CLEVELAND, Ohio — May 12, 2015 — North Coast Media is pleased to announce Landscape Management (LM) continues to be recognized for its outstanding editorial excellence and design by the Turf & Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA) earning 14 honors and one Gardner Award at TOCA’s annual awards ceremony held in Milwaukee on May 7. These results continue LM‘s eight-year run of winning more awards than its competing publications and more awards than any industry publication in the 26-year history of TOCA.
LM‘s sister publication Golfdom reaped a total of 16 awards: 15 TOCA awards and one Gardner Award. North Coast Media once again led all publishing companies that competed for TOCA awards in the golf and landscape markets with 31 awards.
LM‘s 15 honors included:
Gardner (Best of Show)
- Design, Two-plus page design, editorial – printed magazines, “Big Picture November 2014,” Tracie Martinez
First Place
- Single page design, editorial – printed magazines, “Backstory November 2014,” Tracie Martinez
- Design, Two-plus page design, editorial – printed magazines, “Big Picture November 2014,” Tracie Martinez
- Design, Overall magazine design – printed magazines, “Landscape Management: December 2014,” Tracie Martinez
- Design, Overall company web design – electronic publishing, “LandscapeManagement.net,” Jesse Malcmacher, Bethany Chambers, Pete Seltzer
- Design, Overall media kit design, “Landscape Management 2015 Media Planner,” Bill Roddy, Michelle Mitchell, Bobbi Ware
- Special Projects, Best single issue, “Landscape Management: December 2014,” Marisa Palmieri, Sarah Pfledderer, Tracie Martinez
- Special Projects, Writing for special projects, “LM150,” Marisa Palmieri, Sarah Pfledderer
- New Media, Podcasts, “Landscape Live!”, Jody Shilan
- New Media, Websites, “LandscapeManagement.net,” Marisa Palmieri, Sarah Pfledderer, Allison Barwacz, Bethany Chambers, Jesse Malcmacher
- New Media, Innovative use of social media, “Landscape Management social media strategy,” Marisa Palmieri, Sarah Pfledderer, Allison Barwacz
- Writing, General feature article – commercial publications, “Same tree, different branches,” Marisa Palmieri
Merit
- Photography, Video, Multimedia, Best single photo – Use of stock art, “LM October 2014 Cover Photo,” Tracie Martinez
- Design, Cover page design – printed magazines, “LM October 2014 Cover,” Tracie Martinez
- Special Projects, Writing for special projects, “LM Industry Pulse,” Marisa Palmieri
“This recognition validates the hard work of our editorial and digital teams,” said Kevin Stoltman, president and CEO of North Coast Media. “They are committed to providing readers the content they need on all media platforms they’re using. We put a strong emphasis on our digital offerings last year and it was very rewarding to see our website, blog, podcast and social media initiatives being honored as among the best.”
