Co-Winner: Dwell, ‘Dwellings’
Each month, the magazine that chronicles our living space features three stories on a theme that features design approaches in a large range of modern homes. In the very popular Dwellings section of the Dwell.com site, the editors enhance the feature with in-depth slideshows that surround every aspect of the design and provide rich captioning that gives each dwelling a full critical treatment. The dwellings are also surrounded by related content that is neatly divided into product listings, videos, events and other similar designs.
The recent redesign of Dwell.com allows the reader to explore every detail of a space, with more than a dozen images, and then drill into related content to deepen the experience. From prefabs to reconditioned old farmhouses, from Victorian Revival to space-saving apartment designs, Dwell offers a large embrace of home styles in order to cover a wide audience and inspire a range of readers. The editorial style is always insightful and designed to spark creativity rather than deliver rules and hard pronouncements. This is service journalism at its best—crafted to motivate readers to rethink and redesign their own worlds as soon as they put down the articles.
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Co-Winner: Meredith Corp./Parents Magazine, ‘Small World’
Parents are not just raising children, they are raising citizens of the world. This is the perspective Parents magazine took in early 2008 with its series “Small World,” which highlighted the importance of learning a second language or experiencing different cultures and exposing children to stories from around the world.
Parents’ superb series went beyond the usual bromides about the importance of a global view and offered monthly tips and tactics for bringing your child up with an appreciation of multicultural experiences and opportunities. How does one raise a bilingual child? What are the books and stories from around the world that really turn kids on to diverse cultures and open them up to new mythologies born of different experiences?
Every feature in this series is peppered with quick takes on new products or takeaways you can bring to the dinner table to try with your own kids. Want to learn four new words across six languages? Parents has a chart for that. Looking for lullabies in two languages? Parents offers a small catalog of cross-cultural books for every nighttime reading occasion. The “Small World” series makes global awareness easy and fun.
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Honorable Mentions
AARP Segunda Juventud – “President Obama’s First 100 Days”: This eight-part series drills deep to see how Hispanic support for the new president was paying off for the community in terms of jobs, healthcare and clout in Washington.
BusinessWeek – “Medical Data”: Showing remarkable foresight a year before the healthcare debate exploded, the August 2008 issue of BW surrounded the topic with personal stories of insurance company abuse, corporate scrutiny of patients and the real consequences of a labyrinthine health industrial complex.
CareerCast.com – “Jobs Rated Report”: In a downturn, job hunters need to know what and where are the best jobs out there…and what are the worst. With an eye toward understanding how pay, stress, security and other key employment factors weigh on employees, CareerCast gave readers an honest, thorough view of the market.
Data Center Management Magazine – “Leaders and Legends”: By highlighting some of the most accomplished people in the data center field at companies like Motorola and Emerson Network Power, DCM demonstrated to readers what it takes to rise to the top and the kind of insights true industry leaders offer.
Entertainment Weekly – EW.com “TV Watch”: EW gives us a morning watercooler conversation that recaps the hottest shows of the night and lets columnists and readers trade insights and OMG!s.
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