Founding editor of Style at Home retiring

The founding editor of Style at Home magazine, Gail Johnston Habs, is retiring at the end of May after 12 years with the magazine and 23 with Transcontinental Media.

After founding and editing artviews, a magazine for Canadian contemporary artists, for nine years, and active participation on the boards of several cultural organizations (including the Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Oakville Arts Council) Gail left the visual arts to join Telemedia Publishing in 1986.

She worked in senior editorial positions on Canadian Living, FOOD, Select Homes & Food, and Canadian Select Homes magazines. Formerly a member of the executive of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, Gail was a member of CSME's task force that forged the first set of advertising guidelines for Canadian magazines.

A memo to staff from Transcontinental Media group publisher Deborah Trepanier said:

I know that Gail is proud to have worked not only with the idea generators, as she calls her team of editors, art directors and design editors, but with all the departments that have contributed to Style at Home's growth.