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Magazine Publishers of America launches initiative to promote magazine advertising [New York Times]

What one (male) editor learned about women's mags by flipping through 4,628 pages of them [Folio:]

Joint literary-mag anthology project was a "traumatic" alliance [Maclean's]

Transcon acquires U.S.-based direct marketing company, Rastar [Stockhouse]

Canadians like their search engines, but not the ads [Marketing]

How to retain advertisers when their competitors bail [Folio:]

Video: Integrating magazines and online [MagBlast]

Is a big launch party worth it? [Seth Godin]

How to develop and monetize social media [Folio:]

Michel Vastel, journalist and contributor to L'actualité, dies at 68 [CBC]

Hello! Canada touts strong sales amid single-copy gloom [Press release]

Microsoft's IE8 browser could block ads [Marketing via AP]

American Business Media announces B2B ad award finalists [ABM]

Chantal Hébert to blog for L'actualité [J-Source.ca]

Canadian Heritage confirms cuts to arts funding, including Canada Magazine Fund [Canadian Press]

Châtelaine gets a redesign [Infopresse, en français]

New appointments to magazine publishing program at Ryerson [Canadian Magazines]

SweetSpot.ca launches webisode series, SweetTV [Marketing]

U.S. trade magazine circ steady in the first half [Folio:]

Advice for handling online comments [Editor & Publisher]

Magazine Web traffic: "Surge" or embarrassment? [Portfolio.com]

Maclean's publisher/editor Ken Whyte to publish bio on American publishing giant William Randolph Hearst [Globe and Mail]

Magazine Web traffic up 8.5% in U.S. [Folio:]

"Real men don't use semicolons" [The Boston Globe]

Quebecor World reports $226 million first half net loss [Folio:]