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5 June 2013,     TORONTO
Up Here Business and Oilweek take top nods at KRW Awards
Up Here Business won Magazine of the Year—Professional, and Oilweek took home Magazine of the Year—Trade at the 59th annual KRW Awards. The category divide was new for this year's program.

No strangers to the podium, Marketing walked away with the most prizes with three golds and two silvers, and CAmagazine followed with three golds and one silver. Other multiple gold winners were Up Here Business, OHS Canada, and Conseiller. The innaugural Best New Journalist award went to Katie Keir for her Advisor's Edge article, "When Good Partners Go Bad".

Up Here Business editor Guy Quenneville accepts the award for Magazine of the Year—Professional
Up Here Business editor Guy Quenneville accepts the award for Magazine of the Year—Professional

The awards, presented by Canadian Business Press, were held in Toronto at the Grand Banking Hall at One King West. Canada Wide Media's Tom Gierasimczuk returned as host, also scooping up a gold for himself in Best Profile of a Company for his Marketing piece, "Vice Age".

Here is a complete list of winners at the 59th annual KRW Awards:

Magazine of the Year—Professional
Up Here Business, Up Here Publishing
Marion Lavigne (publisher); Guy Quenneville (editor); Michael Ericsson (art director)

Magazine of the Year—Trade
Oilweek, JuneWarren-Nickle's Energy Group
Chaz Osburn (publisher); Dale Lunan (editor); Cath Ozubko (art director)

Best Cover
Gold: Oilsands Review, September 2012
Cath Ozubko, Joel Kadziolka and Deborah Jaremko
Silver: Precedent, "Precedent Setter Awards"
Barb Woolley, Daniel Ehrenworth and Miki Arai

Best Issue
Gold: Les Affaires, May 19, 2012, "Le pouvoir créatif"
Silver: Marketing, February 20, 2012, "Facebook Rules"

Website of the Year
lawandstyle.ca, the website of Precedent magazine
Melissa Kluger, Christina Cheung, Rose Hendrie, Melanie Dziengo and ResIM

Best New Journalist
Katie Keir, "When Good Partners go Bad", Advisor's Edge

Art Direction of a Complete Issue
Gold: Premium, "Numéro 12," Louise Rouleau
Silver: Precedent, "Precedent Setter Awards", Barb Woolley and Miki Arai

Best Illustration
Gold: Sarah Tyson, "Personal Financial Planning", CAmagazine
Silver: Tara Hardy, "Friends with Health Benefits", Benefits Canada

Best Photograph

Gold: Ian McCausland, "From Fired to Inspired", Foodservice & Hospitality
Silver: Nigel Dickson, "He knows the Drill", CAmagazine

Best Art Direction of an Opening Spread / Complete Feature

Gold: Underline Studio ,"In Praise of Literature", University Affairs
Silver: Jo-Anne Martin Grier, Michael Alberstat, Jacqueline Kovacs, Leata Lekushoff, Stephanie Saunders, "Supplies in Demand", Professionally Speaking

Best Editorial
Gold: Yves Bonneau, "Point de vue", Conseiller
Silver: Joe Terrett, "Electro-Motive: The Greed Factor", Plant

Best Feature Article—Professional
Gold: Sophie Stival, "Liquidateur : un rôle crucial et délicat", Conseiller
Silver: Naheed Mustafa, "The Trillion-Dollar Pie", CMA magazine

Best Feature Article—Trade
Gold: Jason Contant, "Lingering Shadows", OHS Canada
Silver: Nicolas Mesly, "Au coeur de la Bourse de Chicago", Le Coopérateur agricole

Best How-To Article or Series of How-To Articles
Gold: David Tal, "Learning Super Skills", Jobpostings Magazine
Silver: Marie-Ève Fournier, "Comment durer 100 ans en affaires", Les Affaires

Best Industrial / Manufacturing Article
Gold: Jason Contant, "Death by Design", OHS Canada
Silver: Pierre Théroux, "La menace du patriotisme industriel", Les Affaires

Best Merchandising / Marketing Article
Gold: Kristin Laird, "Everybody Loves Target", Marketing

Best News Coverage
Gold: Nicolas Mesly, "La vie après la Commission canadienne du blé", Le Coopérateur agricole
Silver: Rosanna Tamburri, "All about MOOCs", University Affairs

Best One-of-a-Kind Article
Gold: Guy Quenneville, "Devolution for Dummies", Up Here Business
Silver: Alicia Androich, David Brown, Tom Gierasimczuk, Kristin Laird, Jeromy Lloyd, Russ Martin, "30 Under 30", Marketing

Best Professional Article
Gold: Mark Anderson (tie), "The Changing Face of Risk Management", Listed
Gold: John Lorinc (tie), "Waste Watchers", CAmagazine

Best Profile of a Company
Gold: Tom Gierasimczuk, "Vice Age", Marketing
Silver: Nicolas Mesly, "Fonterra, la perle convoitée du Pacifique", Le Coopérateur agricole

Best Profile of a Person
Gold: Chris Powell, "Hot Potato", Marketing
Silver: Jef Catapang, "Printer of the Year", Graphic Monthly Canada

Best Regularly Featured Department or Column

Gold: David Malamed, "Fraud", CAmagazine
Silver: Jef Catapang, Nancy Kay Clark, "Case Study", Design Edge Canada

Best Resource / Infrastructure Article

Gold: Jeff Lewis, "The Nordic Way", Alberta Oil
Silver: Darren Campbell, "Black Art", Alberta Oil

Best Website Editorial Package

Gold: Brandon Tenebaum, Brett Ruffell, "Brandon Tenebaum Blog", Canadian Healthcare Network


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