Magazine Associations & Groups

ASBPE is the nation’s only professional association for full-time and freelance editors and writers employed by business, trade, association, and professional print magazines and newsletters and business-to-business digital/Internet publications. The Society helps editors develop editorial and publishing management skills that will enhance their performance with the highest ethical standards, the editorial excellence of their publications, and that will prepare them to play larger roles in their publishing organization. The Society is widely known for its annual Azbee Awards of Excellence competition in editorial and design of magazines, newsletters, and Web sites and e-newsletters, as well as its annual National Editorial Conference. ASBPE has more than 700 members and chapters in 13 cities.

CMPA is Canada's leading professional magazine industry association, representing over 300 of the country's consumer titles.

A nonprofit association, representing magazine publishers and companies who interact with the magazine publishing industry for over 50 years. Serving those publications west of the Mississippi, we are committed to responding to the challenges and opportunities facing our ever-changing industry, today and in the future. We invite you to join the hundreds of magazine publishers who use the services of WPA. Whether your expertise is in graphic design, editorial, production, circulation, fulfillment, advertising or manufacturing, the WPA can enhance your professional talents. Visit our Website at www.wpa-online.org to learn more about our valuable benefits, events and opportunities.

The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP), founded in 1925, works for the benefit of magazine and business-to-business publishers around the world. FIPP’s mission is to promote nationally and internationally, the common editorial, cultural and economic interests of magazine publishers, both in print and electronic media. FIPP focuses its activities on freedom of the press, intellectual property, information provision, freedom to advertise, freedom of distribution and environmental protection. The membership of includes 209 members in 53 countries, which consist of 41 national associations, one regional association (Latin America), 122 publishing companies, 39 associate members and 6 individual members. FIPP serves a global market with a total annual revenue in the region of US$70 billion and approximately 110,000 titles based on figures from FIPP/ZenithOptimedia World Magazine Trends 2004/2005.

NEPA members can take advantage of services, which include conferences and seminars, surveys, studies, free legal and marketing-related counseling, special-interest groups and listservs, and more.

AAP's mandate covers both the general and the specific — broad issues important to all publishers as well as issues of specific concern to particular segments of the industry.

SNAP is the one non-profit, professional society serving the needs of association publishers and communications professionals.

The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is the organisation for magazine and business-to-business media publishers in the UK.

Women in Periodical Publishing -WIPP - was founded in 1999 by five women looking for an organization that met the needs of women in print and online periodical publishing. Out of this need, WIPP was formed to accomplish two goals: to educate, empower and support women in print and online publishing and to educate, empower and support women through the power of print and online publishing. In just a few short years, WIPP has built a strong and diverse community, consisting of nearly 100 individual and corporate members spread throughout the U.S. and internationally.

MAGS is publishing professionals exchanging information and ideas, seeking solutions to common problems, learning moneysaving techniques, staying in touch with major industry suppliers and facing the challenges of the electronic information age together. Nearly every month of the year, MAGS offers something to improve your staff's performance, whether it's a presentation from an industry insider at one of our luncheon, a panel discussion, a boot camp on production/design or ad sales or our successful annual conference. All of these events are presented for a fraction of the cost by people you'd pay hundreds for elsewhere. MAGS’ Associate (vendor) members are highly respected, considered the best in their respective fields, and they’re fellow association members we can feel comfortable turning to for our outsourcing needs. For more information about how you can join MAGS, contact Susan Stottlemyer, CEO, Association Planners of Georgia (APG), 770-381-9616, e-mail: susan@magsoutheast.org