Johnstone (pictured with Jim Douglas, Editorial Director & Director of Sport, Outdoor and Automotive, at Future (left of pic) and host Alun Cochrane) was handed the Grand Prix 2012 at a ceremony at The Brewery on February 1. He was earlier named New Business Features Journalist of the Year.
Formerly the PTC New Journalist of the Year Awards, the event has been expanded for 2012 to reflect the range of roles across the publishing sector.
Immediate Media Co, the company recently formed from the amalgamation of BBC Magazines, Origin Publishing and Magicalia, was the biggest winner on the night, taking home three awards: New Publisher of the Year (Martin Stahel); News Consumer Specialist/Customer Journalist of the Year (Louise Ridley); and New Marketing Executive of the Year (Caroline Motson).
ShortList.com’s Tom Cullen scooped the New Editor of the Year Award while colleague Amy Grier from ShortList Media stablemate Stylist was named New Consumer Journalist of the Year.
There were also wins for Bauer Media, Hearst Magazines UK, IPC Media, JLD Media, Newsquest Specialist Media, Ocean Media Group, and UBM Medica.
Stacey Bartlett of the University of Central Lancashire was named Most Promising Undergraduate Student Journalist of the Year while Rakesh Ramchurn from City University, London claimed the Postgraduate category.
Loraine Davies, director of the Periodicals Training Council (PTC), said: “The PTC does a great deal of work to support and encourage the talent that makes our sector such a success, and this year’s awards are a real celebration of the variety of people and range of skills that make publishing a core part of the UK’s creative industries.
“Our congratulations to all the winners, and also to those shortlisted and highly commended, for their achievements.”
The event was sponsored by ABC, Anderson Norton Design (and.), Circdata, Dennis Publishing, Dovetail, Future Publishing, Haymarket, Pensord, Polestar UK Print, Print Power, Swiss Post, UBM Built Environment, UPM, and YUDU Media.
Winners of the PTC New Talent Awards 2012
Grand Prix 2012
Nick Johnstone, Property Week, United Business Media
New Publisher of the Year
Martin Stahel, Immediate Media Co.
New Ad Manager of the Year
Ossie Bayram, Hearst Magazines UK
New Business News Journalist of the Year
Carl Brown, Inside Housing, Ocean Media Group
New Business Features Journalist of the Year
Nick Johnstone, Property Week, United Business Media
New Editor of the Year
Tom Cullen, ShortList Media
New Consumer Specialist/Customer Journalist of the Year
Louise Ridley, Immediate Media Co.
New Designer of the Year
Elliott Web, Q Magazine, Bauer Media
New Consumer Journalist of the Year
Amy Grier, ShortList Media
New Sales Executive of the Year
Courtney Maggs-Jones, JLD Media
New Classified Sales Executive of the Year
Sereena Gill, IPC Media
New Section Editor of the Year
Zoe Smeaton, Chemist+Druggist, UBM Medica
New Marketing Executive of the Year
Caroline Motson, Immediate Media Co
New Direct Marketing Executive of the Year
Elizabeth Telford, Newsquest Special Media
Most Promising Student Journalist of the Year (Undergraduate)
Stacey Bartlett, the University of Central Lancashire
Most Promising Student Journalist of the Year (Postgraduate)
Rakesh Ramchurn, City University, London
For more information, and pictures of the awards ceremony, visit the New Talent Awards website.
