CSME picks Today's Parent and Cottage Life best magazines

The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors has announced the winners of the 2006 Editors’ Choice Awards. The awards ceremony took place at a gala dinner at the Old Mill Inn in Toronto on Thursday night. (At left, Linda Lewis, Editor in Chief of Today's Parent, which won Best Magazine in the large-circ category and also Best Display)

Cottage Life magazine won Best Magazine in the medium-circulation category and the Editor of the Year Award for its editor Penny Caldwell. Judges feel Cottage Life has a strong visual package and that Caldwell has a special gift for staying true to her mission while frequently delivering delightful surprises.

Today’s Parent won Best Magazine in the large-circulation category and Best Display Writing.

Other winners are: Best Front of Book: Toro magazine; and Best Magazine, Small Circulation: Maisonneuve.

[Disclosure: I was one of the judges.]