CSME discounts its memberships

The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors', as a recognition of recession-tight budgets, is discounting its membership fees, at least in part to keep up entries in its Editors' Choice Awards. (Entries are free, but at least one person from the magazine must be a member of CSME.)

Recognizing the tight budgets faced by many of our partners, friends and colleagues in the industry this year, [it says in an e-letter] CSME is reducing our membership rates for 2009 only. Patron memberships, which cover everyone on your masthead, are now $400 (a $100 discount), and individual memberships are now $75 (a $50 discount). (Those who have already paid the regular rate will be credited or refunded.)