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Magazines tell all kinds of stories—from war-zones to kitchen tables, from celebrity profiles to new technology—they share the narratives people want to read. But with
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Magazines tell all kinds of stories—from war-zones to kitchen tables, from celebrity profiles to new technology—they share the narratives people want to read. But with the audience for magazines being uniformly people, why would the authors be anything else? Let’s delve into how magazines are encountering AI in the newsroom, the submissions inbox, and beyond.
Speakers for this event
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Caitlin Stall-Paquet
Caitlin Stall-Paquet
Caitlin Stall-Paquet is the editorial director of Serviette, an award-winning magazine about all things food. Her writing has also appeared in The Globe and Mail, The CBC, The Walrus, The Narwhal, The Toronto Star, Elle Canada, and Canadian Geographic, among others.
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Nicholas Hune-Brown
Nicholas Hune-Brown
Nicholas Hune-Brown is a writer and the Executive Editor of The Local, an online non-profit publication that tells in-depth stories from corners of Toronto too often overlooked. In its first six years, The Local has been recognized as one of the country’s best new journalism outlets, earning some of the industry’s highest honours. As a magazine writer for publications like The Walrus, Toronto Life, and The Guardian, Nicholas has won a number of awards, including multiple National Magazine Awards, the Canadian Association of Journalists award, and the 2022 Hillman Prize.
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Paul Vermeersch
Paul Vermeersch
Paul Vermeersch is a poet, multimedia artist, and professor at Sheridan College. He is the editor-in-chief of The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing and the senior editor of Wolsak & Wynn Publishers. His latest book is NMLCT, published by ECW Press in 2025.
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Rebecca Rosenblum
Rebecca Rosenblum
Rebecca Rosenblum is the Membership and Communications Manager at Magazines Canada. She is also the author of fiction and memoir, short-listed for the Trillium Book Award, the Amazon First Novel Award, and the Toronto Heritage Book Award, among many others.
Partners
Magazines Canada
Magazines Canada is Canada’s national magazine association. We have been providing our members with news, professional development and advocacy since 1973. As a member-driven not-for-profit organization, we serve Canadian magazines of all scope and size through ongoing programs and special initiatives. Magazines Canada protects and supports the interests of the Canadian consumer and business media magazine industry, and is a strong voice in all levels of government. We believe in the cultural and economic value of the Canadian magazine publishing industry.
Serviette
Serviette is a magazine about food: the people who grow and produce it, the distances we travel to eat it, and all the ways it’s tangled up with culture, science, history, and design.
The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing
The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing is a literary magazine published by the Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing at Sheridan College. The Ampersand Review publishes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, interviews, and book reviews from across Canada.
The Local
The Local is a non-profit online magazine covering urban health and social issues in Toronto.
We are unabashedly Toronto, reporting from corners of the city that are often ignored or misunderstood, with bylines as diverse as the city itself. We aim to fill a role that traditional media neglects—turning complex policy issues into compelling narratives, and addressing problems that are systemic and ongoing, even if they don’t have a news hook.