Winners - 2020 Webstar Magazine Media Awards
HOW GOOD WAS THAT?
Congratulations to all our Webstar Magazine Media Award winners – their stories speak volumes about the creativity and resilience of our industry.
Click here to see our winners gallery
The full list of winners is also printed below.
And, finally, thank you to everyone who made the awards possible: to our entrants and ticket holders; our wonderful sponsors, especially Webstar, and the whole events team.
SUPREME MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
Winner: dish
Finalists: NZ Geographic, EG
SUPREME MAGAZINE ADVERTISER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Resene
HC: Fisher & Paykel
Finalists: APL, Ford
PEOPLE’S CHOICE MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
Winner: dish
Finalists: NZ Life &Leisure; Motorhomes, Caravans & Destinations
WEBSTAR BEST MAGAZINE
Consumer, special interest, current affairs & business
Winner: NZ Geographic
HC: Wilderness
Finalists: 66 Magazine, NZBusiness + Management
Home, food & lifestyle (including mass market)
Winner: dish
HC: Homestyle
Finalists: NZ House & Garden, NZ Gardener
Trade
Winner: EG
HC: NZ Dairy Exporter
Finalists: Build, CountryWide
BEST COVER
Consumer, special interest, current affairs, business & trade
Winner: NZ Hunter
HC: NZ Lifestyle Block
Finalists: NZ Geographic, NZ Horse & Pony
Home, food & lifestyle
Winner: Here
HC: Kiwi Gardener
Finalist: Good
Non-newsstand
Winner: Country-Wide Beef
HC: SheEO
BEST JOURNALIST
Consumer, special interest, current affairs, business & trade
Winner: Sally Blundell, NZ Listener
Finalists: Kate Evans, NZ Geographic; Rebecca Hayter, North & South and EG magazine; Zahra Shahtahmasebi, NZ Doctor
Home, food & lifestyle (including mass market)
Winner: Mei Leng Wong, NZ Gardener
HC: Emma Rawson, NZ Life & Leisure
NZ POST BEST EDITOR
Winner: Alistair Hall, Wilderness
HC: Emma Rawson, This NZ Life
Finalists: Kelli Brett, Cuisine; Claire Smith, Motorhomes, Caravans & Destinations.
BEST COLUMNIST/BLOGGER
Winner: Rebecca Hayter, North & South
HC: Lucy Corry, This NZ Life
HC Melody Thomas, Capital
BEST COVID RESPONSE
Winner: HERE magazine
HC: Life & Leisure
HC: Shepherdess
BEST DESIGNER/DESIGN TEAM
Winner: Shalee Fitzsimmons, Capital magazine
HC: Juliette Wanty, Homestyle
Finalist: Yolanta Woldendorp, Lifestyle Magazines; Sarah Jayne Shaw, Shepherdess
BEST DIGITAL BRAND
Winner: This NZ Life
HC: Capsule
BEST SALES/MARKETING SOLUTION
Winner: Good magazine and TiOra
HC: Motorhomes, Caravans and Destinations and the Covi SuperShow collaboration
Finalist: Good magazine and Best of Naturals
MOST VALUABLE TEAM MEMBER
Winner: Justine Jamieson, Good magazine
Finalists: Monique Bulman. ICG media; Cathy Kettell, Eye Magazine and Chinese Eye Magazine
- SUPREME MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
- SUPREME MAGAZINE ADVERTISER OF THE YEAR
- PEOPLE’S CHOICE MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
- WEBSTAR BEST MAGAZINE
- BEST COVER
- BEST JOURNALIST
- NZ POST BEST EDITOR
- BEST COLUMNIST/BLOGGER
- BEST COVID RESPONSE
- BEST DESIGNER/DESIGN TEAM
- BEST DIGITAL BRAND
- BEST SALES/MARKETING SOLUTION
- MOST VALUABLE TEAM MEMBER