ACP Magazines Shine in Magazine Publishers’ Awards
Friday May 4
ACP Magazines Shine in Magazine Publishers’ Awards
ACP Magazines staff scooped three Supreme Awards at the annual Magazine Publishers’ Awards announced in Auckland tonight. In addition, Your Home & Garden magazine was named joint winner of the Launch/Re-launch of the Year Award.
North & South Editor Robyn Langwell was named Supreme Columnist of the Year and winner of the Current Affairs columnist category. The judges commented “Robyn delivers emotional pull, shows clear passion and skill, and makes her point while respecting her readers’ intelligence.” Writer Margot Butcher won the Supreme Journalist of the Year award for her contribution to North & South magazine. The judges said Butcher, who also won the Current Affairs category, carries the reader with her “vivid, opinionated, highly informative writing that makes complex subjects accessible”.
Metro magazine designer Jed Tallo won the Supreme Designer of the Year award and was winner of the Current Affairs category for an entry the judges said showed “clever use of illustration, wonderful detailing and solid typography”. Monthly home title Your Home & Garden was named joint winner of the Launch/Relaunch of the Year Award for a May 2006 re-launch which saw the magazine repackaged with a new masthead, paper stock and design encompassing fresh editorial features. Cleo magazine’s innovative Bachelor of the Year campaign was Highly Commended in the Circulation Promotion of the Year.
Founding Metro Editor and North & South writer Warwick Roger received a special Magazine Publishers’ Association Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the New Zealand magazine publishing industry spanning more than 25 years. Roger was the inaugural recipient of the award. In total, ACP Magazines collected 23 awards: Editor of the Year Lifestyle Susannah Walker, Next Contract Rosemary Barraclough, Little Treasures Magazine of the Year Lifestyle Next Current Affairs Metro Contract Little Treasures
Designer of the Year Supreme Winner Jed Tallo, Metro Current Affairs Jed Tallo, Metro Mass Market Kelly Lim, Woman’s Day Lifestyle Rachel Morton, Fashion Quarterly
Cover of the Year Current Affairs North &
South Mass Market Woman’s Day Lifestyle Fashion Quarterly
Contract Little Treasures Journalist of the Year Supreme
Winner Margot Bucher, North & South Current Affairs Margot
Butcher, North & South Lifestyle Margie Thomson, Next
Columnist of the Year Supreme Winner Robyn Langwell, North &
South Current Affairs Robyn Langwell, North & South
Lifestyle Helen Brown, Next Special Interest/Contract Karyn
Henger, Little Treasures Home/Food Allyson Gofton, Taste
Launch/Relaunch of the Year Your Home & Garden Circulation
Promotion of the Year – Highly Commended Cleo
ENDS