When Toronto Life executive editor Lynn Cunningham gets her Esquire, Saturday Night, Canadian Business and Masthead magazines on the same day, it’s Masthead she reads first. “The information is so vital to me in what I do on a day-to-day basis,” says Cunningham. “While other publications are optional reads, Masthead is a must read.” In… Continue reading Flagship of the Trade
Category: The Magazine
On a Left Wing and a Prayer
James Lorimer is a man with a mission. Hes coming to Toronto this weekend, and he’s got no time for pesky interviews he’s sitting in on the last editorial meetings before the official March relaunch of his magazine,Canadian Forum. Lorimer’s the kind of guy who demands flowchart analysis from his editorial staff: he doesn’t want… Continue reading On a Left Wing and a Prayer
Saturday Night
JOHN FRASER WALKS IN SHORT, staccato steps, shuffling his feet as he moves around the offices of Saturday Night magazine, Canada’s most venerable periodical. In many ways, Fraser’s small steps symbolize the change in the magazine since he took over as editor from Robert Fulford in 1987-slight 3 movements away from the liberal leaning magazine… Continue reading Saturday Night
No Sexism, Please, We’re Broadcasters
There is an impression on the street that the only places in which female journalists don’t get the same treatment as men in the business are in the locker rooms of some of the major sports franchises. But women in television news generally agree that the sexual equality officially on display for viewers of the… Continue reading No Sexism, Please, We’re Broadcasters
Aiming to Displease
Frankly it seemed like a perfect story. It was a barbed, somewhat nasty tale, and it made all the right people look . Wrong. For Frank, the satirical magazine notorious for scoops on the press, a chance to take i poke at The Financial Post was too good a pass up. When whispers of injustice… Continue reading Aiming to Displease