Terry Sellwood of Cottage Life Media with David Hayes, freelancer and NMAF board member
And the nominees are...
The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) is
pleased to announce the nominees for the 36th annual National Magazine Awards, including the four finalists
for the prestigious award for Magazine of the Year. View the complete list of finalists (pdf).
From nearly 2,000 individual entries nationwide, the NMAF’s 251 volunteer judges nominated a total of 365 submissions from 87 different Canadian magazines for awards in 47 written, visual, integrated and special categories. The Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention awards will be announced at The Carlu in Toronto on June 7, at the 36th annual National Magazine Awards gala presented by CDS Global. The NMAF thanks its corporate sponsors Accenture, ManuLife Financial, Reader’s Digest Foundation and Sun Life Financial for their generous financial support of the event.[TICKETS]
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The 4 finalists for the coveted award Magazine of the Year, which is awarded to the magazine that in 2012 most consistently engaged, surprised and served the needs of its readers, are:
Corporate Knights,Cottage Life, Uppercase and Urbania.
The winner of the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement, announced on April 30, is Stephen Trumper.
Nominated for Tablet Magazine of the Year are Canadian House & Home (“The Colour Issue”), Maclean’s (“Canada’s Best Restaurants”) and Chez Soi (“Noël 100% déco”). And the nominees for Magazine Website of the Year are Hazlitt, Maclean’s and Toronto Life.
Leading all magazines with 29 nominations for this year’s National Magazine Awards is Toronto Life, followed by L’actualité (24), The Walrus (23), The Grid (22), Maclean’s and Report on Business (20 each).
Top Nominated Magazines for the 36th National Magazine Awards:
| Magazine |
Written |
Integrated |
Visual |
Special |
Total |
| Toronto Life |
19 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
29 |
| L’actualité |
20 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
24 |
| The Walrus |
15 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
23 |
| The Grid |
8 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
22 |
| Maclean’s |
17 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
20 |
| Report on Business |
13 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
20 |
| Maisonneuve |
10 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
14 |
| Cottage Life |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
10 |
| Eighteen Bridges |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
| Sportsnet |
9 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
10 |
| enRoute |
3 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
9 |
| The New Quarterly |
7 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
There are 9 magazines nominated for National Magazine Awards for the first time: Chez Soi, Globe Style Advisor (3 nominations), Hazlitt (4 nominations), Infopresse, Le Must, New Trail, Nouveau Projet (2 nominations), Ottawa Citizen Style and Write Magazine.
Chris Turnerleads all individual finalists with 4 nominations in written categories for his work in Canadian Geographic, Marketing and The Walrus. Garnering 3 individual nominations are Catherine Dubé (L’actualité), Dan Robson (Sportsnet), Iain Marlow (Report on Business) and Dominique Forget (ELLE Québec, Jobboom and L’actualité).
The article “Building with the Brigadier” (Report on Business) by Greg McArthur and Graeme Smith has the distinction of being nominated in 3 categories: Business, Investigative Reporting and Politics & Public Interest.
The 10 finalists for the best Canadian Magazine Cover of 2012 come from Adbusters, Azure, Canadian Business, Maclean’s, Maisonneuve, Report on Business, The Grid, The Walrus, Up Here and Vancouver.
There are 8 finalists for the award for Best Single Issue: Cottage Life(“June 2012”), enRoute (“The Food Issue”), LE Must (“Santé alimentaire”), Maisonneuve (“Tenth Anniversary Issue”), The Feathertale Review (“Issue 9”), The Grid (“May 10”), The Walrus (“November 2012”) and Toronto Life (“The Loneliest Man in Toronto”).
The 3 finalists for Best New Magazine Writer are Chris Hampton (for “The Place Where Art Sleeps”; Maisonneuve), Sierra Skye Gemma (for “The Wrong Way”; The New Quarterly), and May Jeong (“The Cult of Pastor Song”; Toronto Life).
In addition to the new category Tablet Magazine of the Year, for 2012 the NMAF created 2 other new categories for digital content. In the new integrated category Online Video, the 5 finalists are “Balcony Makeover” (Canadian House & Home), “Les coulisses du reportage mode Icône” (ELLE Québec), “Pagelicker 01: Irvine Welsh” (Hazlitt), “Reboot on Life” (Ottawa Citizen Style), and “Toronto’s National Anthem” (The Grid).
Of the 10 finalists in the new written category Blogs, 6 are from Maclean’s, 2 from Torontoist, and 1 each from L’actualité and Today’s Parent.
Gold and Silver awards will be handed down on June 7 in 24 written categories, 12 visual categories and 6 integrated categories. All other finalists will receive Honourable Mention. Winners will also be celebrated in 5 special categories: Outstanding Achievement, Best New Magazine Writer, Magazine Website of the Year, Tablet Magazine of the Year, and Magazine of the Year.
Gold winners in written, visual and integrated categories (except Best Single Issue) receive a cash prize of $1000; Silver winners $500. The winner of Best New Magazine Writer receives a cash prize of $500.
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