Canadian magazine awards to have online
award categories
Canada's National Magazine Awards Foundation has issued a press release about information it is going to issue soon about having online awards:
The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) is launching a new program of awards for online Canadian magazine content.
For the 2009 National Magazine Awards the NMAF will be recognizing excellence in Canadian web-based magazine content and online-only magazines. In addition to our awards for Visual, Written and Integrated print-magazine content, this year we are inaugurating awards specifically for achievements in digital magazine media, with seven new Online Categories:
Although this has clearly been in the works for some time, the pre-release release seems to have been prompted by the announced online component of the U.S. national magazine awards, reported earlier today.
- Outstanding use of digital technologies
- Best visual design
- Best cross-platform package
- Best web-only content
- Best repurposed or adapted content
- Best community feature
- General excellence in online magazine journalism
The NMAF's online awards are open to Canadian print and online-only magazines and their Canadian contributors. All submissions must meet the Rules & Eligibility requirements.
More information about these awards will be posted soon at www.magazine-awards.com. A call for entries will go out on December 1, 2009, and the deadline for submissions is January 15, 2010.
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posted by D. B. Scott at
5:21 pm
4 Comments:
What, no "Best SEO" category?
The judging committee met only yesterday to finalize the category descriptions. Certainly, the NMAF would have liked to have waited for the final wording to be ready (at the next committee meeting on Nov. 4), but we didn't want it to appear we were behind the eight ball. The ad hoc online committee, and now the NMAF's judging committee, have long been working determinedly behind the scenes to achieve the goal of a well-executed online awards regime.
Patrick, does the NMA have a definition for "magazine?"
Rebecca: A definition of magazine vis-a-vis these new online awards? Here's what we currently have drafted: "To qualify for any of the NMAF online categories, a magazine’s website or an online-only magazine must be editorial in nature, that is, a site whose primary function is to inform or entertain rather than to sell products or promote a business. It must include a significant amount of original content and have at least one editor (producer) who makes key creative decisions about the content, tone and point of view of the site. It cannot be a personal blog, although such blogs may be elements on the site. NMAF reserves the right to decide whether an online entity qualifies as a magazine."
I should also note that entries containing significant violations of the Canadian Magazine Industry Advertising-Editorial Guidelines will be considered ineligible. Also, they should follow ASME's Best Practices for Digital Media.
Hope this helps.
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