Prospect editor walks away with two prizes at annual Scottish PPA awards
Prospect, The Drum’s sister architecture and design-led title, scooped awards for best design for a business/professional magazine and Penny Lewis, the magazine’s editor, picked up the Editor of the Year title at this year’s prestigious Scottish Magazine Awards, backed by the PPA.
The Scottish Farmer scooped the top award at this year’s awards, winning the title of Magazine of the Year, while consumer golf magazine Bunkered was named Consumer Magazine of the Year. Publisher of the Year was awarded to The List’s Robin Hodge.
Commenting on her award, Lewis said that the success of their Holyrood coverage impressed the judges. She said: “One of the reasons Prospect picked up awards was our coverage of the Holyrood project. The level of commitment, imagination and ambition expressed in the parliament project was very impressive. We tried to strike a balance between enjoying and celebrating the quality of the building and providing objective analysis of the process and the product.”
Christopher Ward, vice-chairman of Redwood Publishing and chair of the judging panel applauded the “editorial excellence of Scotland’s burgeoning magazine industry” and stated that the judges were “won over by the ability of the editors and publishers to infect their readers with their own enthusiasm, through the power of the writing and the clarity of their designs”.
Nick Creed from Carnyx Group, The Drum’s parent organisation, chairman of PPA Scotland, spoke of the “fantastic breadth of talent, quality and professionalism” and recognised that it was the “sheer passion and commitment from everyone involved in magazine publishing that makes this industry in Scotland what it is today”.