TASTE wins big at the prestigious Eddie & Ozzie Awards 2024

TASTE has been winning awards since its inception 21 years ago. The winning streak continues in 2024, with a slew of wins at the The Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards announced yesterday in New York. This is one of the most prestigious international recognition programmes in the publishing community. This year, TASTE was a finalist in six categories and won two golds, four honourable mentions, and a special recognition award! Our parent company New Media received two special recognition awards, seven golds and six honourable mentions in total. Check out TASTE's cluster head, Kelly Cloete, showing off the awards, alongside New Media art director Christopher Evans in Times Square in New York.

 

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All the honours we received at the Eddie & Ozzie Awards 2024

The TASTE team was named team of the year. This award honours all the hard work the team has put in across various platforms, from the beloved magazine to its online communities.

“Being recognised at an international level for the work we do for Woolworths across print and digital is incredible, but getting the special award for Editorial Team of the Year, after a year of such immense change and so many milestones is what makes me proudest. This team deserves to be seen.” – Kate Wilson, head of content

Above: Part of the TASTE editorial team

Fresh from receiving the legacy award at the FOOD XX Awards, food director Abigail Donnelly won gold in the Series of Articles in  Custom Content Marketing category. Our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana was also a finalist in this category and received an honourable mention at the awards ceremony. The May/June issue of TASTE also won gold in the Full Issue section of the Custom Content Marketing category. This was our "cosy issue", which was filled with recipes for soups, autumn veg, coffee and bistro classics.

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The remaining honourable mentions were for our photographer Jan Ras in the Photography Consumer category, The TASTE Loadshedding Cookbook in the Supplemental, Annual or One Shot Consumer and Custom Content Marketing category, and the TASTE TikTok channel in the Social Media Online Community Consumer category.

"The Eddie & Ozzie Awards are the most prestigious recognition programme in the publishing community. They receive thousands of entries from around the world. I am extremely proud of our team for all the wins. It's incredible to be a part of a team of such passionate, creative and hard-working (they will stop at absolutely nothing) people." – Katharine Pope, head of digital content.