Canadian Magazine Industry News
11 May 2011, TORONTO
Third annual online awards open for entries, new categories added
There are two more categories to enter this year for the upcoming Canadian Online Publishing Awards, the third year for the COPAs.
The new categories include best digital edition (replica) and best tablet edition. Also new this year is the addition of gold and silver winners in each category.
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The new categories include best digital edition (replica) and best tablet edition. Also new this year is the addition of gold and silver winners in each category.
COPA is Canada’s premier awards program for editorial-based online publishing. Launched in 2009 primarily for the magazine industry, the COPAs expanded to include newspaper publishers and broadcasters in 2010. Online-only publishers are also eligible. Now in its third year, COPA continues to grow with the two new categories.
The entry deadline is June 24 (early-bird June 3). Winners will be announced at the awards reception to be held in Toronto in October. Last year's program received national and international coverage, with winners including Maclean's, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Salon52.ca, Vitamin Daily, Sparksheet, CBC.ca and many others. (Click here to see a full list.)
COPA is produced by MastheadOnline with sponsors including Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), CCAB div. of BPA Worldwide, Cornerstone Group and Mygazines.
Full entry details, entry forms and sponsorship information are available at www.canadianonlinepublishingawards.com.
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Thanks for your comment. We understand your sentiment as we are deluged with calls for entries from numerous awards events, too.
We are biased, of course, but we do believe there is real value to an awards program, and judging by the increasing number of entries we receive to our awards programs each year, it appears other publishers believe this, too.
Winning an award has many benefits, including:
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Ya there is category creep (guilty), but new categories typically reflect new trends so that new kinds of work can be recognized too; tablet editions being just one example in the case of the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
We look forward to this year's competition and continue to hope that you will enter your award-winning work, too.
Regards,
Doug