Canadian Business Media (CBM) has announced the winners of its 62nd Annual CBM Awards in memory of Kenneth R. Wilson for Canadian business-to-business (B2B) magazine publishing. The judges nominated 141 submissions from 36 different B2B magazines. Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention Awards were presented in 21 written, visual, integrated and special categories during this evening’s gala that was held June 7 at the Grand Banking Hall in Toronto, hosted by D.B. Scott, President of Impresa Communications.
The Harvey Southam Award was presented to Michel Dongois, Senior Journalist at Profession Santé. He was recognized for his outstanding professionalism, integrity and humanitarianism. The winner of the 2016 CBM Award for Magazine of the Year was Marketing, published by Rogers Media and headed by Alison Wood (Publisher), David Thomas (Editor) and Glenn Taylor (Art Director). Marketing also won Silver in Best Regularly Featured Department, Column or Blog. It also received four Honourable Mentions in Best Issue, Best Art Direction of an Opening Spread, Best Art Direction of an Entire Issue, and Best Merchandising/Marketing Article.
Best Media Brand
The winner of the 2016 CBM Award for Best Media Brand was Precedent, published by Law & Style Media and headed by Melissa Kluger (Editor & Publisher), Gilbert Li (Art Director), and Daniel Fish and Lauren Parrott (regular contributors). Precedent also won Gold in Best Art Direction of a Complete Issue, and two Silver in Best Art Direction of a Complete Issue, and Best Art Direction of an Opening Spread or Feature. It also received three Honourable Mentions in Best Feature Article – Professional, Best How-To Article of Series of How-To Articles, and Best One-Of-A-Kind. Also winning Silver was D&A Magazine, BC Business, FranchiseCanada, Lexpert, Canadian Architect, Better Farming, Les Affaires and Listed.
Award highlights
The magazine with the most Gold wins was University Affairs, which won Gold for Best Issue, Best Cover, Best Photograph and Best Art Direction of an Opening Spread or Complete Feature. Ranking second was CPA Magazine with three Golds in Best How-To or Series of How-To Articles, Best Profile of a Company and Best Infrastructure/Resource Article. The magazine also won three Silver awards in Best How-To Article or Series of How-To Articles, Best One-Of-A-Kind Article and Best Profile of a Company, and earned an impressive 19 honourable mentions in written, visual and integrated categories.
Winning both Gold and Silver in the Best Marketing/Merchandising Article category was Canadian Grocer. CPA Magazine took the Gold and Silver awards in both the Best How-To Article or Series of How-To Articles and Best Profile of a Company categories. Precedent took home both the Gold and Silver awards in Best Art Direction of a Complete Issue. This year there were three categories that tied for Silver: Best One-Of-A-Kind Article, Best Regularly Feature Department or Column and Best Profile of a Person. In individual awards, writer Trish Snyder earned two Silver awards for works published in Professionally Speaking. In addition, three of her pieces received an Honourable Mention in the category of Best Profile of a Person. In the visual categories, Gilbert Li and Alina Skyson took home three awards for Art Direction in Precedent. To view all of this year’s winners as well as the sponsors, partners and judges, please visit www.krwawards.ca.
About the CBM Awards in memory of Kenneth R. Wilson
The 62nd annual CBM Awards in memory of Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW), was produced by the Canadian Business Media Association (CBM). Sponsors included Brainmetal, Canada Post, Canadian Business Media, CNW Group and Impresa Communications. New this year, the gala served as a unique professional development opportunity to the industry professionals who attended. Guests were offered an enhanced perspective of the process it takes to create award-winning editorial content.
Throughout the evening, winners in various categories answered questions about their work and how they realized it, to help attendees understand what it takes to create award-winning content in business media. Feedback from the jury about the award-winning work was shown on-screen during the gala. With the goal of sharing this knowledge and as an effort to strengthen the B2B publishing community, a webinar and a guide will subsequently be made available at no cost. Canadian Business Media acknowledged the support of the Government of Canada for this important project. Finally, the CBM Awards recognizes the outstanding efforts of Canadian business-to-business magazine content. Through this annual award program, the organization pays tribute to the memory of Kenneth R. Wilson, one of Canada’s most prominent business writers.
Canadian Business Media Award winners named
