Cottage Life and explore Win Three Gold and Five Silver at the National Magazine Awards
June 6, 2008 TORONTO, ON: Cottage Life magazine and explore magazine are delighted to announce that they won three gold and five silver awards this evening at the presentation of the National Magazine Awards (NMAs).
“This is a great evening for Quarto Communications. What a success that our two publications, Cottage Life and explore, published just six times per year, won a combined three gold and five silver awards this evening,” said Publisher Al Zikovitz. “These awards are a testament to the quality of each and every issue and we will continue to provide the readers of both explore and Cottage Life with two of the best magazines in Canada.”
The NMAs are handed out each year in June. The 2008 Awards were presented on June 6, 2008. Prizes are handed out to magazines across Canada in various written, visual, and integrated categories.
About explore magazine
Founded in 1981, explore is the award-winning national lifestyle magazine that delivers the information and inspiration that active outdoor-loving Canadians want—or more accurately, can’t do without.
In the past seven years, explore has been named Best Magazine of the Year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors three times. It's also been nominated for 103 National Magazine Awards, winning 11 Gold awards and 14 Silver awards. In 2006, to celebrate our 25th anniversary, we published Way Out There, an anthology of some of the best writing to appear in the magazine.
In the fall of 2005, explore was pleased to become the first glossy magazine in North America to publish on Ancient Forest Friendly, Forest Stewardship Council-certified, 100 per cent post-consumer recycled paper.
About Cottage Life magazine
Cottage Life’s goal is to enhance and preserve the quality of cottage living. The magazine is full of tips and ideas to make time at the lake not only easier, but more fun. Since its first issue in 1988 it has won more than 100 awards and been named Magazine of the Year by the National Magazine Awards Foundation, the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, and the International Regional Magazine Association. At the National Magazine Awards, it has been nominated for 109 awards, winning 13 Gold awards and 22 Silver awards. Editor Penny Caldwell was named Editor of the Year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors in 2006.
The magazine is printed on 100 per cent recycled paper that is Forest Stewardship Council-certified and recently launched the Green Cottager Awards, a program to recognize individuals and groups who have taken special care to protect and preserve our precious lakeside environment.
About the National Magazine Awards
From more than 2,100 individual entries nationwide, the NMA’s 200 judges nominated a total of 303 submissions in 76 different Canadian magazines for awards in 39 categories.
Cottage Life magazine was nominated for eight awards and explore magazine was nominated for a total of 14 awards.
>> Complete list of award recipients
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