The Canadian Online Publishing Awards COPA 2013 JUDGES

By Janet Mtanos Last updated Apr 28, 2018

COPA 2013 JUDGES

Sept. 16, 2013 — COPA finalists announced
November 2013 — Awards Party

We have brought together some of the best industry minds in advertising, art direction, broadcast, digital, newspapers, magazines and web design to be on the judging panels this year. We are honoured to have these people as judges this year for COPA 2013. We thank them for their time and support.

Alanna Glicksman

Alanna Glicksman is the digital marketing and community manager for MasterCard Canada. She is responsible for social strategy and implementation, with a key focus on managing Canada’s social communities. Alanna oversees MasterCard Canada’s social media properties, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest, and helps drive various digital marketing and communications programs. Previously, Alanna was a consultant at Hill+Knowlton Strategies, an international public relations agency. She holds a BA (honours) from Western Ontario and a post-graduate certificate in public relations from Humber College.

Anders Knudsen

Avenue magazine’s original art director, Anders has stewarded the hugely successful brand through two of the publishing industry’s most tumultuous decades. Along the way, he became creative director for RedPoint Media & Marketing Solutions (publisher of Avenue), earning local and national awards both for his design work on Avenue and his brand development for other magazines and creative clients. He’s an expert on visual storytelling, with an in-the-trenches perspective on the limitless creative possibilities of print media.

Andrew Yates

Andrew Yates is the Senior Producer of Community and Social Media and CBC News. For almost 15 years he has worked at the intersection of digital and broadcast news. Prior to CBC News, Andrew has produced, written, curated and moderated news for National Post, Discovery Channel, CTV and City TV

Ashleigh McKenna

Ashleigh is an independent digital strategist with more than 10 years of online editorial experience. After a short stint as a newspaper reporter she began working in women’s lifestyle media, focusing on content and product development, brand building, and hitting business targets.

Bill Mickey

Bill Mickey is the editorial director of Folio: magazine at Red 7 Media, a division of Access Intelligence. Bill joined Red 7 Media in 2004 and has held a variety of positions within its Publishing Group, including managing editor of Folio:, executive editor of Audience Development, and executive editor of Expo magazine.

Bruno Boutot

Bruno Boutot is consultant on Web Strategy, Media, eCommerce and Online Communities. He is a former award-winning journalist, co-founder of infopresse and BlogExperts. www.boutotcom.com

Caroline Bishop

Caroline Bishop is a freelance creative director who specializes in editorial design for both magazines and consumer brands. She has extensive experience with both print and digital platforms including interactive ads and an iPad App. Her clients include Holt Renfrew, Joe Fresh, The Kit, Murale and Shoppers Drug Mart.www.carolinebishop.com

Charlene Rooke

Charlene Rooke is the Group Editor of Globe Edge, the custom-media department within The Globe and Mail. She has been an editor of print and digital consumer (Western Living, Avenue Calgary) and custom (Air Canada’s enRoute, LCBO’s Food & Drink, Fairmont magazine, Mercedes-Benz Magazine) publications for 20 years and is the author of two travel guidebooks.

Charles Lim

Charles Lim is the Digital Director of Spafax and the Design Director of Sparksheet. He comes from a design/development background and is an aficionado of video games and pop culture. His personal site is chedonline.com and he tweets@chedonline.

Chris Skinner

Chris Skinner is an online media executive with more than 15 years digital experience in content development, product development, production, design and strategic direction. He is currently the head of digital for CTV at Bell Media. Prior to joining CTV, Chris held several senior digital positions at St. Joseph Media, publishers of Toronto Life, Fashion, Canadian Family, and Weddingbells.

Dan Levy

Dan Levy is the editor of Sparksheet, Spafax’s multiplatform media and marketing magazine. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University and worked as a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, where he studied and scribbled about online media. Follow him on Twitter @danjl.

Dave Jaffer

Dave Jaffer has spent his career in journalism, communications, education, and advertising. He lives in Toronto, works at MacLaren McCann, and tweets like it’s going out of style (@combatdavey).

