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Canadian biz magazines to merge in 2014

Canadian Business magazine is merging with PROFIT and the combined publication will put out a reduced number of issues, Rogers Communications Inc. announced Monday.

Christine Dobby of the Financial Post writes, “The Toronto-based telecom giant’s publishing division owns both of the titles and said in a statement the new magazine, which will operate under the Canadian Business brand, will publish monthly, starting Jan. 16.

“It will also put out two PROFIT-themed ‘bonus’ issues, according to the press release.

“Previously, Canadian Business published closer to two issues per month, while the entrepreneurial-themed PROFIT came out six times a year. Rogers says the combined magazine will have a projected readership of more than one million.

“‘We felt that we had two very strong brands that were serving complementary audiences,’ Ian Portsmouth, publisher of the new Canadian Business and former publisher and editor of PROFIT, said in an interview. ‘Our feeling was that if you’re not changing in this marketplace you’re falling behind.’

“He noted that the two magazines will continue to exist online as brands of their own.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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