Celebrating the best of British editors, the awards categories have been shaken up to better represent the ever increasing diversity of print titles in the market and allowing brands to be judged within their competitive set, says the BSME.
The committee has also increased the number of award categories and removed the publication frequencies of titles.
The society is also championing gender neutrality – gone are the traditional Men's and Women's categories – now it's about titles going head-to-head in their genre to discover who’s the best. So, premium style brands like GQ will fight it out with Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar while mass market titles like Shortlist could be judged against Woman magazine.
Specialist titles like Car will be judged against the likes of Classic Cars and Auto Express and there’s an array of new categories including Technology, Craft & Hobbies, Travel, Health & Fitness and Food & Drink.
An additional part of the refresh includes a change in both the entry process and judging. From now on, the Awards will be both shortlisted and finally judged by the BSME committee, not external judges as we have done in previous years.
BSME chair Catherine Westwood says: "The BSME committee is now representative of such a wide range of editors of a diverse set of publications, we believe we have the required in-house expertise to pick the winners. So editors will wholly judge this year’s awards for the very first time – but rest assured, no BSME committee member will be allowed to judge their own entries to avoid conflict of interests. Editors should judge as they are the best judges!"
Categories for 2017:
EDITOR OF THE YEAR
* NEW* TRADE & PROFESSIONAL
* NEW* CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS
BUSINESS & FINANCE
* NEW* ARTS & LITERARY
* NEW* CRAFT & HOBBIES
* NEW* FOOD & DRINK
* NEW* GARDENS & COUNTRY
* NEW* STYLE
* NEW* HOMES & INTERIORS
* NEW* HEALTH & FITNESS
* NEW* TRAVEL
* NEW* MEN’S & WOMEN’S – MASS MARKET
* NEW* MEN’S & WOMEN’S - PREMIUM
* NEW* MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITY
* NEW* MOTORING
* NEW* SPORT
* NEW* TECHNOLOGY
* NEW* SPECIALIST
BRANDED CONTENT
NEWSPAPER MAGAZINES
* NEW* REGIONAL MAGAZINES
ART DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
B2B
Consumer
Branded Content
LAUNCH OF THE YEAR (including content based Brand Extensions in their first year)
COVER OF THE YEAR
B2B
Consumer
EDITORS’ EDITOR OF THE YEAR
You can nominate the editor you most admire for the 2017 BSME Editors’ Editor of the Year – it’s free to vote!
MARK BOXER AWARD
The closing date for entries is Wednesday, 26 July. The Awards Dinner will be held on Tuesday, 21 November at The Park Lane Hotel on Piccadilly.
