Bauer Media Group Gets the Scoop at the Canon Media Awards

Bauer Media Group Gets the Scoop at the Canon Media Awards

SATURDAY MAY 21st 2016

Bauer Media Group has secured a slew of prestigious awards at the 2016 Canon Media Awards presented last night in Wellington.

North & South, The Listener and Metro have validated their commitment to investigative journalism with a host of wins in the Magazine Feature Writing category.

Rebecca Macfie took home several major accolades during the evening, including Feature Writing for Politics and Feature Writing for Health, as well as the major individual award – the Wolfson Press Fellowship to Cambridge.

The judges described Macfie’s collection of award-winning features as ‘superb’ and ‘inspirational’. By winning the Fellowship, Macfie will travel to Cambridge University for 10 weeks to research a project of her choosing.

North & South senior writer Mike White won the coveted Magazine Feature Writer of the Year award, coupled with the Crime and Justice Feature award for his work on the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.

Highly regarded journalist for The Listener and North & South, Donna Chisholm, also took home several prestigious awards on the night. They included the inaugural nib Health Journalism Scholarship – senior category, recognising excellence in health journalism and the Feature award for Science and Technology for her piece on “Foetal Screening”.

The judges expressed that Chisholm’s research proposal on Pharmac and the affordability of medicine “stood out as one of profound significance and timeliness to New Zealand”.

The Scholarship will see Chisholm travel to the United States, as well as the Scandinavian headquarters of some of the world’s largest drug companies to investigate why new treatments cost so much.

Continuing the successful streak in the Feature Writer category, Metro’s Naomi Arnold and Peter Malcouronne took home the awards for best Lifestyle and Sport features respectively.

Excitingly, the major award for Magazine of the Year was presented to Home.

The judges commented that Home “stood out for its editorial cohesion, attention to quality and detail, innovative design and genuine multi-media strategy”.

The Listener and Metro also wowed the judges in the Opinion Writing category, with wins for Simon Wilson for Reviewer of the Year (Metro), Jane Clifton for best Opinion Writer for Politics (The Listener) and Paul Thomas taking the award for Opinion Writer for Sport (The Listener).

Best Magazine Design was awarded to Micheal Hanly and Carolyn Lewis of Metro with the judges noting that “when a magazine cover makes you take a sharp intake of breath of admiration, you know you’ve found a winner”.

Paul Dykzeul, CEO of Bauer Media Group, was ecstatic with the wins, “I'm immensely proud of our achievements at the prestigious Canon awards”.

“At Bauer Media we have always had a passionate focus on quality journalism and the critical role it plays in New Zealand society”, Dykzeul said. “This passion is shared by our editors and all our very talented teams. As we clearly face uncertain times in print journalism, Bauer's passion and commitment to journalism will continue to grow”.

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