2014 Magazine Media Awards Winners
Held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on the 25th of September, the 2014 Magazine Awards were a glittering affair. 300 people from the magazine and media industries gather to celebrate the best in the business.
"No matter what platform – be it social, digital, print or even television – no media comes close to magazines when it comes to inspiring trust and establishing credibility. Congratulations to this year’s award winners, and to everyone who entered. Your products are ahead of the game, simply because they ARE magazines."
Julian Andrews, Commercial Director, MPA
Best Columnist
Business & Trade
Winner: Pattrick Smellie, Idealog
“Takes dry facts and turns them into informed, lively opinion. Always insightful, yet with a light touch.”
Consumer
Winner: Diana Wichtel, New Zealand Listener
“Her style is effortless and well-practiced. She may be writing about television but she can transform something people regard as trivial into something meaningful."
Best Cover
Sport & Leisure
Winner: Sky Sport, June 2013?
"Highly topical story with simple and strong visual impact"
Business & Trade
Winner: Pro Photographer, August/September 2013
“An imaginative and impactful use of photography on the cover that connects well to the main cover line."
Highly Commended: Idealog, March/April 2013; New Zealand Doctor, August 2013
Celebrity & Women's Interest
Winner: New Zealand Weddings, Planner? 2013
"The designer took a risk with a bold, uncluttered cover and two foils that delivered commercial success.”
Highly Commended: Australian Women's Weekly, October 2014
Lifestyle
Winner: Cuisine, May 2013?
"A cover concept that drew the reader in, got cut through, and delivered strong retail results in a cluttered category; plus an innovative subscriber-only version."
Highly Commended: Good, January/February 2014
News & Current Affairs
Winner: New Zealand Listener, May 4 2013?
"Strong image directly linked to a compelling cover line and proven commercial success."
Best Designer
Business & Trade
Winner: Marc Backwell, Pro Photographer
“A graphically bold and impactful magazine, presenting content in an effective way for its discerning professional audience.”
Consumer
Winner: Richard Brunton, New Zealand House & Garden
“A designer who is integral to every aspect of the magazine’s production and style, and who successfully delivers variety to the reader.”
Highly Commended: Fiona Lascelles, Cuisine
Specialist (circulation under 12,000)
Winner: Samantha Smith, New Zealand Weddings
“A multi-layered design with the use of clever personality touches to connect with readers”?
Highly Commended: Marc Backwell, New Zealand Geographic; Tracey Ellin, Good
Best Editor
Editor of the Year 2014
Winner: Sido Kitchin, Woman's Day
“Sido is a world-class editor whose drive is unrivalled. Highly respected by her team, her company and the industry, she provided a compelling entry by any measure. She didn’t just live up to her readers’ expectations, she gave them the wow factor.”
Sport & Leisure
Winner: Rebecca Hayter, Boating New Zealand
Celebrity & Women's Interest
Winner: Sido Kitchin, Woman's Day
"Getting the royal baby issue out before any other media in the world was an incredible feat. It showed true editorial leadership.”
Highly Commended: Melissa Gardi, New Zealand Weddings
Lifestyle
Winner: Sally Duggan, New Zealand House & Garden
“This high-calibre category had many laudable entries. This editor excelled in delivering a superb reader experience, a top-class environment for advertisers and commercial success for the publisher.”
Highly Commended: Jeremy Hansen, Home New Zealand
News & Current Affairs
Winner: James Frankham, New Zealand Geographic
"NZ Geographic engages its audience not only through a quality magazine, but also a phenomenal photography competition that brings the brand to life. Establishing a digital archive undoubtedly broadens the audience. James is justifiably a leader of his genre.”
Highly Commended: Simon Wilson, Metro
Best Journalist
Celebrity & Women's Interest
Winner: Suzanne McFadden, Australian Women's Weekly
“Empathetic with immediate rapport, well-paced and kept you reading to the very last line."
Lifestyle
Winner: Ann Warnock, New Zealand Life & Leisure
“Stories had broad appeal by introducing us to interesting subjects who we would love to have as guests at our next dinner party."
