Paste Magazine Wins a Folio: Eddie Award for Editorial Excellence

Paste’s June/July 2006 Issue Earned Top Honors in the Consumer Magazine Entertainment Category

NEW YORK, NY (September 25, 2007)—Paste magazine’s June/July 2006 issue, “100 Best Living Songwriters,” earned top editorial honors at Folio: magazine’s 2007 Eddie and Ozzie Awards on Sunday evening at the Marriot Marquis in New York City. The Eddie awards recognize editorial excellence for consumer and business-to-business magazines.

This year’s competition drew almost 3,000 entries from all categories of magazines, making the awards the largest and most inclusive competition in the magazine industry.

Paste’s winning issue, “100 Best Living Songwriters,” earned the Gold award for best “Entertainment (Full Issue)” in the consumer division of the awards. Coming in behind Paste was Nickelodeon’s magazine, Nick, and Penton Media’s Remix.

“That was probably the most fun (and most work) that's ever gone into an issue,” said Editor-in-chief Josh Jackson. “And it's also the issue that garnered the biggest response from our readers. A year later, and we're still getting letters about who should have been on that list or who was overrated.”

Earlier this year, Paste won “Magazine of the Year” at the Plug Awards and was also awarded “The Grand GAMMA Award” at the 18th annual GAMMA Awards (as well as four other Gold GAMMA Awards for best consumer magazine, best design, best single issue and best cover). Paste was also named one of The Chicago Tribune's “50 Best Magazines” in 2007.

The award-winning “100 Best Living Songwriters” cover story is available at: http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/2976/feature/music/pastes_100_best_living_songwriters.  A complete list of winners is available at: http://www.foliomag.com/page.asp?prmID=390