SARIE magazine was a big winner at this year’s PICA awards with editor Michelle van Breda taking the title of the Jane Raphaely Consumer Editor of the Year once more, and the magazine winning the Rossi Trophy for Consumer Magazine of the Year. It also won Non Professional Writer of the Year with Annerie du Plooy winning the award for Ter Gedagtenis aan Henk. Brand extensions SARIE FOOD and SARIE KOS came out tops in the Annuals, Directories, Product Guides and Special Editions awards. SARIE KOS also won in the Décor, Crafts, Food and Gardening sector.
The other big winner, also taking five awards, was COSA Communications RISKSA. Hanna Barry won Profile Writer of the Year with Leading Lloyd’s for RISKSA in the Business-to-Business category as well as the Professional Services segment. The October 2012 edition took cover of the year in the Business-to-Business category and Andy Marks won Editor of the Year. RISKSA won the Watling Trophy for Business-to-Business Magazine of the Year.
Robbie Stammers, who left Leadership to launch Cape Union Mart’s Intrepid Explorer won Customer Editor of the Year, and Forbes Africa’s Chris Bishop was honoured with the Special Award for Editor.
VISI, relaunched earlier this year, won Consumer Cover of the Year for its innovative do-it-yourself cross-stitch cover that invited readers to do their best to create their own cover.
EDITORIAL PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS:
Columnist of the Year – Consumer:
Adam Cooke – Man to Man: a series of columns – Men’s Health, Media24
Columnist of the Year – Business-to-Business:
Peter Major – Stop Blaming the Past – SA Mining, Times Media
Columnist of the Year – Customer:
Darrel Bristow-Bovey – Home Alone – Fresh Living, John Brown Publishing
Feature Writer of the Year – Consumer
Elizabeth Donaldson – Voices on a Train – Joburg Style, Ballyhoo Media
Feature Writer of the Year – Business-to-Business
A Lost Generation? by Wessel Ebersohn, Kathleen Ebersohn & Mbali Dlamini – Debate, Debate
Feature Writer of the Year – Customer
Janine Stephen – Spot the Dog – High Life, Cedar Communications
Profile Writer of the Year – Consumer
Erns Grundling – Suidwes se Storieman – Weg!, Media24
Profile Writer of the Year – Business-to-Business
Hanna Barry – Leading Lloyd’s – RISKSA, COSA Communications
Profile Writer of the Year – Customer
AJ Opperman – Hulle Noem Haar Liewe Verna – Taalgenoot , ATKV
Health and Wellness Writer of the Year
Gordon Laws – King of the Fat Guys – Men’s Health, Media24
Travel Writer of the Year
Will Bendix – The Alchemy of Gambia – ZigZag, Media24
Non-Professional Writer of the Year – Consumer
Annerie du Plooy – Ter Gedagtenis aan Henk – SARIE, Media24
Non-Professional Writer of the Year – Business-to-Business
Vincent Kuo – The Art of Civil Engineering – South African Institution of Civil Engineering
Non-Professional Writer of the Year – Customer
Michael ’t Sas-Rolfes Hunting Safaris’ Future – Wildlife Ranching, AgriConnect
Designer of the Year (Layout of the Year) – Consumer
Robert Cilliers and Clinton Jurgens – A Bunch of Real Losers – Men’s Health, Media24
Designer (Layout) of the Year – Business-to-Business
Michelle du Pisani – Uncomfortable Familiarity – the Bredasdorp Reality – Debate, Debate
Designer (Layout) of the Year – Customer
Craig Baxter – a series of designs – High Life, Cedar Communications
Photographer / Photojournalist of the Year – Consumer
John Ferraz – The Invisibles – Joburg Style, Ballyhoo Media
Visual Production of the Year – Consumer
Crystal Birch and Jonathan Taylor – Triple Threat – FHM, Media24
Visual Production of the Year – Customer
Tina-Marié Malherbe, Dirk Pieters, Marianne Burke – Fade to Blue – Plascon Spaces, New Media Publishing
OVERALL PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS:
Philip Tyler Trophy – Launch/Relaunch
VISI – New Media Publishing
Youth Market
TOTEM – John Brown Media
Annuals, Directories, Product Guides and Special Editions
SARIE FOOD – SARIE KOS, Media24
Supplements
Boerekos – Landbouweekblad, Media24
Online Solution
www.sarie.com – (SARIE), Media24
360 Degrees of Innovation
LEGiT, The Publishing Partnership
CUSTOMER PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS:
Retail & Consumer Goods
Woolworths TASTE – New Media Publishing
Leisure & Lifestyle
Private Edition – The Publishing Partnership
Education, Health, Conservation, Safety and Security
Wild – TIP Africa Publishing
Financial and Other Professional Services
JSE – Highbury Safika Media
Customer Cover of the Year
High Life (May 2013 Cover), Cedar Communications
BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS:
Professional Services
RISKSA – COSA Communications
Essential Services
Sea Rescue – The Publishing Partnership
Resource-Based Industries
The Dairy Mail – AgriConnect
Construction, Engineering and Related Industries
earthworks – Young Africa Publishing
Business-to-Business Cover of the Year
RISKSA – COSA Communications (October 2012)
CONSUMER PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS:
General Interest (Male & Female)
SARIE – Media 24
International General Interest (Male & Female)
Men’s Health – Media24
Special Interest (Male & Female)
Longevity – Aegle Wellness
International Special Interest (Male & Female)
ELLE – Times Media
Décor, Crafts, Food and Gardening
SARIE KOS – Media24
Consumer Cover of the Year
VISI (Issue 64) – New Media Publishing
Consumer Magazine Largely Free Distribution
Joburg Style – Ballyhoo Media
EDITOR OF THE YEAR AWARDS:
Editor of the Year – Customer
Robbie Stammers of The Intrepid Explorer – Insights Publishing
Editor of the Year – Business-to-Business
Andy Marks – RISKSA, COSA Communications
Jane Raphaely Consumer Editor of the Year
Michélle van Breda – SARIE, Media24
Special Award for Editor
Chris Bishop – Forbes Africa, ABN Publishing
MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR AWARDS:
Customer Magazine of the Year
Woolworths TASTE, New Media Publishing
Watling Trophy for Business-to-Business Magazine of the Year
RISKSA – COSA Communications
Rossi Trophy for Consumer Magazine of the Year
SARIE – Media24