Highly Commended: Rebekah White, Good
News & Current Affairs
Winner: Rebecca Macfie, New Zealand Listener
"In depth reporting and analysis, with a lightness of touch that makes everything she writes instantly readable from the first line to the last."
Highly Commended: Donna Chisholm, North & South
Best Magazine
2014 Magazine of the Year
Winner: Woman's Day, Bauer Media
"In a declining category that is being attacked on all sides, risk taking and innovation still wins the day. With its royal baby story, this magazine wasn't just first in New Zealand, it was first in the world."
Sport & Leisure
Winner: Boating New Zealand, Fairfax Media
?"Impressive turnaround story in the midst of a tough sector and a great example of a publisher recognising the difference one passionate person can make."
Business & Trade
Winner: Idealog, Tangible Media
"Entering its 10th year, Idealog remains the business class leader with a winning combination of incisive editorial content, strong design and a vibrant website, all backed up by solid revenue growth."
Highly Commended: New Zealand Business, Adrenalin Publishing
Celebrity & Women's Interest
Winner: Woman's Day, Bauer Media
“...beating the rest of the world with the royal baby is an incredible achievement. ”
Highly Commended: OHbaby!, OHbaby! Limited
Lifestyle
Winner: New Zealand House & Garden, Fairfax Media
"The standard in this category was uniformly high which made it a difficult category to judge. NZ House & Garden rose to the top because it's not resting on its laurels, with risk taking and increased metrics across the board."
Highly Commended: Good Health Choices, Bauer Media; Good, Tangible Media
News & Current Affairs
Winner: New Zealand Geographic, Kowhai Media
"An impressive all-round package that ticks all the boxes: financials, photography, editorial. Plus innovative brand extensions."
Best Marketing Campaign
Winner: New Zealand Geographic, Photographer of the Year 2013 event
"An exceptional integrated marketing campaign, with national reach, impressive results and an innovative funding model."
Best Publishing Innovation
Winner: New Zealand Weddings, Fashion Week Experience 2013
"A multi-dimensional initiative that brought the magazine to life, engaged with its audience and advertisers, and delivered an exceptional return on investment"
Highly Commended: Pro Photographer, Pro App
Best Photography
Celebrity & Women's Interest
Winner: New Zealand Weddings, Love at Veronica Bay, Autumn 2013
“The style and setting of this spread perfectly matched the vintage nostalgic subject, without relying on cliché filters. This entry had great flow throughout the whole feature with good use of smaller details in the layout.”
Lifestyle
Winner: Dish, Fabulous Fungi, June/July 2013
“An obviously well planned and executed spread using a great combination of text and very high standard of photography."
News & Current Affairs
Winner: New Zealand Geographic,Treasure Islands, July/August 2013
“Typically high standards that we expect from NZ Geographic. A generous twenty pages presented a true visual representation of the subject.”
Most Effective Commercial Use of Magazines
The entry must demonstrate how magazine brands and their integrated channels achieved success for a client.
Sales Excellence
Winner: Elaine Millar, Fairfax Media
"A fantastic example of a salesperson working closely with her editor to launch a brand new initiative with no certainty of outcome in an incredibly crowded category. An outstanding result: 350 entries and 10 ongoing sponsors while still growing run-of-magazine ad sales."
Highly Commended: Krista Rostenberg, Bauer Media
Most Creative Commercial Use of Magazines
Winner: Telecom, Dynamo & Rip It Up/Groove Guide, #freethemusic
?"A brilliant example of how magazines can partner up with technology in a brutally interactive fashion. When you see this idea you want to try it."
Master Entry Form
All entrants must complete the master entry form before submitting individual category details below.
Judges
Andrew Reinholds
Andrew’s industry experience spans nineteen years, working in local independent and multi-national media agencies along with full service creative agencies. He has worked on a wide range of accounts including Air New Zealand, Fonterra, Frucor, BMW, Sony and Goodman Fielder. For the last four years, OMD has been the most awarded media agency at the CAANZ Media Awards, a big part of which can be put down to Andrew’s passion and tenacity for delivering great work to clients.
More recently he has led an industry panel that has over hauled the New Zealand Media Awards programme to ensure media agencies are encouraged to deliver work which remains both relevant and meaningful to clients. In 2013 he was promoted to Managing Partner at OMD Auckland and also represented as New Zealand’s media jury representative at the Cannes Festival of Creativity.