Deborah Hall

Deborah has helped shape the digital and mobile marketing space in Canada, as chairperson of Digital Day conferences for Marketing Magazine and the CMA. She joined Torstar Digital in 2010, when the company acquired her mobile technology company, Web2Mobile. Named by Mobile Marketer as one of the Mobile Women to Watch in 2010, she is a sought-after speaker and collaborator in the North American mobile technology industry.

Dominique Jerry-Shore

Dominique is a Montreal-based journalist. She has worked as City Editor of OpenFile Montreal, an online news site that relied in part on story suggestions from its readers. Her previous work experience includes online editor at the thestar.com, as well as reporter for The Canadian Press. Dominique was born and raised in Montreal but has lived in the Yukon, Australia, Mexico and Toronto. She currently works as a researcher for Influence Communications.

Duncan Clark

Duncan Clark is charged with developing projects across all Postmedia platforms and is primarily tasked with leading the company’s startup-inspired skunkworks office, Postmedia Labs. The team at Labs is working developing new, sustainable, social- and community-focused experiences to go alongside Gastropost, a thriving product for food lovers that launched last year.

Emma Woolley

Emma Woolley is a Toronto writer, advocate and community manager. After studying English and book and magazine publishing, she joined Cottage Life Media as a web editor and later, digital content manager. Emma now works at design/development agency The Phuse as a community manager, and is a regular contributor to theglobeandmail.com and elsewhere.

Erica Kirkland

Erica Kirkland is the Editor of Retail News, Canada’s leading business-to-business magazine for retailers and resellers of gifts, home decor, housewares, stationery, handmade goods, personal care, jewellery, seasonal decorations, home textiles, wall art, decorative accessories, and much more.

Florence Butihen

Florence Butihen has been in the advertising industry for over 10 years with an early start working within the research sector. Her early years were focused within planning traditional media across major CPG clients including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and L’Oreal Paris. She is currently at ZenithOptimedia as an Integrated Account Manager overseeing both Kia Canada and Hasbro Canada’s digital campaigns.

Gail J. Cohen

One of Canada’s most experienced and respected legal journalists, Editor in Chief Gail J. Cohen oversees content for Canadian Lawyer, InHouse, 4Students and Law Times, the Legal Feeds blog,and their associated web sites and digital initiatives. A journalist for 20 years — 17 devoted solely to the legal profession — she started her career in daily news and now oversees a team at Thomson Reuters Canada.

Gary Graves

Gary Graves has been an Executive Producer at CBC News Online since 2011. Previously, he was producer in charge of online news features and in-depth articles, and also responsible for local CBC News websites across Canada. He’s been working in online news since 2000, after moving from network television news.

Gavin Adamson

Gavin Adamson is am assistant prof at Ryerson University, where he has worked as an instructor since 2008. In the industry, Gavin worked for Bloomberg News and Transcontinental Medias, where he conceived of and launched their online video platform, IETV. Gavin was also nominated for a Gemini Award for a broadcast documentary he co-produced as a freelancer for several years.

Gord Kerr

With almost 30 years in client side marketing and advertising, Gord’s expertise shifted early as consumers began embracing all things digital. He led the ‘Client First’ advertising evolution at RBC before turning his attention to online lead generation, content development and most recently, the corporate use of social media to drive business results. Follow Gord on Twitter at @gordkerr1.

Haig Tossounian

Haig Tossounian, Vice President of Access Strategic Design & Communications Inc., has over 30 years of expertise in strategic branding and marketing for the B2B marketplace. Focused on global business development and sales in Technology, Telecom and Professional Services, Haig promotes branding and marketing initiatives consistent with corporate business goals and objectives. He continues to develop and implement marketing campaigns that drive sales and build brand loyalty through cross-media platforms.

Holly Pateman

Holly Pateman is the Vice President of Marketing for Canada Wide Media Ltd. where she oversees the strategic and creative development for all corporate and brand-based marketing initiatives. Having spent the past 15 years working across multiple marketing landscapes, including agency, retail, start-up and publishing, her passions and affinities are rooted in marketing innovation and digital media.

Ian Kilvert

Ian has spent all of his professional career in the Marketing Communications field: first at advertising agencies and most recently as the General Manager, Corporate Brand Management at Panasonic Canada. His newest venture is called Get SET, a MarCom consultancy specializing in Sports, Entertainment and Technology sponsorships.

