canada.The event will be broadcast on Zoom and on X #mastheadmag. The COPAs are Canada's largest industry event for publishers across Canada. The tickets are $100 per person or $35 for the webcast Event Registration https://canadianonlinepublishingawards.com/2024/event