Workshops July 14-16 on the Special Measures for Journalism Fund – CHANGE
To help BC magazines apply for funding through this program.
To help BC magazines apply for funding through this program.
Forty-five million earmarked for print and digital magazines and weekly newspapers across Canada.
Conferences and other events of interest to magazine professionals in Canada, the U.S. and beyond. Includes recent cancellations and postponements.
Based on a nationwide survey distributed in March 2020 to publishers by a consortium of magazine associations, 154 publishers representing 394 publications across Canada estimate they will lose up to $65 million in revenues.
April 9, 2020 coverage.
Brief announcement about Journalism Tax Measures and Canadian Heritage funding.
Conference postponed until September 2020.
Forms, guidelines, and modernization plans have all been posted. Deadline: March 16, 2020
“The breadth of creativity is exceptional if editors are willing to search for it.”
Pitching seminar with editor Anicka Quin and freelancer Tim Querengesser, Feb. 18. Attendees can then present ideas at our Pitchfest, March 4 to magazine editors. Both in Vancouver.
Includes insights into revenues and sustainability, digital content and presence, engagement and more.
As well as new achievement awards for Manitoba and Saskatchewan magazines by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA).
Cancelled because of lack of interest.
Cancelled because of lack of interest.
More news expected later this fall.
Of interest to our members. Includes contests, calls for submission, awards and a fellowship.
Six p.m. at The Art Room, Mount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 Kingsway, Vancouver. All interested magazine professionals, freelancers and students are welcome to attend. After-social at The Wallflower at 7:15 p.m. Please RSVP.
In Vancouver and Victoria, May 23 and 24. Workshops feature Cicely Blain, Chelene Knight, Melanie Samuels and Jónina Kirton. Sessions include respectful work environment (employer’s obligations, HR best practices), unpacking diversity (cultural appropriation, indigenization, etc.), the front lines (role plays on how to deal with discrimination and harassment), and supporting change.
Ten transit shelter ads will be up between April 15 and May 6, 2019.
Conferences and other events of interest to magazine professionals in Canada, the U.S. and beyond.
Includes contests and awards.
Magazine professionals, publishers, freelancers and students are welcome to attend but must RSVP.
Our Read BC Magazines campaign runs from March 4 to April 7, 2019.
Although the 2019 MagsWest conference had lower attendance than last year, with about eighty delegates registered over the three days, attendees rated most of the 17 sessions and 21 speakers very highly.
Schedule of programming and events with links to more information and to register.