Cathy Parker
Cathy is the Publisher at Adrenalin Publishing who produce a range of eight business and trade magazines. She started the business in 1992 when she purchased two existing magazines NZWindsurfer and New Zealand Company Vehicle. Cathy has a a degree in Mechanical Engineering (BE(mech) Hons) and a background in the engineering and automotive industries.
Chris Schofield
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Chris Schofield is an advertising creative dedicated to the pursuit of original ideas, effective ads and happy clients. After a brief stint as a professional skateboarder in the 90’s, Chris moved on to the equally as rad but more physically taxing world of creative advertising. He is now a Creative Director, at DDB Auckland
Clare O’Higgins
Claire O’Higgins has been a media executive for 20 plus years. Her career has spanned research, sales, marketing management and corporate with experience at APN, Fairfax Media and independent magazine publishers.
More recently she is the CEO of the non for profit charity Look Good Feel Better.
Greg Brookes
Greg Brookes from Brookes Photography has been working as a professional photographer for over 20 years. His speciality is Commercial and Advertising Photography. Greg is based in a central Auckland studio where he undertakes commissioned photography for brands such as Coca Cola, Auckland Transport, Lion Breweries, Domani, Goodman Fielder and Alluvium Jewellery.
Hannah Peters
Based in Auckland, NZ, Hannah Peters is a staff sports photographer for Getty Images specializing in winter sports, paralympic sports and multisport competitions. She first realised her passion for photography while at St. Cuthbert’s College in Auckland, where she studied photography. Since discovering that she could combine her two favorite hobbies – sports and photography– together as a career, Hannah has never looked back. Following her graduation in 2001, Hannah began working as a sports photographer for Photosport Ltd until 2007, when she became a freelance photographer for Getty Images. In 2010, Hannah joined the Getty Images team as a full-time photographer.
During her career, Hannah has covered sporting events worldwide including the London Olympic Games, both summer and winter Paralympic Games, World Rowing Championships, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games in Guangzhou and the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Her work has garnered her several awards including honours from PANPA, NZ Soccer Association, Canon Media Awards and the TP McLean National Sports Journalism Awards.
Hannah’s imagery has been featured in leading media publications and outlets such as The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, NZ Herald, BBC, TIME Magazine, Fairfax Magazines and Newspapers, among others. In addition, she has worked on several editorial and commercial assignments for Grazia Magazine,Fairfax Media, APN, NZ Rugby Union, Australian Netball, NZ Winter Games and Tourism NZ.
Hayley McLarin
Hayley McLarin has a strong journalism and publishing pedigree – having worked for major media outlets both in New Zealand and the UK. Herself an award-winner, Hayley was an editor-in-chief of a portfolio of national magazines whilst also editing the weekly title New Idea. Prior to that she was a writer for Woman's Day and national newspapers including the Daily Mirror in London and the Sunday Star Times in New Zealand.
Josh Moore
Josh's 15 year career has spanned both sides of the Tasman working on many of the region’s biggest global and national brands. For the last 2.5 years Josh has been at the helm of Y&RNZ which today boasts one of the best management teams in the country and as a result a rapidly expanding and diverse client base.
Kim Mundell
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Kim Mundell has 20 years’ experience in magazines and newspapers. Prior to selling her shareholding in 2011, Kim was owner and co-founder of Healthy Life Media, the publisher of Healthy Food Guide magazine and event director for the Gluten Free Food & Allergy Show. Kim is currently enjoying a change of scenery in the IT sector with her new role as CEO of Health Informatics NZ. In her spare time Kim keeps her hand in publishing as editor for Coeliac Link magazine (for Coeliac NZ) and Revolve magazine (for the Waste Management Institute).
Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley specialises in Commercial, Food, Editorial and Sports photography, working for a wide range of corporate clients and sporting organisations including the ANZ Bank Ltd, SKYCITY, Foodstuffs, The Edge, Netball New Zealand and is also a contract photographer for Fairfax Media. Michael is primarily a location photographer whose strength is working closely with his clients to achieve the results they require whose strength is working closely with his clients to achieve the results they require.
