42nd annual PICA Awards winners announced

Once again, Media24 and it subsidiaries - especially Taste magazine, for which being crowned Customer Magazine of the Year was its third consecutive win - showed their dominance.

All the winners

Best Consumer Magazine - Rossi Trophy
Winner: Elle, Avusa Media
Highly commended: Weg!/Go!, Media 24 Lifestyle
Highly commended: Sarie, Media24 Women's Interest

Best B2B Magazine - Watling Trophy
Winner: RiskSA, Cosa Communications
Highly commended: AdVantage, Media24 Business & Custom
Highly commended: Leadership, Cape Media Corporation

Best Customer Magazine
Winner: Taste, New Media
Highly commended: The Arch, Quantum Publishing
Highly commended: Privé, New Media

Consumer Editor of the Year - Jane Raphaely Trophy
Winner: Jackie Burger, Elle, Avusa Media
Highly commended: Michelle van Breda, Sarie, Media24 Women's Interest
Highly commended: Toby Shapshak, Stuff, Avusa

B2B Editor of the Year
Winner: Peta Krost-Maunder, Wits Business Review, Wits Business School Journal, Contact Media & Communications
Highly commended: Robbie Stammers, Leadership, Cape Media Corporation
Highly commended: Louise Marsland, AdVantage, Media24 Business & Custom

Customer Editor of the Year
Winner: Sumien Brink, Woolworths Taste, New Media
Highly commended: Justine Drake, Fresh Living, John Brown
Highly commended: Colin Collard, Good Taste

Consumer Overall Magazine Design of the Year
Winner: Fairlady, Media 24 Women's Interest
Highly commended: National Geographic Kids,
Highly commended: Elle, Avusa

B2B Overall Magazine Design of the Year
Winner: Leadership, Cape Media Corporation
Highly commended: AdVantage, Media24 Business & Custom
Highly commended: Civil Engineering, South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE)

Customer Overall Magazine Design of the Year
Winner: Woolworths Taste, New Media
Highly commended: Privé Summer 2010, New Media
Highly commended: The Arch Autumn 2011, Quantum Publishing

Consumer Cover of the Year
Winner: Visi April/May 2011, New Media
Highly commended: Woman & Home May 2011, Caxton Magazines
Highly commended: Your Pregnancy June 2011, Media24 Women's Interest

B2B Cover of the Year
Winner: Dairy Mail February 2011, Agri Connect
Highly commended: Inside Mining, 3S Media
Highly commended: AdVantage, Media24 Business & Custom

Customer Cover of the Year
Winner: Woolworths Taste, January/February 2011, New Media
Highly commended: Privé Summer 2011, New Media
Highly commended: The Arch Autumn 2011, Quantum Publishing

Annual Supplement of the Year
Winner: AdVantage Transit Media Guide, Media24 Business & Customer
Special award: Sarie Kos, Woon, Kreatief and Gesond, Media24 Women's Interest

Launch or Relaunch of the Year - Phillip Tyler Trophy
Winner: Sarie Gesond, Media24 Women's Interest
Highly commended: Nubian Bride, Ballyhoo Media
Highly commended: Plascon Spaces, New Media

Best Online Solution:
Winner: www.tastemag.co.za, New Media
Highly commended: www.sarie.com, Media24 Women's Interest
Highly commended: www.seventeen.co.za, Media24 Women's Interest

Best Tie-in with Integrated Marketing
Winner: Woolworths Taste, New Media
Highly commended: Fresh Living, JohnBrown
Highly commended: Wild, TiP Publishing

Columnist of the Year
Winner: Sipho Hlongwane, Dogs of War, The Big Issue
Highly commended: Daryl Ilbury, A Real Leadership Battle, Leadership
Highly commended: Sven Hugo, Agter die golf aan, Weg!/Go!
Merit: JP Van Niekerk, Time to decriminalise drugs, SAMJ

Feature Writer of the Year
Winner: Angus Powers, The Survivor, Sports Illustrated
Highly commended: Melissa Sibert, Captured in Mokala, Wild
Highly commended: Alex Eliseev, Dead Man Driving, Men's Health

Health & Wellness Writer of the Year
Winner: Mark van Dijk, Inconceivable, Men's Health
Highly commended: Charis Labuschange, Die Groot K in my stamboom, Sarie Gesond
Highly commended: Arthur Jones, 89.28KM, Men's Health

Non-Professional Writer of the Year
Winner: Mike Marsden, Resolving Cape Town's Public Transport Crisis, IMESA
Highly commended: Jeremy Saville, Zig Zag
Highly commended: Nick Plewman, Visi
Highly commended: Mosa'ab ElShamy, FHM

Profile Writer of the Year
Winner: Erns Grunding, Smooth Operator, Weg!/Go!

Public Interest Writer of the Year
Winner: Salome Delport, Ritalin se Nuwe (Onwettige) Gebruike, Rooi Rose
Highly commended: Halther Dugmore, Karoo Unites against Shell, Farmers Weekly
Highly commended: Michael Burgess, 'I'm proud to be a commercial farmer', Farmer's Weekly

Trade & Technical Writer of the Year
Winner: Irma Venter, Fast Forward, Engineering News
Highly commended: Fidelis Zvomuya, Dairy Mail
Highly commended: Terry Deacon, The Project Manager
Highly commended: Anthony Doman, Popular Mechanics

Travel Writer of the Year
Winner: Toast Coetzee, Namibia: There's Life in the Empty corner, Weg!/Go!
Highly commended: Erns Grundeling, The Kalahari July, Weg!/Go!
Highly commended: Jeremy Saville, Trading Places: Living the Bitter Sweet Dream on Reunion Island, Zig Zag

Visual Production of the Year
Winner: Vicki De Beer, Dis Kersfees, Rooi Rose
Highly commended: Anton Sassenberg, Poppy Evans, Big Match Temperament, Elle
Highly commended: David Hutt, Aubrey Jonsson & Annalie Boshoff, Make a Wish, The Arch

Photojournalism of the Year
Winner: Ruvan Boshoff and Le Roux Schoeman, Hoeked on Snoek, Weg!/Go!
Highly commended: Noeleen Foster, The Truth About the Terrible Twos, Your Baby & Toddler
Highly commended: TJ Lemon & Tumi Sibambo, The Swankers, Joburg Style

Layout of the Year
Winner: Anton Sassenberg, Colour, Elle
Highly commended: Jocelyn Warrington, Boxing Clever, Woolworths Taste
Highly commended: Tariq Cassiem, Baring her soul, BBQ

Says PICA 2011 chairperson Danielle Weakley, "We are thrilled that both well-known names and bylines were awarded kudos, along with new up and coming young talents. Congratulations to all the winners - competition was stiff this year, [as well a] 25% increase on submissions, and winners had to work really hard to be ahead of the pack."

MC for the night was comedian Nik Rabinowitz, who kept the audience in stitches with his running gags. What was rather odd was that very few of the individual winners appeared to be there in person to collect their awards, and these awards were mostly collected by proxy.

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