Walrus lumbers away with 49 Magawards nominations
The Walrus has been nominated an astounding 49 times* for this year's National Magazine Awards. The nominees represent over 300 articles in 75 different magazines, and were chosen from over 2,300 total entries.
Other top nominees were Toronto Life (24 nominations) and the late Saturday Night (20 nominations). L’actualité got 18 nominations, Explore 14 and Toro 13. The full list of nominees can be downloaded from the website of the National Magazine Awards Foundation.*In the illustration category alone, The Walrus has 7 of 10 nominations
Other top nominees were Toronto Life (24 nominations) and the late Saturday Night (20 nominations). L’actualité got 18 nominations, Explore 14 and Toro 13. The full list of nominees can be downloaded from the website of the National Magazine Awards Foundation.*In the illustration category alone, The Walrus has 7 of 10 nominations
posted by D. B. Scott at
9:17 pm
6 Comments:
I wonder what the nomination rate is on submissions. Because 49 nominations is ridiculous. In fact, it is difficult to take that seriously.
I think I'll be spending a lot of time in the smoking lounge. His Ken-ness on stage for every category? Snooze.
I thought the Walrus was broke and couldn't pay its writers. How much money do you have to spend on entry fees to get 49 nominations?
Frankly, the whole NMAGS set-up is embarrassing. 10 nominees in each category, for a total of 300!Individual stories that are nominated three or four times in different categories. What other journalism awards do that?
It all looks like a way for the foundation to pull in maximum bucks on the nominations and the long, dull soiree. And it allows the magazines to come up with bloated totals like 49 nominations to use in their bumpf.
Anonymous number #3. You're way behind the times. The Walrus has recieved their funding and writers are being paid handsomely.
... plus the weekly saturday night pulled in 59 nominations in 2000.
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