NMA Winners and Finalists Seals
The 31st annual National Magazine Awards winners
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And the Winners are...
The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) announced the winners of the
31st annual National Magazine Awards at the Carlu in Toronto on June 6, 2008.
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the full list of winners.
Toronto Life won
the coveted Magazine of the Year award, given to the magazine that most consistently engages, surprises, and
serves the needs of its readers.
The Walrus led
all winners with 6 Gold and 4 Silver awards from 37 nominations. Toronto Life, in addition to winning
Magazine of the Year, won 4 Gold and 2 Silver awards. Other multiple winners included Report on
Business and L’actualité (each with 3 Gold and 1 Silver), explore
(2 Gold, 5 Silver), Maclean’s (2 Gold, 3 Silver), Maisonneuve (2 Gold, 2
Silver), More (2 Gold, 1 Silver) and Vancouver Magazine (2
Gold).
Highlights of the individual awards included the award for Best Magazine
Cover going to Maisonneuve (Anna Minzhulina, Art Director), while unlimited won the award
for Best Art Direction for an Entire Issue (Malcolm Brown, Art Director). Report on Business (Gary Salewicz,
Editor) won Gold in the categories Editorial Package and Words & Pictures, while Outdoor
Canada (Patrick Walsh, Editor) won for Editorial Packaging for a Single Service Article, which was a
new category this year. Malahat Review took Gold and Silver in the Poetry
category.
Writer Tadzio Richards won a Gold Award (Investigative
Reporting) and a Silver (Science, Technology & the Environment) for his article “Burning Water” in
Maisonneuve. Ellen Vanstone won a Gold award (Personal Journalism) and a Silver (Humour) for
her article “Home Sweet Hell-Hole” (Toronto Life). Geoff Powter won a Gold and a Silver in
the category Sports & Recreation for two different articles in explore. Pierre Fortin
(L’actualité) won Gold for the second time in the Columns category. Marci McDonald won her
seventh Gold award, this year in Society, while Gerald Hannon won his fifth Gold, this year
in a new category called Best Short Feature.
Top winners at the 31st annual National Magazine
Awards:
|
Magazine
|
Gold
|
Silver
|
HM
|
Total
|
|
The Walrus
|
6
|
4
|
27
|
37
|
|
Toronto Life
|
4
|
2
|
23
|
29
|
|
Report on Business
|
3
|
1
|
12
|
16
|
|
L’actualité
|
3
|
1
|
11
|
15
|
|
Explore
|
2
|
5
|
7
|
14
|
|
Maclean’s
|
2
|
3
|
13
|
18
|
|
Maisonneuve
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
6
|
|
More
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
6
|
|
Vancouver
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
3
|
|
Québec Science
|
1
|
1
|
7
|
9
|
|
Cottage Life
|
1
|
0
|
7
|
8
|
|
enRoute
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
4
|
|
Outdoor Canada
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
4
|
Other Gold awards went to Chatelaine, FASHION, Malahat Review, Queen’s
Quarterly, ON Nature and unlimited.
In the special categories, the winner of this year’s award for Best New Magazine Writer is Patrick
White, for his article “Red Rush” in The Walrus magazine. Patrick also won Honourable Mention for
this article in Science, Technology & the Environment.
Julia Belluz won
the 3rd annual Best Student
Writer award for her article “I” in the Ryerson Review of Journalism. The same article also won Julia a
Silver in Profiles.
The NMAF presented Charles
Oberdorf with the prestigious Foundation Award for Outstanding
Achievement.
The 31st annual National Magazine Awards gala recognized
excellence in Canadian magazine journalism for the year 2007. This year the NMAF received more than 2100
submissions from nearly 200 magazines across Canada, and relied on over 200 volunteer judges to evaluate the
work in 39 categories.
More than 600 guests were in attendance as the NMAF presented Gold, Silver
and Honourable Mention awards in 39 written, visual, integrated and special categories. 76 different
magazines from across Canada comprised the more than 300 total nominations this year.
Gold winners receive $1000. Silver winners receive $500.
Coming Soon: a streaming video of the entire awards presentation will be
available online at www.magazine-awards.com. Plus photos of this year's gala.
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the full list of winners.
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