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TV Week trounces last days of TV Guide *
In September 2004, TV Week magazine doubled its editorial content. In addition to its comprehensive TV listings, the magazine refocused its editorial to target women by adding new columns about health, home, recipes and shopping.
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Bonnie gets the Star treatment *
Vanity Fair has pushed the envelope of cattiness with its latest profile of Canadian-born celebrity magazine editor Bonnie Fuller.
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By the look of things, this land isn't my land *
Last month, I received with my daily newspaper the premiere issue of the Canadian Tourism Commission's Canadian travel magazine, PureCanada -- 160 pages of bright, glossy features, photographs and maps designed to encourage Canadians to be tourists within our own borders.
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Chocolat covers postal walks *
You can move, but can't hide, from new Rogers magazine. . .
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Copps cuts magazine dollars *
Smaller pot of cash to be made available to a larger number of periodicals -- but it may spell the end for magazines like Homemaker's.
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Editors play musical chairs at Canadian women's magazines *
Are Canadian women's magazines as fickle as the fashions they report on? The last two weeks in the industry have been tumultuous, with senior editors playing leapfrog and the industry itself playing musical chairs, leaving one magazine without a seat.
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In a dumb America, even Playboy looks smart *
Playboy magazine's January issue, which is on sale now, is a special 50th-anniversary edition. In Toronto, the occasion means that we will be treated to a visit by the centrefold, Miss January, who will be signing copies of herself at a downtown newsstand at lunchtime tomorrow.
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Layoffs, union vote hit Maclean's *
Staffers are expected to join CEP in the wake of job cuts and a bureau closing.
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Loose lips tell us Bay St. is about to get 'Franked' *
ERIC REGULY dishes on how ex-Globe seat-mate became front man in magazine takeover
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Macho, macho mags *
For years, U.S. men's magazines have served up a testosterone-packed diet of fast cars, cool gadgets, sophomoric humour and barely clad babes, ALEXANDRA GILL writes. Canadian men could only watch with envy. Until now...
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Maclean's at the crossroads *
On the eve of its centenary, the once-venerable newsmagazine faces sagging circulation, low staff morale and a fierce fight for advertising dollars, MICHAEL POSNER writes.
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Mag on hook for Douglas, Zeta-Jones court costs *
A High Court judge ruled Friday that a celebrity magazine that published unauthorized wedding photos of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones must pay the bulk of the couple's legal costs.
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Major shake-up at Homemakers, Canadian Living *
A reorganization effort at two of Canada's largest women's interest magazines has resulted in the dismissal of Homemakers editor-in-chief Dianne Rinehart and Canadian Living publisher Debbie Gibson.
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Martha and Sears tie the knot *
Stewart moves past legal problems in United States, break with Zellers
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Martha's launching a new magazine *
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. will begin regular publication of Everyday Food, a recipe magazine, with the September issue, following a six-month test run.
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Media snakes eat their own tails *
Who reads profiles of people in magazines? Who buys Vanity Fair and People? Who wants to read gossip about the personal lives of people they don't know? What kind of short-attention-span, superficial ninny wants to read about what's in a newscaster's closet rather than about ideas and events?
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New Frank editor promises satire, pranks *
Frank magazine is ushering in the new year with the naming of a new editor. Journalist Kim Honey has been appointed to helm the magazine starting in January. "I want to poke fun at people, make pranks and roast all my enemies," Honey said.
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Report on Business magazine grabs three awards *
The Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine took three honours at the 26th annual Canadian National Magazine Awards held Friday at Toronto's swanky Carlu lounge.
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Rosie O'Donnell headed to trial *
Former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is heading to trial with the publishers of her former magazine, Rosie, which closed down last year.
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Star-crazed editor abducted by Enquirer *
Bonnie Fuller, the Canadian-born editor who took Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and US Weekly to new sex-charged depths (and sales heights) during brief turns in the editor's chair of each magazine, is moving to a place it will be tough to take more down-market.
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The Fuller effect and the perils of tabloid-ization *
Ooh, the celebrities are not keen on Bonnie Fuller, not keen at all. "She is the devil," Gwyneth Paltrow told me in London on July 16, while wearing frayed jeans, a white eyelet shirt unbuttoned here and there, and modish sport shoes.
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Trouble in the centrefold *
With Penthouse on its deathbed and Playboy possibly giving up nudity, the male rite of passage that was the dirty glossy magazine may not outlive Hugh Hefner. MICHAEL VALPY finds out what happened
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Western culture vultures spy eastern meat *
I want to start out by saying that this column was intended to be a celebration of western Canadian -- particularly West Coast -- magazines. It was geared, therefore, toward assiduous avoidance of all things Toronto.
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Will The Walrus float? *
The newest, and arguably richest, kid on Canada's magazine rack will need its namesake's thick skin to survive. Others ventured where The Walrus wants to go, MICHAEL POSNER writes, but few have made it and none got rich trying
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Depp named sexiest man alive *
People magazine has named Johnny Depp the sexiest man alive, saying the actor, known for his "brooding eccentricities," has mellowed since becoming a father.
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Garber on Business: Writing -- Breaking into the world of trade magazines *
Everything from finding new markets to writing your first query letter is summarized here.
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Humourists hold court in the Big Apple *
You don't get standup comedy at the New Yorker Festival's humour revue -- just great writing.
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Martha Stewart Living Behind Bars *
Spoof cover; sorry, Martha!
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