There were big wins for a trio of the magazine industry’s most influential and respected women editors at last night’s PPA awards.
Lindsay Nicholson’s Good Housekeeping took the prize for consumer magazine of the year; Susy Smith’s Country Living was consumer lifestyle magazine of the year and the Radio Times’s Gill Hudson was crowned consumer editor of the year.
Hudson, described as an “inspired and inspiring editor”, has transformed a national institution into a ground-breaking, compelling and easy-to-use title, while increasing sales and readership, the judges said.
Nicholson’s Good Housekeeping “sustained quality and growth in the face of competition due to its bravery, integrity and heritage” and is still evolving to fit its audience. Nicholson, now editorial director at NatMags, recently handed over the reins to Louise Chunn. Smith’s Country Living, meanwhile, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2005 and built on its reputation as a campaigning title with its tenth consecutive period-on-period ABC sales growth.
The winners in full:
Consumer magazine of the year: Good Housekeeping
Weekly business magazine of the year: Farmers Weekly
Monthly business magazine of the year: Chemistry World
Customer magazine of the year: Waitrose Food Illustrated
Consumer specialist magazine of the year: Kerrang!
Consumer lifestyle: magazine of the year: Country Living
Interactive consumer magazine of the year: Newscientist.com
Interactive business magazine of the year: personneltoday.com
International consumer magazine of the year: T3
International business magazine of the year: Strategic Risk
Consumer publisher of the year: Adam Wadell, Top Gear
Business publisher of the year: Debra Doran, Mobile
Consumer editor of the year: Radio Times
Business editor of the year: Isabel Allen, The Architects’ Journal
Consumer writer of the year: Alex Bilmes, GQ
Business writer of the year: Charles Orton-Jones, Real Business
Consumer designer of the year: Suzanne Sykes, Grazia
Business designer of the year: Sarah Douglas, The Architects’ Journal
Small publisher of the year: Debra Doran, Mobile
Editorial campaign of the year: Yachting Monthly
Specialist writer of the year: Julian Keeling, Esquire
Business columnist of the year: Phil Peverley, Pulse
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