Interview magazine, founded more than 40 years ago by Andy Warhol, folds

Interview magazine, which was founded in 1969 by artist and pop-culture leader Andy Warhol, has folded. It filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Monday and immediately discontinued its print and posted online content.

"Fans of the magazine immediately spoke out in disappointment, as the publication served as a cultural beacon on the intersections of the art, fashion and celebrity for decades [said People].

Although it wasn't likely the only reason, the magazine was sued for $600,000 earlier this months by former editorial director who claimed he wasn't paid by the magazine. 

Life in Québec to end regular publication

Life in Québec magazine has announced the end of the publication after 5 years. 

It’s not because the quarterly magazine was losing money, say the publishers -- each issue either broke even or turned a small profit. It's not because print media is dying, although print media is certainly going through a period of considerable change. 

When we launched Life in Québec magazine, there genuinely was nothing quite like it in Québec [said a statement from the publishers].  English-language publications in the province essentially fell into two broad categories: Montréal-based publications that showed minimal interest in Québec outside the 514 area code, and local publications that catered to pockets of small but vibrant Anglophone communities throughout the province.  We launched Life in Québec magazine to prove that there was a market for a broad range of content about Québec as a whole in the English language without the English language or Anglophone communities being the focus point of our content, and in a manner that fully appreciated and embraced the Francophone reality of Québec. 

In this, we feel we more than succeeded, and can now end regular publication of Life in Québec Magazine with immense pride.

Published by Média Trois Canons Inc., the magazine was launched in November 2012 in Quebec City, as a lifestyle magazine published in English (it had started online in 2010), and containing bilingual (English-French) feature articles, columns, book reviews, a business directory, and more. The magazine is supported by advertising and subscription revenue. All of the articles were usually also uploaded to LifeinQuebec.com.

French-language humour mag Safarir has its last laugh

Final issue, no. 299

A Montreal-based French language humour magazine, Safarir, has ceased after almost 40 years of publishing humorous comic strips, parodies and illustrations. According to a Montreal Gazette story, the reasons for the closure after 299 issues were primarily financial.

The team for the humour magazine said Monday on Facebook that the “grand adventure” had ended, citing the bankruptcy of their distributor last year and large printing costs, coupled with a sharp decline in advertising revenues. 

The team also affirmed that alternatives to the termination of their activities were “envisioned and seriously studied, but did not lead to adequate and concrete solutions.” They said they worked hard over the course of the past two years, to help Safarir thrive, grow and renew itself.

The monthly magazine's name was a play on the words "safari" and "ca fait rire"(it makes you laugh".)

Jewish magazine Outlook closed after 52 years

The final issue

The 52-year-old Jewish magazine Outlook has shut down. At one time, the magazine had offices in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Latterly, it was based in Vancouver. 

According to a story in Canadian Jewish News, Outlook grew out of the left-wing United Jewish Peoples Order (UPJO), a Canadian socialist, political, cultural and educational organization founded in 1926. The magazine's readers was made up mostly of members of UJPO; at its peak, the magazine had 2,000 subscribers.

Roz Usiskin, a past president of the Winnipeg branch of UJPO and an UJPO member since 1945, called Outlook’s closure “ a loss for Canadian Jewry. We lost an alternate voice. That voice was so essential, especially at a time when we have such deep divisions in the Jewish community over the Israeli-Palestinian issue.”

Fresh Juice online site closed down by TC Media

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TC Media, has more or less dispensed with consumer magazines by the sale of its properties to Quebecor's TVA Group. Before that, however, when the print version of the partnership with Loblaw, launched in 2012, was shut down in February 2014, an official statement said that the enterprise would continue online. Apparently not forever. The site has now been closed and visitors are redirected to the website CanadianLiving.com (one of the magazines now owned by Quebecor.) 

[h/t Denise Macharechek]