The National Media Awards Foundation is pleased to announce the lineup of categories for the 2021 Digital Publishing Awards. Our program for 2021 features 24 categories, including expanding the Best Podcast award into two separate categories and introducing a new category, Best Virtual Event, to better reflect the content being produced by the industry.
We’re also pleased to introduce a new, cross-programming initiative. For the categories highlighted below, we welcome the work of National Magazine Awards and National Magazine Awards: B2B participants, in addition to Digital Publishing Awards participants. Entries in each category will be evaluated by a single panel of judges, and winners will be announced across all three programs. Here’s the full lineup:
- Best Digital Editorial Package
- Best Column
- Best News Coverage (Community Publication)
- Best News Coverage
- Best Feature Article
- Best Feature Article: Short
- Best Feature Article: Long
- Best Personal Essay
- Best Arts & Culture Storytelling
- Best Science & Technology Storytelling
- Best Service Feature
- Best Online Video: Short
- Best Online Video: Feature
- Best Online Video: Mini-Doc
- Best Podcast: News & Politics
- Best Podcast: Arts & Culture
- Best Digital Design
- Best Photo Storytelling
- Best Social Storytelling
- Best Editorial Newsletter
- Innovation in Digital Storytelling
- Best Virtual Event
- Emerging Excellence Award
- Digital Publishing Leadership Award
- General Excellence in Digital Publishing: Small, Medium, and Large Publications
If you’re interested in submitting to the 2021 DPAs, please note that the call for entries opens on December 22, 2020 and closes on January 29, 2021. To save on fees, get your entries in by the early bird deadline of January 22, 2021.
Our Freelancer Support Fund will be available once again this year, ensuring that the Digital Publishing Awards recognize the best work from a broad range of Canadian creators.