The Canadian Society of Magazine Ed itors (CSME) announced the 2011 Editors' Choice Award winners on Wednesday, June 8, at a gala dinner held during the MagNet conference in Toronto.
Outdoor Canada was this year's big winner, taking the titles of best medium-sized consumer magazine, best display writing, and editor of the year. Of the three honours from his peers, the display writing prize, named for his friend, the late Jim Cormier, was the one that made editor Patrick Walsh “get weepy.”
Retaining their titles from last year, This Magazine and Design Edge Canada won the small-circulation and trade publication honours respectively, with Homemakers getting the nod for top large-circulation magazine. Best website editorial went to BCBusiness Magazine's online edition, and Spacing won the inaugural Blog of the Year award. Rounding out the awards, Best Front of Book went to Garden Making.
Prior to the awards ceremony, Greg Kayko, editorial director of Meredith Special Interest Media, addressed the sold-out room, with inspirational - and lucrative - examples of why he's sure that “print is not dead.”
