ACP Magazines Score Multiple Wins At Qantas Awards

Media release, May 18 2009

North & South Wins Newsstand Magazine Of The Year 2009
ACP Magazines Score Multiple Wins At Qantas Media Awards

ACP Magazines enjoyed spectacular success in the 2009 Qantas Media Awards, announced on Friday night.

North & South was named Newsstand Magazine of the Year 2009. The judges commended its journalistic excellence and editorial integrity, also its role as a mirror on New Zealand life.

North & South senior writer Mike White won the Device Technologies Award with his Technology & Science category winning story “The Mayor, the Problem Pigs and the Medical Miracle”; North & South contributing writer Steve Braunias won the magazine feature writing Entertainment category with “Country and Eastern”; contributing writer Peter Malcouronne won the Sports category with “Brotherhood of Battlers”; and columnist Margo White won Best Health, Medicine & Fitness column for her piece “About Face”.

Metro staff writer Frances Morton scooped two magazine feature awards: she won the Local Government category with her story “Coney Island”; and she won the Pacific Cooperation Foundation Award with her Pacific Islands Issues winning story “Low Wages, High Hopes”. Metro columnist Charlotte Grimshaw won the General category award for her column “Room for Speculation”. Metro’s former assistant editor Jan Corbett was a finalist in the Senior Magazine Feature Writer awards.

Next columnist Helen Brown was named Overall Winner, Columnist, for her moving series of columns in the form of a diary of her diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent treatment and recovery.

CEO Paul Dykzeul said “ACP Magazines’ success at the 2009 Qantas Awards reflected our company’s commitment to quality journalism. We are very passionate about publishing magazines that provide a vehicle for great writing and brave journalism.”

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