Editing Exclaim! (section)

==History==
''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at [[Toronto Metropolitan University|Ryerson]]'s [[CKLN-FM]] in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig,<ref name=ann>{{Cite web |url=https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/local-heroes-ian-danzig-and-james-keast-of-exclaim/ |title=Local heroes: Ian Danzig and James Keast of Exclaim! – NOW Magazine |access-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213084907/https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/local-heroes-ian-danzig-and-james-keast-of-exclaim/ |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since.<ref name="sad">{{cite news|author1=Sadaf Ahsan|title=Freedom of the press: How Exclaim! became the last Canadian music magazine still standing by giving a voice to the underground|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/music/freedom-of-the-press-how-exclaim-became-the-last-canadian-music-magazine-still-standing-by-giving-a-voice-to-the-underground|access-date=February 23, 2017|work=National Post|date=January 13, 2017}}</ref>

Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start.<ref name="sad"/> 

The magazine had no official name for its first year of operations, with only the ''!☆@#'' logo appearing on the cover, and introduced the name ''Exclaim!'' after Danzig realized that its growth and appeal to advertisers were being limited by a reader tendency to refer to it as ''Fuck''.<ref name="sad"/>

The magazine is distributed across Canada as a free publication to campuses, community radio stations, bars, concert halls, record stores, cinemas, libraries, coffee shops, convenience stores and street vending boxes. It is also available with a home mail delivery subscription.

Danzig has attributed the magazine's survival in part to the fact that the internet ushered in an era of "free culture" in the late 1990s, meaning that the magazine never had to change its existing business model or alienate readers by introducing [[paywall]]s.<ref name="sad" />

In 2023, ''[[The Ubyssey]]'', the student newspaper of the [[University of British Columbia]], parodied ''Exclaim!'' with a year-end spoof issue titled ''Explain!''<ref>Alex Hudson, [https://exclaim.ca/comedy/article/ubc_has_published_a_parody_of_exclaim_magazine_called_explain "UBC Has Published a Parody of Exclaim! Magazine Called Explain!"]. ''Exclaim!'', April 12, 2023.</ref>