The Walrus has once again secured the most nominations for Canada’s annual National Magazine Awards.
The monthly current affairs magazine led the pack of 2010 nominees with 35 nods. Report on Business magazine, which is published by The Globe and Mail, moved to second place over all with 30 nominations, tied with Toronto Life. L’Actualité has 22.
The nominees were announced on Monday by the National Magazine Awards Foundation. It also announced that the finalists for Magazine of the Year are Canada’s History, Cottage Life and MoneySense.
There are 10 nominees for Digital Magazine of the Year, a category that was introduced at last year’s awards, including Macleans.ca and Enroute.aircanada.com, the website of Air Canada’s in-flight publication.
The awards have also continued to open up to digital magazines. For the first time this year, many of the written categories were open to digital publications as well as print. Two new digital categories were also introduced: Best Digital Design and Best Multimedia Feature, in which Report on Business magazine gained two nominations and The Globe’s Your Business magazine received one.
Numerous Globe writers and editors were honoured for their work, including Kevin Carmichael, Grant Robertson, Dave McGinn, Jeff Gray, Eric Reguly, John Daly, Judith Pereira, Claire Neary and Dawn Calleja. Report on Business Magazine art director Dominic Macri is nominated a total of six times – the most nominations for visual work.
The winners will be honoured in Toronto on June 10. More than 230 judges from the foundation settled on the 379 nominees from 88 publications.
D.B. Scott, president of publishing and magazine consulting firm Impresa Communications Ltd., will receive the award for outstanding achievement. Mr. Scott also writes a definitive industry blog, Canadian Magazines. The Walrus’s editor and co-publisher John Macfarlane called the blog a “public square” when he encouraged the judges to recognize Mr. Scott.