Irene Fu

Irene Fu is a digital professional with almost 20 years of experience since the earliest days of the Web, when PINE was the email client of choice. Currently, Irene is the Web Architect for the Toronto District School Board, leading and supporting digital projects and social media strategy. In her previous position, Irene was Web Development Manager for Business Information Group, the largest trade publisher in Canada. She was key in developing and executing digital strategies encompassing all business areas and social media, and oversaw dozens of digital properties and initiatives.

Jacqueline Kovacs

Jacqueline Kovacs has been an editor and a writer for more than two decades — and a blogger and Tweeter for far fewer years. Currently editor-in-chief of Professionally Speaking, she is also a regular presenter for Magazines Canada and creator of an online course for Cultural Human Resources Council showing editors how to adapt embrace digitization.

Jason Miller

Jason Miller is a St. John’s-based Art Director with Atlantic Business Magazine. He has over 15 years’ experience in the graphic arts industry. Previously, he was an instructor at the College of North Atlantic, teaching night courses in Quark and Adobe. He won best Table of Contents at the 2009 Tabbie International Business Press Awards, and won Best Cover at the 2012 Atlantic Journalism Awards.

Jean Snow

Jean Snow is Executive Director of the Pecha Kucha organization. A longtime resident of Tokyo, he lives and breathes design, pop culture and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, and runs The Magazine, a website about magazine culture.

JP Fozo

JP Fozo works on the digital strategy for MoneySense, Maclean’s and Canadian Business magazines and gets excited about everything from innovative storytelling, design, user experience, business analysis, project management, product management, technology, sales processes, analytics, web, apps, social and mobile to overall brand strategy. JP has a BA from McGill and an MBA from Ryerson.

Julia Holliday

Julia is the Director of digital marketing for the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation and provides strategic direction, planning and execution for a full range of integrated marketing programs. She leads a team of mobile, social, digital marketing and project management professionals to market Ontario as a preferred travel destination to attract Canadian and international tourists. Julia’s previous experience includes strategic marketing roles for BMO E-Business Division and Aon Reed Stenhouse, one of North America’s largest insurance brokerages.

Kathy Vey

Kathy Vey is a veteran Toronto journalist. She has been executive editor of QPBriefing.com and was founding editor in chief of OpenFile, Canada’s first collaborative local news website. Previously she worked at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Sun, and wrote for Canadian Gardening magazine.

Kenneth Maclean

Kenneth Maclean is the principal consultant atCommunity Niche, and he assists consumer brands and online publishers in the development of digital marketing strategies and “Beyond the Banner” revenue programs such as content sponsorships, and directory listings. Previously, Kenneth was the VP Digital for Post Media Network and St Joseph Media, where he managed leading digital publications including montrealgazette.com, torontolife.com, where.ca, fashionmagazine.com, weddingbells.ca, and recipes.ca, an online cooking community which he co-founded.

Kerry Powell

After a dozen reporting and editing jobs in as many years in the Edmonton Journal newsroom, Kerry is now Director of Digital Products, where her focus is on development of new digital revenue sources to support good journalism. In the treacherous and evolving landscape of the news industry, she sees herself as an intermediary; someone who understands and respects traditional production methods and as well as the new ones, and can help ease, encourage and speed up the transition.

Kim Elliott

Kim Elliott has been Publisher of the independent media site rabble.ca since 2006. Founded in 2001 as a national site for news and opinion, rabble.ca is a now a non-profit site that reaches more than 400,000 unique visitors month.

Kim Machado

Kim is an independent digital media consultant who sets strategic direction and focuses on delivering digital growth and profitability for a wide variety of Canada’s consumer and business publishing magazine brands.

Kim Peacock

Kim Peacock and has over 20 years’ experience on the publishing, client and now the agency side as the GM of Edleman Canada West. Prior to joining Edelman, Kim was Director, Global Marketing, for HootSuite. Kim has spent 13 years at the executive level in publishing, as Group Publisher for TC Media’s Western Media Group, where she rebranded its flagship titles, Vancouver magazine and Western Living for the digital world. Prior to that, she was Associate Publisher at Toronto Life and Saturday Night magazines in Toronto.

