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.

Brand of the Year winners – taste.com.au

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 Podcast – The Quicky

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

Best Use of Video – ‘If a man lived like a woman for a day’

Single Article Of The Year
Pamela Williams – The Monthly for Schwartz Media

Single Article of the Year – Pamela Williams

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

Designer of the Year – Kate Barnett

Magazine Cover Of The Year – Business
Company Director – Medium Rare Content Agency

Magazine Cover of the Year – Company Director

Magazine Cover Of The Year – Consumer/Custom
VOGUE AUSTRALIA, DECEMBER 2018 – News Corp Australia for Vogue Australia

Magazine Cover of the Year – Consumer – Vogue Australia

Newsletter of the Year
Squiz Today – The Squiz

Newsletter of the Year – The Squiz

Event of the Year
News Corp Australia – Vogue American Express Fashion’s Night Out 2018

Event of the Year – Vogue American Express Fashion Night Out

Publish Award For Innovation
Robb Report – Robb Report Australia and New Zealand for Augmented Reality

Publish Award for Innovation – Robb Report

Salesperson/Team Of The Year
Concrete Playground

Sales Team of the Year – Concrete Playgound

Young Writer of the Year (30 or Under)
Gavin Butler – VICE Media

HC: Laura Masia – Bauer Media for Take 5 magazine

Young Writer of the Year – Gavin Butler

Columnist Of The Year
Joe Hildebrand – news.com.au

HC: Dr. Ranjana Srivastava, OAM – The Guardian

Columninst of the Year – Joe Hildebrand

Journalist Of The Year:
Genevieve Gannon – The Australian Women’s Weekly for Bauer Media

HC: Megan Palin – News.com.au (News Corp Australia)

Journalist of the Year – Genevieve Gannon

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 – Business – Michelle Endacott

Editor of the Year – Consumer/Custom
Simon King – Nine Entertainment for nine.com.au

HC: Tahlia Pritchard – Junkee Media for Punkee

Editor of the Year – Consumer/Customer – Simon King

Website Of The Year – Business
Create – Mahlab for Engineers Australia

Website of the Year – Create

Website Of The Year – Consumer/Custom
News.com.au – News Corp Australia

HC: Concrete Playground

Website of the Year – Consumer/Custom – news.com.au

Association Or Member Organisation Publication Of The Year
LSJ – The Law Society of NSW

Association or Member Organisation Publication of the Year – LSJ

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 – Small – Daily Cargo News

Launch/Relaunch Of The Year – Large
The Australian – News Corp Australia

HC: Jetstar Magazine – Medium Rare Content Agency for Jetstar

Launch/Relaunch of the Year – Large – The Australian

Special Edition Of The Year
The Australian Financial Review Magazine – Nine

Special Edition of the Year – the Australian Financial Review

Custom Publication Of The Year
Jetstar Magazine – Medium Rare Content Agency for Jetstar

HC: Qantas Magazine – Medium Rare Content Agency for Qantas

Custom Publication of the Year – Jetstar Magazine

Business Publication Of The Year
The Australian Financial Review – Nine

Business Publication of the Year – The Australian Financial Review

Consumer Publication Of The Year – Small
Kookie Magazine – Missprint Media

HC: Australian Geographic

Consumer Publication of the Year – Small – Kookie Magazine

Consumer Publication of the Year – Large
Stellar – News Corp Australia

Consumer Publication of the Year – Large – Stellar

Branded Content Studio Of The Year
Concrete Playground

HC: News Native Networks – News Corp Australia

Branded Content Studio of the Year – Concrete Playground

Publishing Company of the Year – Small
Grin Creative

Publishing Company of the Year – Small – Grin Creative

Publishing Company of the Year – Large
Hardie Grant

Publishing Company of the Year – large – Hardie Grant

Publish Leader of the Year
Jane Waterhouse – General Manager Story 54 – Bauer Media

Publish Leader of the Year – Jane Waterhouse

Brand of the Year
taste.com.au – News Corp Australia

HC: Bauer Media – Take 5

Brand of the Year – taste.com.au

Abigail Dawson

Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.

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Comments: 7

Disgusted 19 Sep 19

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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Heath Rego 20 Sep 19

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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Tim Burrowes 20 Sep 19

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

Big Budget 20 Sep 19

most entries on every category, have to be a winner when odds are stacked!!

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Redundant 20 Sep 19

Their proofreaders have been sacked!

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And 20 Sep 19

And Medium Rare is News Corp majority owned. So it’s a clean sweep, really.

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Would Have Been 21 Sep 19

….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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