05 July 2010

THE 2010 BRITISH SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS AWARDS ARE HERE!

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE 2010 BSME AWARDS www.bsmeawards.com

It’s that time again - time to enter the BSME Awards and book your table for the Dinner.  This year we are not producing a printed leaflet.  Instead we have created an online leaflet, so to enter or book your places for the Dinner just visit www.bsmeawards.com.  The deadline for entering is – Thursday, 29 July – so we’ll need you to complete the form and send in your supporting material before you head off on holiday!  Whether you edit a Business, Consumer, Customer, Newspaper or Online Magazine, there are categories for you to enter.

 

This year we have a new category in the Editors of the Year Section:  Sport, Leisure & Health, for titles focusing on sport, gardening, or health and wellbeing; and the hugely popular Art Director of the Year Award has now been split into three categories:  Business, Consumer Weekly or Fortnightly, and Consumer Monthly or Less Frequent.  Other changes are that Current Affairs magazines will join the Newspaper Category; the Special Interest category now includes Hobbies; and the Lifestyle category will now be for titles focusing on food, homes & interiors and travel.

 

It is free for BSME members to enter the Awards.  There is a single entry fee for non-members of £145 inc VAT, regardless of how many categories are entered.  This fee includes membership of the Society until 31 December 2010.  Online payment is now accepted. There is no charge to make a nomination for the Editors’ Editor of the Year Award.

 

The BSME Awards are the only UK awards run by magazine editors for magazine editors.  Please ensure that you and your magazine/magazine website are represented - and remember to cast your vote for the Editors’ Editor of the Year. 

 

The winners will be announced and Awards presented at The London Hilton on Tuesday, 9 November.  Do book your tickets early as we usually sell out - and remember, it is cheaper if you book and pay before Friday 15 October.

 

It would help enormously if you returned your entry form as soon as possible.  Good luck to everyone who enters!  If you have any queries please contact Gill Branston, the BSME Administrator, on 020 8906 4664.

27 May 2010

THE BSME IS NOW ON TWITTER!

You can follow our live updates on your computer at www.twitter.com http://www.twitter.com/BSMEinfo

Want to know what Twitter is? Have a look here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8565114.stm
For those not already on Twitter, you can set up your own account at www.twitter.com. Twitter is also available for Blackberry users through Ubertwitter and for iPhone users through the Tweetie application.

Once you have set up your account just search for BSMEinfo through Google, click through to our Twitter page and click on the ‘Follow’ button to start following us. With this you can make sure you get all the up-to-date BSME information on both our Awards and events and relevant magazine industry news.

08 March 2010

BSME COMMITTEE VACANCY

There is currently a vacancy on the BSME Committee so if you would like to meet at the WGSN offices in Chalk Farm at 8.45am once a month to add your thoughts and ideas and help implement them and run the BSME Awards, do contact juliet.warkentin@bsme.com and let her know a bit about yourself and what you feel you can add to the mix.

10 November 2009

THE 2009 BSME AWARDS DINNER

The annual BSME Awards Dinner took place on Tuesday, 10th November at the London Hilton.

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