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November 22, 2005updated 22 Nov 2022 5:31pm

Mark Ellen wins top editors’ award

By Press Gazette

The Word editor Mark Ellen won the top Editors’ Editor Award at last
night’s British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) Awards ceremony.

Other winners were:

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Business & professional magazines (non-weekly)
Matthew Gwyther, Management Today (Haymarket Business)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Business & professional magazines (weekly)
Phil Johnson, Pulse (CMPi)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Entertainment magazines
Conor McNicholas, NME (IPC Media)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Contract magazines (business readership)
Tim Hulse, Business Life (Cedar Communications)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Contract magazines (consumer readership)
William Sitwell, Waitrose Food Illustrated
(John Brown Citrus Publishing)

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EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Current affairs magazines
Bill Emmott, The Economist (The Economist Newspaper Ltd)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Lifestyle magazines
Sarah Miller, Conde Nast Traveller (The Conde Nast Publications)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Men’s magazines
Adam Mattera, Attitude (Remnant Media)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Newspaper magazines
Judy McGuire, Sunday Magazine (News International Newspapers)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Special interest magazines
Michael Harvey, BBC Top Gear (BBC Worldwide)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Women’s magazines (non-weekly)
Trish Halpin, Red (Hachette Filipacchi UK)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Women’s magazines (weekly)
Jane Johnson, Closer (EMAP Entertainment)

EDITORS OF THE YEAR
Youth & children’s magazines, comics or fanzines
Lisa Smosarski, Bliss (EMAP Elan)

LAUNCH OF THE YEAR
June Smith-Sheppard, Pick Me Up (IPC Media)

MAGAZINE WEBSITE OF THE YEAR
Damian Carrington, Newscientist.com (RBI)

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
Colin Kennedy, Empire (EMAP East) for the magazine’s Breathing Darth Vader Sound Effects Cover

BRAND BUILDING INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
Marcus Fairs, Icon (Media 10) for The Icon Design Trail, a map-based guide to London design events

THE FIONA MACPHERSON NEW EDITOR AWARD
An award judged by the BSME committee in memory of Fiona Macpherson
Annabel Brog, Sugar (Hachette Filipacchi UK)

THE MARK BOXER AWARD
The
Mark Boxer Award is an award presented to an individual who, in the
opinion of the BSME Committee, has made an outstanding editorial
contribution to magazines in this country.
This year’s award goes to Mark Frith, Heat (EMAP Entertainment)

THE BSME EDITORS’ EDITOR OF THE YEAR AWARD 2005 Voted on by full members of the British Society of Magazine Editors

Mark Ellen Editor, Word (Development Hell)

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