Leah Sandals

Leah Sandals is Online Editor at Canadian Art, Canada’s most widely read art magazine. Prior to holding that post, she was a freelance arts journalist contributing to the National Post, Toronto Star and Globe and Mail. In 2012, Canadian Art won two COPA golds: best online-only article or series of articles and best e-newsletter.

Leo Charbonneau

Leo Charbonneau has been an editor for more than 25 years, specializing in the areas of science, medicine and higher education. Most of those years were spent with Rogers Communications’ publishing division before he joined University Affairs magazine in 2000 as Deputy Editor. He started his Margin Notes blog in 2008. The blog has twice won the gold medal for best blog – in the trade and education publishing division – at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards, in 2009 and again in 2012.

Lucie Dumas

Vice President Content, Group Publisher of TVA Publications.

Lynn McAuley

Lynn McAuley is an Associate Editor at the Toronto Star where she is responsible for foreign coverage and enterprise projects. Before this, she ran digital news coverage on thestar.com for two years, winning a COPA for best newspaper site and leading online coverage of the G20 which was part of the Star’s National Newspaper Award for breaking news. Lynn spent 22 years at the Ottawa Citizen, where she was the managing editor for four years.

Marcos Terenzio

Marcos Terenzio is a strategic Creative Director, designer and digital visionary with over 20 years’ experience in advertising. He leads his own boutique agency Spot Digital and created and launched Alchemy the digital agency for St. Joseph Communications (one of the largest privately held communications companies in Canada). He specializes in integrated omni-channel approaches centred around digital mediums to effectively engage, communicate, captivate and deliver results on business objectives.

Matthew Blacket

Matthew Blackett is the publisher, creative director and one of the founders of Spacing magazine. Blackett was named Editor of the Year for 2007 by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors and Spacing was named Canadian Small Magazine of the Year from 2007 to 2009. Blackett is the co-recipient of the 2010 Jane Jacobs Prize for “contributing to the fabric of Toronto life in a unique way… that has become a part of our shared urban experience.”

Monique Savin

Monique Savin is a freelance lifestyle writer and digital publisher from Toronto, of Jamaican, Jewish-Italian, British, and French descent. She contributes to such newsstand stalwarts as The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star plus writing positions at scruffy dailies and glossies for the upwardly mobile. A two-part interview for Runner’s World magazine, profilingFlea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, earned 12,000 Facebook likes. Savin is the author of Best. Meal. Ever! for Livestrong.com. Savin also creates iPad apps that optimize content, technology, and business opportunities for anyone with a compelling story to tell.

Nicola Clayton

Nicola Clayton is founder of Manhattan-based Luxury Media Sales – a global ad rep and media buying firm. Formerly, as Vice President at Maclean’s, Clayton created the first Marketing Solutions department in Canada; marketed the launch of Yahoo.ca and pioneered many new lines of revenue for the magazine. Rogers transferred Nicola to Manhattan in 2000 to establish their first multi-platform consumer ad sales office. An avid runner, she recently crossed the finish line at the Tokyo marathon and is in training for Chicago.

Niel Hiscox

Niel Hiscox is President of Universus Media Group Inc., a business-to-business and custom publisher based in Markham, Ontario. Previously, he was the VP of CLB Media Inc and president of the Automotive/Aviation division of Annex Publishing & Printing Inc. Neil is a dedicated industry volunteer as a board member of Magazine Canada (current) and the Canadian Business Press.

Norm Lourenco

Norm is Creative Director and founder of K9 Design Co. With 25 years of experience directing, strategizing and designing publications for such clients as Rogers, Ski Canada Magazine, Alternatives Journal, Homes & Cottages, Metro News, Norm is truly a “publication expert.” Over the years, Norm has also assisted TELUS, Bell, Sirius, BMO Nesbitt Burns, American Express and countless entrepreneurial, professional and non-profit clients with their design and communications opportunities.

