http://www.mastheadonline.com/rss/news.php MastheadOnline RSS en-us Fri, 16 May 2025 10:25:36 UTC Fri, 16 May 2025 10:25:11 EST http://www.mastheadonline.com circulation@masthead.ca webmaster@northisland.ca http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250508895.shtml Thu, 8 May 2025 10:13:02 EST   Canada’s creator and publisher communities On April 25, members gathered online for Access Copyright’s 2024 Annual General Meeting.Financial results for 2024 included: realized $14.148 million in revenue in 2024 with total expenses coming in at $3.430 million. For 2024, the organization ended in a favourable financial position of $1.884 million, reflecting careful management of expenses following the completion of an organizational restructuring at the end of 2023, the winding down of Imprimo and the shift to a remote-first workplace.Distributions for 2024 totalled $7.691 million. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250506920.shtml Tue, 6 May 2025 10:19:09 EST   Intelligence to Prepress Workflows Adobe announced version 7 of Adobe PDF Print Engine. Version 7 includes several rendering innovations that have already been welcomed by leading Print OEMs and RIP solution providers who integrate Adobe technology into their prepress products. The new features can leverage the scalability of the Mercury RIP Architecture. Fewer steps, smarter workflows – PDF Print Engine 7 integrates new functions into the rendering pipeline (inside the RIP), reducing the need for specialized skill sets, and eliminating separate prepress operations. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250501890.shtml Thu, 1 May 2025 04:22:06 EST   Who wants  to be part of the Who’s Who in Canadian publishing the call for Judges for the 2025 COPAs is now open. The COPAs were established in 2009 and is recognized as the premier Digital Publishing Awards Program in Canada because of its neutrality with 50% of the judges from outside of the industry and a 30% turnover every year on the judging panel that includes a public call for judges. Learn more here http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250218066.shtml Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:13:04 EST             Michael Atkins Michale Atkins was an industry mover and shaker in the Canadian publishing scene since the 1980’s and was instrumental in the development of northern Ontario media markets that started with Northern Life, Sudbury.com and Northern Ontario Business He was able to create this into a media empire: Laurentian Media Group that was a diversified media company that included IT World Canada Inc., a print and digital trade group; CCMC Sports Group, an integrated sports marketing and publishing company; ConceptShare Inc., a web-based design collaboration business; Xpeerient Inc., an ICT outsourcing platform; and Adventus International Limited, a digital music business. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250217631.shtml Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:13:05 EST   The winners of the 2024 Canadian Online Publishing awards were announced on February 12 in Toronto with a live zoom-cast to other finalists from across the country. The big winner was University Affairs that got 5 medals (2G, 3S) in the B2B division. Urbania was the big winner in the Consumer category with 3 medals (2G, S) and the Investigative Journalism Foundation of Canada the lead the pack with 2 golds in the Media division. Entries from the schools saw Red River College get 4 medals (2G, 2S). For full list of entries you can see them on the COPA website at this link.   Below is a list of all the 51 medalists from across Canada.   http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250214952.shtml Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:13:05 EST     Invik Drum newspaper's last issue The Inuvik Drum’s last print edition was January 9, 2025, 59 years to the day after it was first published. The Drum, was published weekly, served the town of 3,000 people and the wider Beaufort Delta region, home to just under 7,000 residents. It was first published in 1966 and was acquired by NNSL in 1988. The Company gave no reason for the closure was given. Newspapers have faced significant loss of advertising revenue to digital and social media. News/North will include dedicated stories about [the] Beaufort Delta, http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250214046.shtml Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:13:02 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. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250209813.shtml Sun, 9 Feb 2025 10:22:43 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. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250209791.shtml Sun, 9 Feb 2025 10:13:06 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  .  http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250130812.shtml Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:13:03 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.   http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250129835.shtml Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:24:32 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. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250129798.shtml Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:24:37 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.  http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250128919.shtml Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:08:27 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. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250125936.shtml Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:35:48 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). http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2025/20250125923.shtml Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:45:50 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.