News Corp tops Mumbrella Publish Awards as Taste.com.au crowned Brand of the Year
News Corp has taken home seven Mumbrella Publish Awards with its food website, taste.com.au, being crowned Brand of the Year.
Meanwhile, last year’s Brand of the Year winner, Bauer Media’s Take 5, managed a highly commended in the category.
News Corp also scored awards for Magazine Cover of the Year – Consumer/Custom for Vogue Australia, Event of the Year for Vogue American Express Fashion’s Night Out 2018, Website of the Year – Consumer/Customer for news.com.au, Launch/Relaunch of the Year – Large for The Australian, Consumer Publication of the Year – Large for Stellar, and Columnist of the Year for Joe Hildebrand.
Content agency Medium Rare took home four awards including Designer of the Year for Kate Barnett, Magazine Cover of the Year – Business for Company Director, Editor of the Year – Business for Michelle Endacott, and Customer Publication of the Year for Jetstar Magazine.
Nine also won three awards for Editor of the Year for nine.com.au’s Simon King, Special Edition of the Year for The AFR and, Business Publication of the Year for The AFR.
Bauer Media’s Jane Waterhouse was named Publish Leader of the Year, while The Australian Women’s Weekly’s Genevieve Gannon was crowned Journalist of the Year.
Other publishing houses to score awards were Concrete Playground, Mamamia, Schwartz Media, The Squiz, Robb Report, The Law Society of NSW, Mahlab, Grin Creative, Vice Media, Missprint Media and Hardie Grant Media.
Full list of winners is below:
Best Podcast
The Quicky – Mamamia
HC: It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli – Audible Australia and Marc Fennell – Audible Australia
Best Use of Video
‘If a man lived like a woman for a day’ (International Women’s Day) – Mamamia
HC: SBS Viceland, The Feed, (TV Show and social media channels) – SBS
Single Article Of The Year
Pamela Williams – The Monthly for Schwartz Media
Designer of the Year
Kate Barnett – Creative Director, Company Director – Medium Rare Content Agency
HC: Ivan Chow – Creative Director, The Farmer – Medium Rare Content Agency
Magazine Cover Of The Year – Business
Company Director – Medium Rare Content Agency
Magazine Cover Of The Year – Consumer/Custom
VOGUE AUSTRALIA, DECEMBER 2018 – News Corp Australia for Vogue Australia
Newsletter of the Year
Squiz Today – The Squiz
Event of the Year
News Corp Australia – Vogue American Express Fashion’s Night Out 2018
Publish Award For Innovation
Robb Report – Robb Report Australia and New Zealand for Augmented Reality
Salesperson/Team Of The Year
Concrete Playground
Young Writer of the Year (30 or Under)
Gavin Butler – VICE Media
HC: Laura Masia – Bauer Media for Take 5 magazine
Columnist Of The Year
Joe Hildebrand – news.com.au
HC: Dr. Ranjana Srivastava, OAM – The Guardian
Journalist Of The Year:
Genevieve Gannon – The Australian Women’s Weekly for Bauer Media
HC: Megan Palin – News.com.au (News Corp Australia)
Editor of the Year – Business
Michelle Endacott – Medium Rare Content Agency and NSW Farmers for The Farmer
HC: Claire Chaffey – The Law Society of NSW for LSJ
Editor of the Year – Consumer/Custom
Simon King – Nine Entertainment for nine.com.au
HC: Tahlia Pritchard – Junkee Media for Punkee
Website Of The Year – Business
Create – Mahlab for Engineers Australia
Website Of The Year – Consumer/Custom
News.com.au – News Corp Australia
HC: Concrete Playground
Association Or Member Organisation Publication Of The Year
LSJ – The Law Society of NSW
Launch/Relaunch Of The Year – Small
“Daily Cargo News” published by Paragon Media
HC: Luxury Escapes Magazine – Grin Creative and Luxury Escapes
Launch/Relaunch Of The Year – Large
The Australian – News Corp Australia
HC: Jetstar Magazine – Medium Rare Content Agency for Jetstar
Special Edition Of The Year
The Australian Financial Review Magazine – Nine
Custom Publication Of The Year
Jetstar Magazine – Medium Rare Content Agency for Jetstar
HC: Qantas Magazine – Medium Rare Content Agency for Qantas
Business Publication Of The Year
The Australian Financial Review – Nine
Consumer Publication Of The Year – Small
Kookie Magazine – Missprint Media
HC: Australian Geographic
Consumer Publication of the Year – Large
Stellar – News Corp Australia
Branded Content Studio Of The Year
Concrete Playground
HC: News Native Networks – News Corp Australia
Publishing Company of the Year – Small
Grin Creative
Publishing Company of the Year – Large
Hardie Grant
Publish Leader of the Year
Jane Waterhouse – General Manager Story 54 – Bauer Media
Brand of the Year
taste.com.au – News Corp Australia
HC: Bauer Media – Take 5
Bauer Media handing out an award to itself, when its people were three-fifths of the finalists in that category… WTF is that about?!
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I really don’t get how they can be number one…Their proof readers should be sacked. I read news.com.au and in nearly every single article, there are spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, words written twice in a row or left out completely. The award should have gone to someone that actually checks proofreads their stories before putting them out to the world.
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Hi Disgusted,
To be clear, our jurors do not vote on entries from their own companies at either shortlisting or final round stages. They declare an interest and don’t score that entry, and we then average the scores across the rest of the jury so nobody is disadvantaged.
In the category you’re referring to, the juror went a step further. She participated in the shortlisting process only (with the exception of her own company’s entries). And when the shortlist was announced with three of her own company staff on the list she stepped back from being involved in that final round of judging altogether.
When it comes to the awards night, we invite one of our jurors to make the announcement. Because we total up individual jurors’ scores ourselves, the first they know who the winner is, is when they open the envelope.
However, we should not have asked her to announce the winner, given that it was one of her colleagues. That was on us, and I apologise.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
most entries on every category, have to be a winner when odds are stacked!!
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Their proofreaders have been sacked!
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And Medium Rare is News Corp majority owned. So it’s a clean sweep, really.
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….the most boring awards show ever.
Imagine all the old ladies getting drunk on chandie and talking about NGEN in 1995!
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