The Site magazine captured the coveted overall Magazine Grand Prix award at the National Magazine Awards Friday night in Toronto. The award honours essentially "best in show", the magazine that delivers the best consistency, packaging, and reader
experience; that demonstrates overall excellence in bringing teams together to
create a spectacular product; is aspirational and inspiring, helping to take
magazine media to the next level. The jury said of the
magazine:
“The Site Magazine impresses readers with the consistency
of its content and design. Though highly specialized, this audacious magazine
captures the essence of contemporary publishing through a conceptual approach
that illuminates our time in an intelligent, deep and original way. The result
is a great reader experience on every page, one that is truly deserving of the
Magazine Grand Prix.”
The Site was also named Best Magazine: Art
& Literary and won Silver in the category of Best Editorial Package for
its whole-issue package titled “Future Legacies.”
For the 2017 awards year, 197
Canadian magazines entered the National Magazine Awards, which are managed by the National Media Awards Foundation, submitting the work of
more than 2,000 writers, editors, photographers, illustrators, art directors
and other creators. The NMAF’s 150 volunteer judges nominated a total of 208
submissions from 81 different Canadian publications for awards in 29 written
and visual, editorial and best magazine categories.
Category results in the Grand Prix: Best Magazine were
- Best
Magazine: General Interest
- Gold:
L’actualité
- Honourable Mention: Nouveau Projet and Report on Business
- Best Magazine: Lifestyle
- Gold: Ricardo
- Honourable Mention: Chatelaine
and explore
- Best Magazine: Service
- Gold: Best Health
- Honourable Mention: Rotman
Management and Today’s Parent
- Best Magazine: Fashion &
Beauty
- Gold: FASHION Magazine
- Honourable Mention: ELLE
Canada and S/magazine
- Best Magazine: Art &
Literary
- Gold: The Site Magazine
- Honourable Mention: Brick
and Inuit Art Quarterly
- Best Magazine: Special
Interest
- Gold: Hayo
- Honourable Mention: Azure
and Planète F
The magazines with the most awards were as follows:
Magazine
|
GOLD
|
SILVER
|
HM
|
L’actualité
|
3
|
4
|
6
|
Dînette Magazine
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
The Site Magazine
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
Toronto Life
|
2
|
1
|
6
|
The Walrus
|
2
|
0
|
10
|
Maclean’s
|
2
|
0
|
5
|
Canadian Geographic
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
FASHION Magazine
|
1
|
1
|
7
|
L’inconvénient
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
 |
Lianne George of Chatelaine
named Editor Grand Prix |
New this year, the award for Editor Grand Prix , was presented to Lianne George (right), editor of Chatelaine magazine. Charles Grandmont (L’actualité) and
Nicolas Langelier (Nouveau Projet) each received an honourable
mention.
The award for best new magazine writer, presented to an emerging author whose early work in magazines
shows the highest degree of craft and promise, went to Jessica Rose for her piece “Lost and Found” published in Toronto Life. The National Magazine
Awards jury said of the story:
“With the suspense and pacing of a great
mystery, Rose unwinds her own search for family and belonging with an
outstanding, unputdownable rookie effort.”
Honourable mentions went
to Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canadian Geographic), Justin Dallaire (United Church Observer), Christopher Elliott
(Outpost Magazine) and Hadiya Roderique (The Walrus).
Announced previously, the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement -- the most prestigious award the industry can offer an individual -- was presented to Joyce Byrne, the publisher of Avenue Calgary and formerly president of the NMAs. magazine-awards.com/oa
Highlights of the 41st National Magazine Awards:
The magazines with the most awards were as follows:
Magazine
|
GOLD
|
SILVER
|
HM
|
L’actualité
|
3
|
4
|
6
|
Dînette Magazine
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
The Site Magazine
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
Toronto Life
|
2
|
1
|
6
|
The Walrus
|
2
|
0
|
10
|
Maclean’s
|
2
|
0
|
5
|
Canadian Geographic
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
FASHION Magazine
|
1
|
1
|
7
|
L’inconvénient
|
1
|
1
|
|
- The magazine L’actualité won three Gold and four Silver medals. Reporter and columnist Noémi Mercier (the host for the evening) captured Gold for her column “Des gars, des filles.” In the Service Journalism category, L’actualité swept both awards, with
journalist Yanick Villedieu taking Gold for “La guerre au sucre” and Mathilde Roy Silver for “Quand Facebook remplit les biberons.” Data
journalist Naël Shiab also captured Silver in Investigative
Reporting for his story “Marchandises militaires : la grande hypocrisie
canadienne,” as did Marc-André Sabourin in the Feature Writing category for “L’école à la chaîne. The magazine art
director, Amélie Chamberland, also won silver for Art Direction of a Single Magazine Article for the
piece “Changer le monde.” Finally, the publication
was named Best General Interest Magazine.
- Lifestyle magazine Dînette, published by editor and art director Hélène Mallette and
publisher and photographer Mathieu Lachapelle, took home three Gold
Medals in the categories of Best Editorial Package (the “Salé” issue),
Lifestyle Photography (“Les îles Féréo : à la frontière du monde et des saveurs”) and Art Direction Grand
Prix (the “Pigment” issue).
- Toronto
Life took home three medals, two golds and one
silver. The coveted Best New Magazine Writer title went to emerging writer –
and the magazine’s former art director – Jessica Rose, who impressed the
judges with her piece “Lost and Found.” As well, writer Raizel Robin won
a Gold medal for his investigation into the Toronto South Detention Centre
(“The 1-Billion Hellhole”). Finally, Toronto Life captured its third
award of the night thanks to Malcolm Johnston’s profile of the Blue
Jays’ star third-baseman, titled “Josh Donaldson’s Road to Glory.”
- The Walrus won two Gold medals in the visual categories of Illustration and
Portrait Photography. Visual artist Lauren Tamaki captured Gold for her piece “Get the Scissors,” as did photographer Sara Hylton in Portrait
Photography thanks to her “Portraits of Resilience.”
- Maclean’s magazine won two National Magazine Awards, both Gold. Writer Jason Markusoff took home the award for Feature Writing (“The New Underground Railroad”), and Nancy Macdonald
for Short Feature Writing (“Waiting for Death in
Thunder Bay”).
- The Canadian
Geographic team also took home two
Gold Medals. Wade Davis, Nick Walker and Chris Brackley won in the category of One-of-a-Kind
Storytelling for their “Indigenous languages of
Canada Poster Map,” and writer Charles
Wilkins in the writing category of Long-Form Feature Writing for his story “Trash Nation.”
- FASHION Magazine’s work was recognized twice, as the publication captured a Gold and a
Silver Medal. The magazine was named Best Fashion & Beauty Magazine in
addition to winning Silver for Cover Grand Prix for “40 Years of Style.”
- The French-language literary publication L’inconvénient captured two awards after receiving its first-ever nominations at the
National Magazine Awards. Poet Rosalie Lessard won the Gold Medal in Poetry for her piece “Base-de-roc,” the first time in the history of the National Magazine Awards that a
French-language poem has captured the Gold Medal. Meanwhile photographer David Himbert won Silver in Photojournalism and Photo Essay for his Cuban story “Les Cubains et l’après-Fidel.”
- Five magazines won a National Magazine Award for the first time: Hayo, Inuit Art Quarterly, L’inconvénient, Registered Nurse Journal and The Site Magazine.
Below are the individual gold and silver awards winners:
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