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The Globe and Mail earned 20 nominations in this year's National Magazine Awards, including 12 for Report on Business magazine and eight for its Style Advisor glossy, as the annual magazine derby unveiled 309 submissions competing in 39 categories for this year's honours.
ROB took six of the 10 nominations in the business category, including Tim Kiladze's inside story of the downfall of the mutual-fund giant AGF, Cry of the Tiger; Jake MacDonald's look at the the port of Vancouver, Heavy Water; Paul Christopher Webster's report on the ties between Big Pharma and Ottawa, Where Did All the White Coats Go?; Patrick White's portrait of the Toronto-born hero of Michael Lewis's book Flash Boys, Starring Brad Katsuyama as Himself; Charles Wilkins's The Deep, his survey of the 11 towns vying to store Canada's nuclear waste; and long-time contributor Trevor Cole's snapshot of an annual mining convention, All That Glitters Is Not Gold. The publication also received nods for infographics; Eric Reguly's columns; Lawrence Martin's The Great Economist, a look at Stephen Harper's economic legacy; and Maryam Sanati's profile of leadership guru Robin Sharma, The Karma of Sharma.
Wilkins's story is also up in the category of science, technology & the environment, giving him a total of 28 NMA nominations since 2000.
Style Advisor is nominated for art direction of the Fall 2015 issue, art direction of a single magazine article, portrait photography, and in the fashion category. It also scored two nominations in each of the still-life photography and spot illustration categories.
"Magazine journalism provides us the opportunity to provide in-depth coverage," said David Walmsley, The Globe's editor-in-chief. "We are pleased to see the judges nominate The Globe and Mail for such a wide range of stories and story treatments, each one showing the vitality of our coverage."
Toronto Life leads the entire pack with 26 nominations, including five for Desmond Cole's searing and much talked-about cover story last spring, The Skin I'm In, about being a young black man in Toronto. (Shortly after its publication, Doubleday Canada signed Cole to a contract for a book based on the article.) Cole's feature is nominated in the personal journalism, essay, and politics and public-interest categories, as well as for the cover itself.
Desmond Cole will also compete in the best new magazine writer category, facing off against Richard Kelly Kemick for his Playing God (The Walrus), Karen Ho's A Daughter's Revenge (Toronto Life) and Kat Shermack's The Tenant from Hell (Toronto Life). Shermack's and Ho's pieces each received two nominations.
Nicholas Hune-Brown has five individual nominations, for his work in Hazlitt, Reader's Digest, Sharp and two pieces in Toronto Life. Emily Landau has four nominations for her work in Toronto Life and The Walrus.
The Walrus placed second in overall nominations, with 20. Maisonneuve and Maclean's each have 18 nominations, followed by L'actualité and Sportsnet with 16 each. Hazlitt, Random House's Web-based literary journal, has 15. Buzzfeed Canada, a Web-based outlet that doesn't normally identify as a magazine, is nominated for the first time, scoring two nods. Other first-time nominees include Montreal's Caribou magazine, DTK Men, the science-oriented Hakai, the literary publications One Throne, Humber Literary Review and The Rusty Toque, the outdoor-sports magazine Oxygène, the film-industry trade publication Reel West, SAD Magazine, and the fashion publications 1968 Magazine and Chloe.
The 39th-annual National Magazine Awards gala will take place June 10 at Toronto's Arcadian Court.