City and Regional elects new president

Barney Fonzi, group publisher of Diablo magazine, has been elected president of the City & Regional Magazine Association, an organization of 97 primarily paid circulation, general consumer magazines that has several Canadian members, including Vancouver magazine and Okanagan Life. Diablo is based in Walnut Creek, California and serves the affluent communities in San Francisco's East Bay. (CRMA is not to be confused with the International Regional Magazine Association (IRMA) which represents largely tourism- and destination-oriented publications.)

"It is an exciting time to be in a leadership role with the CRMA," says Fonzi. "We continue to see ad pages grow in double digits while other magazine categories are seeing declines due to so many ad dollars being shifted to non-traditional media."

CRMA member magazines have a combined circulation of 4.3 million readers who have over $115 billion in disposable income. CRMA magazines represent a powerful medium for advertisers seeking to reach an affluent, upscale consumer audience.