Best in Business nominees announced by SABEW Canada

Several Canadian business magazines, including Report on Business and Canadian Business , have received multiple nominations for the first Canadian Best in Business competition, presented by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Canada. The awards are open to newspapers, magazines and online entities. The winners in the various categories will be announced on April 15 at a reception at Valdez in Toronto. 

Among the magazine nominees are:
Commentary 
Eric Reguly, Report on Business 
James Cowan, Canadian Business 
Jason Kirby, Maclean's
Long-form feature (2,500 words or more)
Jake MacDonald, "The Cost of Freedom", Report on Business magazine
Peter Kuitenbrouwer, "Rebirth of Highway H20", Financial Post 
Trevor Cole, "CEO of the Year", Report on Business magazine
Short-form feature (2,500 words or less)
Michael McCullough, "Yes, You Can Build a Pipeline Here," Canadian Business
Investigative 
Bruce Livesey, "Where our Clothes Come From", Report on Business magazine
Stephanie Nolen, "High and Dry", Report on Business magazine 
Personal finance/Investing
Julie Cazzin, "Looking After Mom and Dad", MoneySense 
Profile
Carol Toller, "Lessons From a Brain Damaged CEO", Canadian Business
Trevor Cole, "CEO of the Year", Report on Business magazine

A group of Canadian journalists launched SABEW Canada, SABEW's first international chapter, last year; the parent U.S. organization is 50 years old and has about 3,000 members. The Canadian branch now has about 200 members, among them reporters and editors from The Globe and Mail, National Post, Canadian Business,  Maclean's,   MoneySense, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and more.

SABEW Canada officially launches September 30

SABEW Canada, the Canadian offshoot of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers is holding its first official event at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto on Tuesday September 30 at 6 p.m. 

SABEW has been around for 50 years and has more than 3,000 members. While the Canadian members have been hosting an annual talk each year since 2010, this marks the official Canadian launch. The Canadian division receives financial and administrative support from SABEW, but it's run by a committee of Canadian business journalists.  

Highlights of the September 30 event are a ribbon-cutting talk by John McCorry, Bloomberg's executive editor for the Americas (and a SABEW member) and the launch of the Best in Business Contest, which highlights overall excellence in newspaper and magazine business journalism in Canada. The Rotman event is free, requiring only an RSVP by September 22. 

Members  (a one-year membership is $56) get access to a number of Canadian specific events, training programs and networking opportunities throughout the year as well as everything the American operation offers, including two main conferences (this year in New York and Chicago).

Transcontinental Media's affaires plus magazine redesigned to become a+

Transcontinental Media's affaires plus magazine has undergone a transformation, with a new design and a rebranding as a+, effective with the issue just now on the newsstands in Quebec.

The monthly magazine was a line extension to the the publication Les Affaires.  While it continued to be aimed at a business audience, affaires plus two years ago shifted its editorial positioning to distinguish itself from the parent publication and put more emphasis on lifestyle subjects and make the magazine more interesting to read, said Daniel Germain, the editor-in-chief . 

Now, by adding fashion, cooking and wine coverage and rebranding, the magazine also hopes to reach a wider readership and to become more attractive to advertisers in the retail, clothing, beauty and automotive sectors.

BC Business to launch new business portal

BC Business magazine (July issue shown, left), published by Canada Wide Media Limited is launching a new online business portal called bcbusinessonline. It goes live July 4.

Like its counterparts Canadian Business and Profit, BC Business will be using the new site to deliver added value material to its subscribers and non-subscribers alike. It extends the reach of the monthly, which has a print circulation of 26,000. It presumably also provides opportunties to sell incremental, online advertising and the means to deliver podcasts, e-letters and similar extensions.