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2023

FLORIDA MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

CHARLIE AWARD (First Place)

  • Best Humor Writing

  • Best In-Depth Reporting

  • Best Column Writing

  • Best Service Feature Writing

  • Best Traditional Illustration

  • Best Cover Photography

Silver Award

  • Best In-Depth Reporting

  • Best Public Service Coverage

  • Best Photo Illustration

  • Best Use of Photography

  • Best Feature Design

  • Best Social Media

  • Best Overall Writing

Bronze Award

  • Best Feature Design

  • Best Cover Design

  • Best Website

  • Best Overall Design

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

  • Finalist, General Excellence

SOCIETY FOR PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM (Florida)

First Place

  • Best Public Service Reporting

  • Best Inside Design

Second Place

  • Best Serious Feature

  • Best Cover Design
Third Place
  • Best Food & Travel Writing

2022

FLORIDA MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

CHARLIE AWARD (First Place)

  • Best Overall Writing

  • Best Overall Design

  • Best In-Depth Reporting

  • Best Service Feature

  • Best Photo Illustration

  • Best Cover Photography

  • Best Single Department Image

  • Best Cover Design

  • Best Feature Design

Silver Award

  • Best Use of Photography

  • Best Department Design

  • Best Advertisement for a Client

  • Best Special Theme or Show Issue

Bronze Award

  • Best Column

  • Best Feature Headlines

  • Best Traditional Illustration

  • Best Typography

  • Best Feature Design

  • Best Social Media

  • Best Advertorial

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

  • Winner, Ancillary Publication/General Interest - For the Love of Our Arts

SOCIETY FOR PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM (Florida)

Second Place

  • Best News Website (Small Newsroom)

  • Best Trend Reporting

  • Best Food & Travel Writing
Third Place
  • Best Serious Feature

  • Best Light Feature

  • Best Inside Design

2021

FLORIDA MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

CHARLIE AWARD (First Place)

  • Best Writing: Public Service Coverage – “A Line in the Sand,” Isaac Eger

  • Best Writing: Service Feature – “Open House,” Ilene Denton

  • Best Writing: Feature Headlines – “If These Walls Could Talk, Greatest Shores on Earth, A Line in the Sand,” Susan Burns

  • Best Overall: Design

  • Best Digital: Magazine Website – Sarasotamagazine.com (Sarasota Magazine Staff)

  • Best Traditional Illustration - “A Line in the Sand,” Michael Byers

  • Best Photography: Single Feature Image – “The IMG Effect,” Everett Dennison

  • Best Design: Typography – “The Elephant Polka,” Gigi Ortwein

  • Best Advertisement: For a Client – “Arts Alliance,” Michael Cronin

  • Best Special Theme or Show Issue – “For the Love of the Arts,” Kay Kipling, Lauren Pritchard, Sarasota Magazine Staff

Silver Award

  • Best Overall: Magazine

  • Best Overall: Writing – March/November/Insider's Guide, Sarasota Magazine Staff

  • Best Writing: Feature – “I Will Never Go Away,” Elizabeth Djinis

  • Best Traditional Illustration – September-October 2020 Cover, Gigi Ortwein and Chanelle Nibbelink

  • Best Photography: Photo Essay/Series – “Natural Wonders,” Sarasota Magazine Staff

  • Best Photography: Cover – May-June 2020 Cover, Gigi Ortwein

  • Best Design: Use of Photography - “Greatest Shores on Earth, Journey to the End of Florida, Parks to Play In,”
    Sarasota Magazine Staff

  • Best Design: Typography – “Coloring Her World,” Gigi Ortwein

  • Best Design: Cover – April 2020 Cover, Gigi Ortwein

Bronze Award
  • Best Photo Illustration – “Go Figure,” Gigi Ortwein

  • Best Photography: Single Department Image – “Destined to Play,” Joe Lipstein

  • Best Digital: Social Media – Sarasota Magazine Social Media (Megan McDonald)

 

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

  • Finalist, Civic Journalism – “A Line in the Sand,” Isaac Eger

 

PARKER THOMSON MEDIA AWARD

  • First Place - “A Line in the Sand,” Isaac Eger

2020

FLORIDA MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

CHARLIE AWARD (First Place)

  • Best Digital: Magazine Website - Sarasotamagazine.com

  • Best Overall: Writing - November, December, January 2019 Issues

  • Best Design: Cover - July 2019 Issue

  • Best Traditional Illustration - “Lost World,” Christina Chung

  • Best Photography: Photo Essay/Series - “Picture This,” Jenny Acheson, Everett Dennison, Chris Lake,
    Brad McCourtney, Chad Spencer

  • Best Photography: Single Department Image - “Snake Hunter,” Fred Lopez

  • Best Design: Use of Photography - “Gulf Feast, Top 50 Restaurants, Top Tickets”

  • Best Design: Department - “Only in Sarasota, June and September”

  • Best Design: Feature - “Gulf Feast,” Lauren Pritchard

  • Best Advertorial: Story or Section - “Suffragist Project”

  • Best Special Theme or Show Issue - March 2019 Issue

  • Best Redesign - April, November 2019 Issues

Silver Award

  • Best Overall: Magazine - January, November, December 2019 Issues

  • Best Overall: Design - January, July, November 2019 Issues

  • Best Digital: Social Media

  • Best Writing: Feature - “T-Shirt Wars,” Cooper Levey-Baker

  • Best Writing: Public Service Coverage - “Addicted at Birth,” Cooper Levey-Baker

  • Best Writing: Humor - “Chatterbox: End of the World,” Robert Plunket

  • Best Writing: Service Feature - “Happy Trails,” Isaac Eger

  • Best Writing: Feature Headlines - “T-Shirt Wars, There Goes the Neighborhood, I Wouldn't Piss Me Off,”
    Cooper Levey-Baker, David Hackett

  • Best Photography: Single Feature Image - “Fitness Fighters,” Everett Dennison

  • Best Design: Typography - “Jet Set,” Gigi Ortwein

Bronze Award

  • Best Writing: Feature - “Paper Cuts,” David Hackett

  • Best Writing: Public Service Coverage - “Putting the Pieces Together,” Pam Daniel

  • Best Writing: Humor - “Chatterbox: Social Media Influencer,” Robert Plunket

  • Best Writing: Service Feature - “Grab and Go,” Cooper Levey-Baker

  • Best Photo Illustration - “There Goes the Neighborhood,” Patrick Boyer

  • Best Photography: Single Feature Image - “Fashion,” Mark Farmwald

  • Best Design: Typography - “Cut the Grass,” Gigi Ortwein

 

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM (FLORIDA)

  • First Place, Inside Design

  • Second Place, Cover Design

  • Third Place, Public Service Reporting

 

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION

  • Finalist- “General Excellence”

 

AMERICAN ADVERTISING AWARDS (SUNCOAST)

Silver

  • Sales & Marketing: Card, Invitation or Announcement Campaign -“SAF Mod Weekend,” Michael Cronin

  • Sales & Marketing: Magazine Design -“Sarasota Magazine Arts Calendar,” Michael Cronin