Alberta magazines campaign for more titles to qualify for provincial funding

One of the aims of Read Alberta Magazines Month (RAMM) is to convince the provincial government to remove funding restrictions so that more Alberta titles are eligible. Colleen Seto, the executive director of the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) told Mastheadonline that currently only cultural titles qualify.

“Right now our magazine funding is set up through the Alberta Foundation for the Arts,” she says. “Funding is essentially available only

to cultural titles, so only 11 titles receive funding through the magazine publishers operating grant.”

Seto says this funding does not represent the over 200 Alberta magazine titles and wants the criteria to be removed. The governments in Manitoba and Ontario don’t have such restrictions on their magazine funding and Seto says the AMPA wants Alberta to follow suit.