Spacing magazine and Outdoor Canada win big at CSME Editors' Choice awards

Matt Blackett of Spacing, Susan Antonacci of Canadian Living, Patrick Walsh of Outdoor Canada, Graham F. Scott (former editor) and Lauren McKeon (current editor), This Magazine.

Spacing was one of the big winners of the 2012 Editors' Choice Award of The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) announced Wednesday evening during the MagNet conference in Toronto. It won for Best Web Editorial of the Year (more than 150,000 unique visitors), Best Blog of the Year and Best Front of Book.

Patrick Walsh of Outdoor Canadawas named Editor of the Year for the second year running and his magazine also for the second year took home the award for Best Medium-Size Consumer Magazine of the Year.

This Magazine took top honours in the small-circulation category for the third year in a row, while Canadian Living won in the large-circulation category. Today’s Trucking got the nod as the Trade Magazine of the Year. The award for Best Web Editorial (fewer than 150,000 unique visitors) went to Canadian Art and this year’s honour for the Jim Cormier Award for Display Writing was taken by Explore