BSME - The British Society of Magazine Editors

Free webinar on Wednesday 17 July at 1pm 🕐 How to win a BSME Award: Hear from the judges about entry tips and jury insights. Winning a BSME Award can be a highlight of your journalistic career, but it requires skill to craft a winning entry that will impress the most demanding of judges - your editorial peers. Entries for the BSME Awards 2024 are now open and we are hosting a special event about how to win and what the judges will be looking for. Gideon Spanier, the 2024 BSME chair, will join BSME committee members, judges and former BSME winners Hattie Brett, Laurence Mozafari and Sophie-Marie Odum, who will give their entry tips and jury insights, plus take audience questions. This is a must-attend event for anyone who wants to find out how to win a journalism award. Book now via our website at www.bsme.com/rsvp

The weeks leading up to the #BSMEAwards are probably one of the most exciting times of the year for the British magazine and publishing world, as the night celebrates the best in class across our industry and their incredible successes over the past 12 months ✨ Entries have started to arrive at BSME HQ, and we can’t wait to share them with the judges! If you haven’t chosen your categories yet, there’s still time, but the deadline is looming. Entries close in just over 3 weeks on Wednesday 31 July at 6pm – so go, go, go!

Join us in welcoming our newest committee member, Bryan Glick, editor-in-chief at Computer Weekly! We’re thrilled to have Bryan on our committee and can’t wait to see how he’ll help shape and inspire the next generation of journalists and editors ✨

Entries are now open for the annual #BSMEAwards - the Oscars of the magazine world and a highlight of the editorial calendar ✨ Winning a BSME award is the pinnacle of achievement for Britain’s editors, and the judges are drawn from across the industry and academia to identify the best in class. We have a total of 33 categories celebrating the best work by Britain’s magazine and digital and art directors, providing you with the opportunity to celebrate your successes over the past 12 months. The ceremony will take place in November 2024 and we are planning a star-studded night to award the best talent in our sector, so make sure to get your entries in before the closing date on Wednesday, 31 July at 6pm ⏰ For more details on the categories and how to enter, head to our website at www.bsme.com/awards 🔗

Looking for your next role? 👀 We’ve taken a look the incredible job opportunities out there and rounded some up for our fellow journos and editors. Take a look at new positions over at Hearst UK, The Telegraph and Newsweek ✍️

Entries to the 2024 BSME Awards officially open next week! ✨ Whether your title is digital or print, an iPad edition or app, whether it focuses on consumer, business or branded content – this is the opportunity to celebrate your successes over the past 12 months. Winning a BSME is the pinnacle of achievement for Britain’s editors and the judging panel is made up of editors from some of the UK’s top print and digital titles to identify the best in class. We have a new Cover of the Year Independent category for 2024, to complement our usual Cover of the Year lists – alongside our mainstay Editor, Art Director, Launch of the Year, Columnists and DEI Leadership categories. Make sure to stay tuned for the official announcement next week… and start preparing those applications 👀

Thank you to the Royal Academy of Arts for inviting us to an exclusive preview of their Summer Exhibition last week! 🎨 We had an incredible morning connecting with fellow BSME members and art enthusiasts while exploring the breathtaking galleries, which offer a unique glimpse into the contemporary art world. Thanks again to RA for the invitation, as well as to Jo Prosser, director: audience and experience, and Johanna Bennett, head of press and communications, for introducing us to the charming Academicians Room and taking the time to connect with our members ✨

We hope you’re all enjoying your goodies from the #BSMETalentAwards2024 gift bags 🤩 Huge thank you to Yakult UK & Ireland, Bloom and Blossom, LUSH, Tony's Chocolonely and HarperCollins Publishers for all the treats! We’d also like to thank Yakult for supporting the Best Writer - Health, Science + Technology category, EFX for crafting the gorgeous awards, as well as Gusbourne and Asahi for providing our winners, highly-commended and attendees with a drink to celebrate 🍾

Britain’s rising editorial stars were crowned last week at the BSME Talent Awards 2024 - and what a night it was! The annual ceremony for up-and-coming talent in the magazine and digital publishing industry was held at 100 Wardour Streer, London, where we celebrated editorial excellence and innovation across digital and print publications in the UK. Massive congratulations to all the winners and highly-commended, and thank you to everyone who attended! We’d also like to extend a very warm thank you to our committee, Sian Eleri for hosting the event with our chair Gideon Spanier, Kennedy Taylor for welcoming guests and DJ Siggy for ending the evening with some fab music ✨ Visit our website to see some more photos and read some more about the event.

Members of the BSME came together last week at Bauer Media’s recently-opened London headquarters, The Lantern, to discuss the evolving landscape of magazine subscriptions. Our panel, hosted by Dan Green editor of The Week Junior Science+Nature, featured insights from Catherine de Lange, editor of New Scientist, Nick de Semlyen, editor of Empire, Maisie McCabe, editor of Campaign and Abi Spooner, strategy partner at Atlas. The discussion ranged widely, exploring the recent shift to subscriptions and the many facets of serving high-quality editorial content to subscribers. Along the way, they touched on strategies around paywalls and pricing, diversifying revenue streams and building out bespoke subscription tiers, the evolving role of AI in content creation, and much more. Thank you to our host Dan Green, our panel and Bauer Media for kindly hosting the discussion. Visit our website to see more photos and watch the video recording from the discussion.