28 June 2012, TORONTO
Tomorrow Friday june29 marks the final day to enter the Canadian Online Publishing Awards
(COPA) to show off your talents in the digital publishing realm. Entries must be
submitted online by midnight. Enter here.
Meanwhile, the list of COPA judges
continues to grow. Newest judges added include:
Jean
Snow, Online Writer; Founder,TheMagaziner.com; Executive Director,
PechaKucha Organization, Tokyo
Alana Coates, Digital News
Editor, Montreal Gazette
Amber MacArthur, Technology Host;
Journalist and Strategist; Producer of Webnation
Asmaa
Malik, Deputy Managing Editor, Montreal Gazette
Charles
Lim, Digital Director, Spafax Interactive
Dan Levy,
Editor, Sparksheet
Lucie Dumas, VP Content and Branding, TVA
Publications
Tom Gierasimczuk, Editor in Chief, Marketing
Magazine
For a full list of judges to date, visit the COPA page.
To avoid any conflicts of interest,
judges are placed in three-person panels in categories for which they or their
employers and competitors have not entered. All the COPA categories are posted here.
The COPAs have also announced that
Canadian Art and B.C. Medical Journal are the winners in the
early-bird entry giveaway contest. Each has won a $1,300 pass to the Folio
Show/Media Next event this October in New York City.
The COPA entry
giveaway continues, with four copies of the min Mobile App Report (value $399
each) and six passes to min digital publishing webinars (value $329 each) up for
grabs.
New for 2012, all COPA winners, finalists, judges and sponsors
will be published in the COPA Yearbook: The Who’s Who of Digital Publishing in
Canada, a special case-bound book.
The COPA Awards event takes place
Oct. 22 at a new venue, The Hoxton, at Bathurst and King streets in downtown
Toronto.
