The Tyee and St. Joseph’s top winners at Canadian Online Publishing Awards

The Tyee took home three awards from the Toronto ceremony for the first Canadian Online Publishing Awards on Oct. 26.

In total, eighteen websites were honoured, with St. Joseph Media also winning three awards for Torontolife.com, Fashionmagazine.com and the 20-Minute Supper Club.

The new awards program, produced by Masthead Online, recognizes excellence in online editorial and innovation by Canadian magazine and website publishers.

The Tyee, which had six nominations going into the evening, won for Best Website Design, Best News, and Best Community Feature.

St. Joseph won for Best Overall Magazine Website for Torontolife.com, Best Video for Fashionmagazine.com and Best E-Newsletter for 20-Minute Supper Club.

Vancouver-based Canada Wide Media was next with two awards, including Best Blog for Home [Eco]nomics and Best Article Series for its Ecofashion News on Granville Online.

On the B2B side of things, IT World Canada was the big winner, taking two awards, including Best Overall Online-Only Website and Best News.
 
A full list of winners is available on the Canadian Online Publishing Awards website.

Masthead has posted a photo gallery from the awards ceremony.