Meteoric rise

Announced today that Sharon McAuley will join St. Joseph Media as V.P. Group Publisher of Toronto Life and Saturday Night, at the end of August. Few in the Canadian magazine industry can have had such a steep career curve. Not so long ago she was publishing the tiny affairs of Quill & Quire. Now she is charged with the -- some would say unenviable -- task of revitalizing Saturday Night magazine, as well as directing the St. Joseph flagship Toronto Life. Sharon has shown her mettle as Chair of the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association and brings a circulator's sensibility to the job. Plus she has deftly navigated the shoals of Transcon, so St. Joe shouldn't prove too much of a challenge.