Outstanding Achievement

The National Media Awards Foundation‘s most prestigious individual prize since its inception in 1990 is the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement, an award that recognizes an individual’s innovation and creativity through contributions to the magazine industry. The award is open to circulation experts, editors, marketing, sales and promotion professionals, publishers, creators, designers, production managers—in short, to everyone in the industry. It cannot be given posthumously.

The NMAF is delighted to announce a unique occurrence in the presentation of the 2023 Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement, as two exceptional recipients are honoured: Jennifer Varkonyi, publisher of Maisonneuve, and Jean-Paul Gagné, publisher emeritus of Les Affaires. This unparalleled decision is due to the Outstanding Achievement Award’s postponement in 2021 and 2022, amid pandemic-related restrictions on in-person events.