North Coast Media, LLC

Kim Traum

Kim Traum
Art Director

Kim Traum is the art director for Pit & Quarry, Portable Plants & Equipment and LP Gas magazines. She has more than 20 years of experience as an art director, specializing in trade publication design, and has won awards from a variety of professional organizations. Kim earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and graphic design from Kent State University.

Courtney Townsend

Courtney Townsend
Art Director

Courtney Townsend is the art director for GPS World magazine. She also contributes to all of the NCM print magazines as well as the marketing department. Graduated from Bowling Green State University, with more than 21 years experience in print design and prepress. She thrives on deadline-driven environments and brings her organizational skills in the fast-paced publishing industry to NCM.

Antoinette Sanchez-Perkins

Antoinette Sanchez-Perkins
Senior Audience Development Manager

Antoinette Sanchez-Perkins has more than 20 years of experience in B2B media print and digital audience development. Her expertise in database and list management and controlled circulation audits and assessments helps advertisers to target the right audiences with their messaging and to see detailed data regarding the brands with which they interact. Antoinette began her career with Penton Media as circulation fulfillment manager for Electronic Design magazine.

Karey Constant

Karey Constant
Senior Staff Accountant

Karey Constant has worked as a senior accountant in the B2B publishing sector for the past decade. Prior to that she managed accounts payable and receivable, payroll and financial reporting, among others, for a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit businesses. She has a bachelor’s degree in accounting with a certification in human resources from Ursuline College.

Golfdom editor monitors affordable golf case study

The effort to raise the number of players at America’s public golf courses has a new champion in Golfdom Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones. Jones is assisting Michael Chaplinsky, the president / founder of Turf Feeding Systems, in a long-term study of municipal golf courses and their visitors.

The focus of the study is sustainable golf, which Chaplinsky says is less about “bird houses and flowers” and more about “reducing costs and water use.” Lower costs to operate help keep public courses in business.

Three public golf courses will be part of the research, starting with Boiling Springs Golf Course in Woodward, Oklahoma, where superintendent Jeff Wagner was the first to sign on to the study.

Golfdom will publish the results of the case studies next year in a summary report story.

Read: Turf Feeding Systems, a Texas Company, Launched Affordable Golf Program to Bring Golfers Back into the Game

Golfdom wins industry-leading 16 awards from Turf & Ornamental Communicators Association

CLEVELAND, Ohio — May 22, 2015 — North Coast Media is pleased to announce Golfdom continues to be recognized for its outstanding editorial and design leadership by the Turf & Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA), which this year held its annual awards ceremony in Milwaukee. Golfdom earned an industry-leading 16 awards including one “best in show” Gardner Award for new media, seven first place awards and eight merit awards. Sister publication Landscape Management (LM) nabbed 15 awards. North Coast Media once again led all publishing companies that competed for TOCA awards in the golf and landscape markets with 31 total awards.

Golfdom won TOCA awards for:

First Place

Photography, Video, Multimedia, Best single photo – Use of stock art, “The Golfdom Report,” Pete Seltzer
Photography, Video, Multimedia, Best print magazine cover, “The Golfdom Report,” Pete Seltzer
New Media, Blogs, “The Golfdom Daily,” Seth Jones
Writing, Editorial/Opinion Piece – commercial publications, “The dangerous art of speaking your mind,” Seth Jones
Writing, Column – commercial publications, “A post-Open reminder that freedom isn’t free,” Seth Jones
Writing, Series of columns by regular department columnist – commercial publications, “Keeping up with the Jones,” Seth Jones
Writing, General feature article – commercial publications, “Jimmy the Kid,” Seth Jones

Merit

Photography, Video, Multimedia, Portrait/Personality (photo of individual or group of individuals), “Driven to distraction,” Leah Nash
Photography, Video, Multimedia, Best single photo – created by a TOCA member or freelancer commissioned by a TOCA member, “Golf’s got 99 problems, but is the big cup one?,” Sarah Nader
Design, Single page design, editorial – printed magazines, “The 19th Hole,” Pete Seltzer
Writing, Column – commercial publications, “Those guys,” Matt Neff
Writing, Column – commercial publications, “Are you ready for some Fantasy Greenkeeping?,” Matt Neff
Writing, Product information article – commercial publications, “What’s the next big idea at GIE+Expo?,” Seth Jones
Writing, General feature article – commercial publications, “True romance,” Seth Jones
Writing, Series – two or more articles defined as series – commercial publications, “Winterkill in the crosshairs; Working undercover,” Sam Bauer, Brian Horgan, Ph.D., Lindsay Hoffman, Ph.D.

The Gardner Award was awarded in the new media category to Golfdom’s blog, “The Golfdom Daily.” This is the fourth year in a row Golfdom‘s blog has won the first place TOCA award in the New Media, Publishing category.

Golfdom also demonstrated that it has the best columnists in the industry, winning three of the four individual column-writing TOCAs awarded, and a first place series award for “Keeping up with the Jones,” the monthly column written by Golfdom’s editor-in-chief, Seth Jones.

“The results of the 2015 TOCA awards reaffirmed that our publications, Golfdom and Landscape Management, are at the top of their respective markets,” said Kevin Stoltman, president and CEO of North Coast Media. “I’m confident Golfdom and Landscape Management will continue to impress TOCA judges — and most important, our readers and marketing partners — for decades to come.”