InPublishing: BSME Talent Awards 2023: Winners announced

The BSME annual ceremony for up-and-coming talent in the magazine and digital publishing industry was held by the British Society of Magazine Editors this week at the new music venue STEREO in Covent Garden, London.

The ceremony is one of the highlights of the BSME’s calendar, says the society, designed to celebrate editorial excellence and innovation across digital and print publications in the UK.

Winners included Empire's features writer, Alex Godfrey, the PodPod Team for Best Innovation, gal-dem for the Diversity and Inclusion Award, while the Best of the Best Award went to Morgan Meaker from Wired.

A total of 22 teams, journalists and creatives were awarded a BSME Talent Award.

The BSME Talent Awards 2023 winners were as follows:

BEST SUBBING/PRODUCTION TEAM

Jon Squire, Lucy Brown, Naeemah Miah, Danny Lyle - Inside Housing

BEST SECTION EDITOR/TEAM

Meena Alexander - Stylist

Highly commended - Clinical editor Caroline Price - Pulse, Nursing in Practice, The Pharmacist

BEST ART TEAM

Lauren Atkinson-Smith, Lauren Gamp, Rosie Klein, Kelly McKenna, Oliver Puglisi, Becky Redman, Dean Reynolds - National Geographic Traveller (UK)

BEST DESIGNER

Jaime Lee - cosmopolitan.com/uk

BEST PICTURE EDITOR

Oliver Puglisi - National Geographic Traveller (UK)

BEST WRITER – B2B

Rachel Carter - Pulse

BEST WRITER – BEAUTY, FASHION & LIFESTYLE

Tara Ledden - Fabulous

BEST WRITER – SPECIALIST

Morgan Meaker - Wired

Highly commended - Alex Hughes - BBC Science in Focus

Highly commended - Peter Blackburn - The Doctor

BEST WRITER – NEWS

Julia Robinson - The Pharmaceutical Journal

BEST WRITER – FEATURES

Alex Godfrey - Empire

BEST DEPUTY EDITOR

Sofia Lind - Pulse

Highly commended - Amelia Duggan - National Geographic Traveller (UK)

UNSUNG HERO

Holly Bullock - Stylist

BEST VIDEO TEAM

Which? Video & Audio team Angus Farquhar, Matthew Harms, Aodhán Gregory, Josh Reeves, Grace Forell, Lucia Ariano, Harry Kind - which.co.uk

Highly commended - Rachael Clarke + Team Rachael Clarke + team - Fabulous

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Which? Instagram Reels Hannah Ballantyne, Harry Tattersall-Smith, Oliver Abel, Angus Farquhar, Aodhán Gregory, Matthew Harms, Josh Reeves, Grace Forell, Lucia Ariano, Harry Kind - which.co.uk

BEST INNOVATION

PodPod PodPod editorial team - PodPod

BEST CAMPAIGN

Cyberflashing Jessica Barrett, Emma Rowley, Anna Silverman, Georgia Aspinall - Grazia, Grazia Daily

BEST PODCAST

Growing up with gal-dem podcast gal-dem - Gal-Dem

Highly commended - The PJ Pod Dawn Connelly, Carolyn Wickware, Nigel Praities, Geoff Marsh - The Pharmaceutical Journal

BEST AFFILIATE TEAM

Glamour Affiliates Team Sophie Cockett, Georgia Trodd, Lucy Smith, Denise Primbet - Glamour UK

Highly commended - Conde Nast Traveller, Commerce Lauren Burvill - Conde Nast Traveller UK

BEST USE OF DATA JOURNALISM

Ellie Simmonds, Bobby Nicholls - Which? Magazine