Patricia Gray

Patricia Gray, Managing Director, Digital Solutions Media Experts was among the first media professionals to specialize in Digital Media in Canada playing a seminal role in launching the Digital Solutions Department at Media Experts in 2001. With more than 15 years in the business, and a graduate of McGill in Communications, Patricia also studied Fine Art and Film which inform the creative flair she brings to her planning and strategy.

Patrick Walsh

Over his 30-year career, Outdoor Canada Editor-in-Chief and Brand Manager Patrick Walsh has worked in a variety of media, both in Canada and abroad. The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors has named him Editor of the Year three times, along withOutdoor Canada as Magazine of the Year (medium circulation). He enjoys Tweeting, Pinning, Vining and blogging.

Paul Bies

Paul Bies, President Mystique Brand Communications co-founded the company in 1986. By combining left brain strategy with compelling right brain creative Paul enjoys producing and implementing complete branding solutions and marketing strategies that help his clients meet their business goals and objectives. Paul has helped organizations of all sizes, in many vertical markets, position themselves, build brand awareness and create thought leadership that engages consumers on multiple levels.

Philippe Gohier

Philippe Gohier is the Montreal-based managing editor (digital) of L’actualité. Prior to joining L’actualité, Philippe played a similar role at Maclean’s and was the senior editor at enRoute magazine. Despite being born in Quebec City, he is a diehard fan of the Montreal Canadiens.

Shane Schick

Shane Schick is a writer, editor and speaker to helps people create value with information technology. He is a technology columnist with Yahoo Canada, an editor-at-large with IT World Canada, the editor of Allstream’s expertIP online community and the editor of a U.S. magazine about mobile apps called FierceDeveloper. Shane was previously IT World Canada’s Vice-President, Content & Community (Editor-in-Chief), leading a digital-first strategy that included a transition from print publications to online portals and magazines.

Shannon Emmerson

A publishing pro with 15+ years of digital experience and six magazine site launches under her belt, Shannon Emmerson owns and operates Forge & Spark Media, a Vancouver-based custom content agency that helps brands and businesses tell smart stories online.

Sheldon Sawchuk

Throughout his career, Sheldon has led digital strategy and production for many of Canada’s top broadcasting and publishing brands including 680News, CHFI and Maclean’s Magazine. He joined the National Post in 2009 and currently leads the digital product team who were recognized in 2012 by the Canadian Online Publishing Awards with a Gold medal for Best Overall Companion website in Canada.

Sonny Wong

Sonny is president and creative director of Hamazaki Wong Marketing Group, an award-winning marketing-communications agency based in Vancouver. with expertise in multicultural marketing. Sonny co-founded and is producer of the annual Leo Awards, BC’s awards program for the film and television industry. Sonny was general manager of the annual Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival, the largest and most celebrated dragon boat event in North America.

Tara Tucker

Tara is the publisher of Chatelaine and has Tara has overseen the brand’s growth into new multi-platform extensions including a radio, TV and digital apps. Tara has more than 20 years of global sales and marketing expertise and her past experience includes a stint in New York at Conde Nast Publications responsible for sales, marketing and promotion initiatives with retailers such as Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy’s.

Val Maloney

Val Maloney is the associate editor of Media in Canada and a contributor to sister publications Strategy and Playback. She has over five years experience in the Canadian digital and print magazine world, notably working as editor of Masthead Online.

Valerie White

Valerie White is a seasoned b-to-b editor who began her career with Marketing Magazine at Maclean Hunter (now Rogers Publishing). While not a doctor, Valerie played one in print for several years in her senior role at the Medical Post. In 2009 she made the jump to online, where she helped launch CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, a multi-disciplinary website for health professionals. Since then, Valerie has been hands-on in the daily management of the site, which she affectionately calls her “cranky baby.”

Vanessa Wyse

Originally from Australia, Vanessa Wyse is the Creative Director of The Grid in Toronto. In only 2 years, the hybrid publication was named one of the Worlds Best Designed Newspapers by SND in both 2012 and 2013. The Grid has also been recognized with numerous other awards from SPD, SND and Canadian National Magazine Awards. Previous to The Grid, Vanessa has designed for numerous magazines including Report on Business magazine and Cosmopolitan Australia.

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