Nicky Greville
Nicky has 13 years of agency experience working across a multitude of categories including FMCG, Automotive, Telecommunications, Lotteries, Insurance & Banking, Entertainment and Travel & Tourism. Nicky is currently the GM of Media at Y&R / MEC NZ and has also worked in a strategic planning capacity across media, digital and PR/activation disciplines. Nicky believes that great strategic thinking lies at the heart of creative and efficient channel planning and that the integrated model of agencies ensures that the message and medium are inherently linked from idea inception through to consumer experience.
Nigel Douglas
Nigel is the Managing Director at MediaCom. He has spent 10 years working in the media and more than 15 in agencies. He flicks through all the mag comps that cross his desk but subscribes to MensHealth in the hope that the mere notion of reading the mag will result in a chiselled six pack.
Peter Vegas
Peter been practicing the dark arts of advertising for 24 years and has spent much of that time wondering why bios are written in the 3rd person. Peter's notable achievements (stuff his mum brags about) include getting a penguin to waterski to sell chips, a cat to swim underwater to sell the internet and three dogs to drive a mini. He has also mastered the skill of using per diems to pay for his tattos.
Reg Birchfied
Reg Birchfied began his working life as a cadet journalist at Wellington's The Dominion newspaper in 1963. He worked as a journalist in Australia and Britain in the 60s before returning to The Dominion as its industrial reporter in 1967. He served a stint in the Press Gallery before joining the Sunday Times. Birchfield co-founded Fourth Estate Holdings in 1971 to publish National Business Review. He was variously Fourth Estate's and NBR's managing editor, publisher and chief executive until November 1983.
Birchfield established professional and trade magazine publisher, Profile Publishing, in 1984. He took Profile into the 3Media Group in 2007 which ended up in receivership in 2009. He now freelances and consults drawing on the management, leadership and governance lessons 3media’s failure taught him. Birchfield is a life member of the Magazine Publishers' Association of which he was a founding director and long-time board member. He picked up the Qantas Media Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Print Media in 1999.
Sharon Davis
Sharon Davis is an award-winning freelance writer, contract editor and magazine writing tutor. Over the past 16 years has freelanced for more than 30 publications in NZ and overseas. Publishing credits include In Focus magazine, NZ Investor, Older & Bolder, The Mortgage Magazine and NZ Management in addition to writing for business and corporate clients. She has a commerce degree, a caffeine addiction, and can tend towards OCD when it comes to grammar.
Simon Teagle
GM Media Client Services – FCB Media. Has had 20 years media experience across a variety of categories, brands and retail clients; working at DDB, Starcom and now FCB Media. A recent highlight was being the team lead on the Noel Leeming ‘People Stories’ campaign which won Best in Show at the 2014 Beacon Awards.
Steve Hart
Steve Hart is a freelance editor and journalist working for some of the country’s leading publishers from his Auckland base. Steve has been involved in building websites, shooting and editing video, as well as producing audio podcasts. In the UK he worked for regional newspapers, the BBC and commercial radio. He spent seven years at the New Zealand Herald and has been freelancing since 2007.
Tania Greig
Tania was the founder, publisher and editor of Fitness Life magazine; which was NZ’s best-selling health and fitness magazine until she sold it after ten years in 2012. As the driving force behind the magazine, Tania was responsible for the editorial direction, design, production and marketing. She was also business manager for the three key revenue streams: advertising, retail and subscriptions. In addition to becoming the first NZ bi-monthly niche title to be ranged throughout Woolworths Australia in a highly competitive market, Tania achieved several accolades for Fitness Life including a Gold Medal Award at the Pride in Print Awards and a Gold Award at the Australasian Promotional Products Association Pyramid Awards. She is now a freelance consultant and has since worked on several projects in the magazine and media industry. As a subsidiary to the magazine, Tania also developed and ran the Fitness Life Awards from 2005-2009 before selling the black tie event to Fitness NZ.
Vincent Heeringa
Vincent Heeringa is a director of Tangible Media, whose love affair with magazines started at secondary school when he launched his own youth title in Upper Hutt. It didn’t last. But the passion remains.
