LISTENER WINS TOP HONOUR
It was a big night for the Listener at the recent Voyager Media Awards where Paul Thomas was declared Best Sports columnist, Charlotte Grimshaw was judged Best Reviewer, in part for her work at this magazine, and, in a memorable moment, the Listener was judged Best Newsstand Magazine.
The judges said, “After a brutal six-month shutdown, the Listener has bounced straight back to its position as a leader of New Zealand’s intellectual and political debate. Subs are strong, retail sales are up. It’s a remarkable achievement by a remarkable magazine; one that hits the spot, every week, with smart, witty content that is always important and never dull.”
Editor-in-Chief Pamela Stirling says it was a thrill and an honour to accept the award on behalf of the magazine’s staff and contributors. “This is truly a Lazarus moment. For six months of last year, the was dead, deceased, defunct. But then something extraordinary happened. The subscribers, nearly 30,000 of them,
