INITIAL SHORTLISTING

Each category is shortlisted by teams of Committee Members who work in different industry sectors.
Where appropriate, additional consultants are co-opted to join the teams.

FINAL JUDGING

Shortlisted magazines are judged by a panel of external judges chaired by
the 2011 BSME Chair, Lisa Smosarski.

The 2011 judging panel includes:
Lisa Smosarski, Editor, Stylist (BSME Chair)
Anne Ashworth, Assistant Editor, The Times; Editor, Bricks & Mortar
Claudine Collins, Head of Investment, MediaCom
Lisa Collins, Former Executive Editor, The Daily Mail
Nancy Cruickshank, Executive Consulting Director, M&A / Investment (Telegraph Media Group)
David Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Phaidon Press
Jeremy Leslie, Designer, Writer and Curator, magCulture.com
Kath Ludlow, Founder, Bright Stuff Communications
Charles McDonald, Freelance Film PR Consultant
Fiona McIntosh, Columnist and Creative Director at my-wardrobe.com
William Owen, Co-Founder, Made by Many
Barbara Rowlands, Director, MA Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, City University, London
Gary Sharpen, Creative Consultant

COMMITTEE JUDGING

The following categories are judged by the BSME Committee:
The Fiona Macpherson New Editor of the Year
Innovation/Brand Building Initiative of the Year
Campaign of the Year
The Committee also awards The Mark Boxer Award

For all awards, editorial members of the final panel of judges are excluded from judging any category that they have entered. If they are an 'editor-in-chief' and there is another named editor for a title, that editor may enter. Editorial judges are eligible to be nominated for the Editors’ Editor of the Year Category.