Monday Magazine - monthly
#21
Posted 27 August 2010 - 07:38 PM
#22
Posted 30 November 2010 - 10:10 AM
#23
Posted 21 December 2010 - 10:23 PM
#24
Posted 21 December 2010 - 10:43 PM
Grant McKenzie is the new editor of Monday. CBC is interviewing him tomorrow morning.
He seems like a fun character. I like the axe laying across the old typewriter on his web page. He might just be what Monday needs.
#25
Posted 23 March 2011 - 10:18 AM
The annual Earth Week edition comes out April 21.
#26
Posted 14 April 2011 - 11:28 PM
#27
Posted 15 April 2011 - 10:57 AM
#28
Posted 22 December 2011 - 09:10 PM
#29
Posted 26 April 2013 - 05:41 PM
"This morning, I was terminated from my position as Editor-in-Chief of Monday Magazine for economic reasons :("
https://www.facebook...ckenzie?fref=ts
#30
Posted 26 April 2013 - 05:54 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#31
Posted 27 April 2013 - 05:15 AM
Escort and similar classifieds are most likely the only sizable source of revenue at Monday.
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#32
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:16 AM
I guess the publisher will assume editorial duties like assigning and editing stories since the position is not being replaced. But I feel this is a stopgap measure and that Black wants to put the paper up for sale.
The other Black weeklies are keeping their heads above water with the fat stack of supermarket fliers that come with the paper.
I think the jump the shark moment was the Johnson St. Bridge saga. In the past, Monday would be all over a major story like that, but the story ended up being Focus Magazine's baby and just like that, the torch was passed.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#33
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:17 AM
#34
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:18 AM
For the last two issues, I've noticed Monday Mag subjecting us to full page ciggarette ads, sometimes up to three per issue.
Looks like Monday is lowering their standards just to make an advertising buck.
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#35
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:20 AM
#36
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:26 AM
Today's alternative publications, like Now, can hardly be called "underground" anymore. They are essentially city magazines in tabloid newsprint format, and they vary widely in journalistic quality and ideological orientation. "A lot of the alternative weeklies are cookie-cutter," says Alastair Sutherland, editor of the Montreal Mirror. "You've got a few news stories, you've got 'Life in Hell,' astrology, music stories, listings, and there you go."
Indeed, listings and sex ads are the bread and butter for many of them, while others, like The Boston Phoenix, Halifax's Coast, and Victoria's Monday Magazine, have exceptionally strong news sections and owners willing to commit resources to investigative journalism. Robert Cribb, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists and an investigative reporter at the Toronto Star, points out that this brings prestige to a newspaper, be it a weekly or a daily. "It's exclusive, and it's the kind of journalism that gives any media outlet an identity," he says.
http://www.rrj.ca/m3804/
So much for all that.
Interesting letter from Monday founder Gene Miller:
David,
Hail from long ago! Enjoyed reading your piece about the state and fate of the Seattle Weekly. I think your assessment is accurate--for the Weekly and for almost all of the other alternative newsweeklies--and certainly for Victoria's Monday Magazine (which, believe it or not, pre-dates the Seattle Weekly by a year). I founded Monday with roughly the same intentions held by the other publishers/editors at that time. By the way, I, too, entertained the idea of starting an alternative weekly in Vancouver (my strategy was to purchase the Georgia Straight, but that came to nothing as publisher Dan MacLeod thought better of selling).
Monday, too, is not the publication it was in its heyday. Bear in mind that our publications are now middle-aged, in their mid-thirties, and that so many institutions, not just in publishing, have gone through enormous changes. When I think back, I consider it a good run; and it was so much fun shaming the dozy dailies and connecting vitally, importantly with our readerships.
Sometimes, I yield to nostalgia and the memory of years of journalistic accomplishments, but mostly I take the view, as do you, that things have just moved on...and online. I take the same position about conferences, after recently running seven consecutive annual environmental conferences under the name, Gaining Ground. While it was great to convene communities of conscience in Victoria, Vancouver and Calgary and to powerfully inform audiences, the business model stunk, and the potentials of vaster audiences online reachable at a fraction of the cost beckoned (and continue to beckon) seductively!
Also, it encourages me that alternative and investigative voices seem now to be everywhere. Light now shines into many dark corners, and our alternative newsweeklies have played a significant role in that outcome.
Best to you,
Gene Miller
Founding Publisher
Monday Magazine
Victoria, BC
http://crosscut.com/...seattle-weekly/
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#37
Posted 27 April 2013 - 07:47 AM
And a couple of years ago it was a shadow of what is was a couple of years before that.
It's really unfortunate. At the risk of sounding like an old fart, I remember a time when the Monday was 30 pages long, actually broke stories, and wasn't just something to skim through at breakfast.
Now it seems like a 16 page rag with 10 pages of ads and 6 pages of content.
#38
Posted 27 April 2013 - 10:23 AM
Monday magazine became irrelevant in the local media scene many years ago.
In fact I would argue it became that way soon after Gene Miller left. It deteriorated into a radicalized rag that tried to provide investigative journalism but really only provided stories that reflected its own fringe element thoughts. Surprised it is still around actually.
#39
Posted 27 April 2013 - 11:26 PM
Monday became known as the "Monday Rag" several years after Miller's departure and pushed a left agenda to such a degree that it was unreadable. Everything was wrong with everyone, everywhere, who dared look to the right. The material became predictive and overly biased.
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#40
Posted 01 May 2013 - 10:14 AM
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