Quite a night at the National Magazine Awards

At the risk of redundancy and playing catch up, here are some of the highlights, observations and shout-outs (a word I am henceforth banning) for me among the category winners at the 34th annual National Magazine Awards on Friday night. Unquestionably it must have been a difficult task choosing between the three finalists for Magazine of the Year (Print) -- Cottage Life, Canada's History and

Writer, actor, broadcaster Jacqueline Hennessy to emcee Magawards

The National Magazine Awards will be emceed by Jacqueline Hennessy a Toronto-based freelance writer, actor and broadcast journalist as well as a former National Magazine Awards Gold winner. She is currently contributing health editor at More magazine and is the former associate editor for Chatelaine magazine. Other journalism awards she was won were the Canadian Nurses Association Award of Merit

[UPDATED] Mischief or mishap? National Magazine Awards finalist list said to be "counterfeit"

[This post has been updated. See below.]For a brief period this morning, a list that was said to be all the finalists for the National Magazine Awards was circulating, with a link to the awards' website. Since the finalists were not supposed to be announced for another month and since judging processes are not completed, it was suspicious as well as surprising. A note from Barbara Gould, the

Sweeping changes being made to National Magazine Awards

The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) has opened most written categories to digital submissions and said that small magazines may be subsidized to submit as many entries as they wish.The new rules are just in time for the January 14 deadline for submission of entries for the 34th National Magazine Awards which will be presented in Toronto on June 10, 2011.While the awards every year make

Up Here named magazine of the year at National Magazine Awards

Up Here magazine, published out of Yellowknife, NWT, won the coveted Magazine of the Year award at the 33rd annual National Magazine Awards on Friday. The judging panel cited the magazines this way: "Solid and accomplished, Up Here has real personality and shows a strong editorial hand. The degree of difficulty in finding the human and other resources to publish, print and distribute from the

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

Alberta Views wins magazine of the year at National Magazine Awards

The win by Alberta Views magazine as magazine of the year at the National Magazine Awards gala Friday night is well-deserved and though based on its merits, also sends a gratifying message when a small, independent, western magazine comes out on top.Winning is not some fluke, mind: in 2008, the magazine was named best magazine in Alberta at the Western Magazine Awards and in 2007 it won an Utne

Magazine people step up to help the awards

This being a tough year for the National Magazine Awards, it's interesting to see how people from within the industry are stepping up to help. An appeal went out yesterday from former awards foundation president Kim Pittaway, asking for contributions to a "creators' fund"; if she can raise $1,500, that will be enough to sponsor one of the awards. Anyone interested can reach Kim at kapittaway[at]

Who will be this year's outstanding achiever?

The Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement is among this industry's highest honours and a note from the National Magazine Awards Foundation reminds us that the deadline for nominating this year's recipient looms.The deadline to submit nominations for the 2008 Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement is March 1, 2009. The award is open to circulation experts, editors, marketing, sales

National magawards swept (again) by The Walrus

It's probably unnecessary to list extensively the winners and runners-up from the National Magazine Awards three days after the event; those who won know it; those who didn't do, too; those who are interested probably were there or already went to the National Magazine Awards website to see the full list or read about it in various papers. But there are a few things that are worth mentioning:For

You can help pick the best of the best -- 30 years of National Magazine Award covers

As part of its celebration of 30 years, the National Magazine Awards Foundation is having a "reader's choice" vote about the best covers. Go to the voting site and you can vote 3 times for each of 27 covers* that have been finalists. (above, the 1981 gold winner from Quest.) It will be harder than you think...The winners will be announced at the MagAwards gala at the Carlu in Toronto on June 15.(

National Magazine Awards finalists and special category winners announced

Neville Gilfoy will be receiving the coveted Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement at this year's National Magazine Awards. [UPDATE: see his reaction in an item in his hometown newspaper, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.]The awards foundation released its list of the nominees for its 30th anniversary year. Other notable awards that were announced in advance:The Foundation's second annual Best