Magawards nominees announced: Terry Sellwood to receive outstanding achievement; Walrus and Maclean's lead in nominations
Terry Sellwood is to receive the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 33rd National Magazine Awards, it was announced today. Sellwood is currently the chair of Magazines Canada, general manager of Quarto Communications (Cottage Life, explore, Outdoor Canada, Canadian Home Workshop)and was recently the chair of the awards foundation. Sellwood said: "It's one hell of an honour."
For the first time in many years, Maclean's magazine is one of the leaders in number of finalists (27); only The Walrus exceeded Maclean's, with 33 total nominations. The nominations were announced today in Montreal and the winners will be announced June 4 at the awards gala at the Carlu in Toronto, hosted by Scott Feschuk.
This year, for the first time, all nominees are available for viewing online.
Fifteen articles have been nominated for writing awards in two categories:
Fifteen articles have been nominated for writing awards in two categories:
o An Inconvenient Talk by Chris Turner, The Walrus (Politics & Public Interest and Science, Technology & the Environment)The three magazines nominated for the coveted magazine of the year award were Maisonneuve, Report on Business and Up Here.
o C’était le temps des ayatollahs by Jean Paré, L’actualité (Essays and Personal Journalism)
o Cause & Effect by Lynn Cunningham, The Walrus (Health & Medicine and Personal Journalism)
o Cycle of Life by Rich Poplak, explore (Personal Journalism and Sports & Recreation)
o Fly at Your Own Risk by Carol Shaben, The Walrus (Investigative Reporting and Politics & Public Interest) (Shaben was also nominated for Best New Magazine Writer for this piece)
o Global Impositioning Systems by Alex Hutchinson, The Walrus (Health & Medicine and Science, Technology & the Environment)
o Intelligence sur ordonnance by Louise Gendron, L’actualité (Health & Medicine and Society)
o Into the Heart of T.O. by Jay Teitel, explore (Sports & Recreation and Travel)
o Kids Gone Wild by Bruce Grierson, explore (Columns and Society)
o The Age of Breathing Underwater by Chris Turner, The Walrus (Essays and Science, Technology & the Environment)
o The Big, Bad Chill by Ray Ford, Cottage Life (Personal Journalism and Service: Health & Family)
o The First Letter Arrived on Oct. 10. The Explosion Went Off Two Days Later by Jake MacDonald, Report on Business (Business and Society)
o The Governor Gets His Hands Dirty by Sinclair Stewart, Report on Business (Business and Politics & Public Interest)
o The Land of the Rich and Infamous by Chris Nuttall-Smith, Toronto Life, (Investigative Reporting and Politics & Public Interest)
o Walking The Way by Timothy Taylor, The Walrus (Personal Journalism and Travel)
"Best new magazine writer" nominees were Morgan Dunlop, Danielle Groen and Carol Shaben; "Best new visual creator" nominees were Byron Eggenschwiler, Marc Rimmer and Genevieve Simms
Canadian Living, Dogs in Canada and Torontoist were nominated for website of the year; Maclean's received four nominations in the new online categories, followed closely by The Tyee, with three.
Magazines with multiple nominations included Canadian Geographic, MoneySense, Style at Home, Up Here, This Magazine and Vancouver magazine.
Among the magazines nominated for the first time at the awards were: Argyle, Bien Grandir, Briarpatch, Cellier, CHEEKMagazine.com, Corduroy, Dress to Kill, Flaveurs, Granville, La Presse Affaires Magazine, lametropole.com, Pure, The Tyee, Today’s Parent Baby & Toddler, Torontoist, University Affairs, Uppercase, VitaminDaily.com and Zoomer.
Twelve French-language magazines received a total of 43 nominations, led by L’actualité with 21, Québec Science with five and Urbania and Châtelaine with three each.
Further information on the awards, tickets etc. are available at the National Magazine Awards website.
Labels: awards, National Magazine Awards
posted by D. B. Scott at
6:30 pm
7 Comments:
How, exactly, is Torontoist a magazine? I mean, I get the whole idea of an online magazine, but I've never seen Torontoist refer to themselves that way. By the same measure, this Canadian Mags blog should also be nominated for Magazine of The Year!
Anon, I think for awards purposes you are what you say - ie you pick your category and stay there.
I am curious about one thing, though, re Torontoist. I was under the impression that best cross-platform meant more than one medium - ie print and web. What other medium was Torontoist using other than web? Does anyone know the answer?
Will they be handing out all 40+ awards at the gala? Yikes! The chattering magazine staffers already had a hard time politely (and quietly!) sitting through the awards in previous years.
Still, it is exciting that so many small magazines (and non-Toronto based publications) are getting nominated for the first time.
Kat is correct: if a Web site self-defines itself as an online magazine, so it is. It's then up to the judges as to whether they agree.
As for the cross-platform category, it does not refer to work covering both Web and print. Here is the definition of the category, which should clear up any misunderstanding (this can be found on the NMAF Web site):
"Best Cross-Platform Package: Storytelling using multimedia techniques, such as interactive graphics, Flash, photography, audio and video, taking into account the quality of the journalism, visual design and the artful blending of multiple media."
Finally, the online awards will be presented during a special presentation in the Carlu's Round Room, beginning at 5 p.m. All ticket holders to the gala are welcome. General admission to the print awards begins at 6 p.m. Again, you can find all the details on the NMAF Web site:
http://www.magazine-awards.com
I hope to see everyone there!
Cheers and thanks,
Patrick Walsh, President
NMAF
Patrick, that's funny, I was on the committee defining those categories and I don't recall thinking of it that way. :) Isn't that just a definition of web journalism in general?
I'd be interested to know, Patrick, how the NMAF went about getting permission to post all of the nominated works in PDF form on its site. Presumably, many of those works never appeared online and e-rights were never even granted to the original publisher.
Re. the posting of PDFs of the nominated articles. During the submission process, there was an opt-in box seeking permission for the posting of nominated PDFs on the NMAF Web site. Not one entrant opted out, I should add.
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