The Society for News Design recently announced the 2017 Best of Digital Design results from a pool of over 1,000 entries. The Globe and Mail received 11 Awards of Excellence for News Design and 14 Awards of Excellence and one Silver Medal for Digital Design. See the full list here, and a PDF of Globe winners here.
Eleven Canadian organizations win Employee Recommended Workplace Awards
On March 20, Morneau Shepell and The Globe and Mail announced the category winners of the second annual Employee Recommended Workplace Award at The Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto. These were the organizations with the top Total Health scores in their business categories, representing privately owned, public, not-for-profit, and government sectors in the small, mid-sized and large business categories. They will be profiled nationally in The Globe and Mail on Tuesday, March 27. Read more...
The Globe and Mail leads National Newspaper Award nominations
In-depth coverage of the killing of Muslim worshippers at a Quebec City mosque, reporting on questionable sexual-assault policing in Canada, an examination of torture and corruption in Asia and an essay on asylum seekers crossing into Manitoba were recognized within The Globe and Mail’s pack-leading 18 nominations for the National Newspaper Awards. Read more...
Globe wins business writing award
Congratulations to The Globe and Mail’s retailing reporter Marina Strauss, whose Report on Business magazine story “Inside the messy transformation of Tim Hortons” won the Retail – Medium award at the Society of Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Best in Business Awards. Read the story (for subscribers only) and the behind-the-scenes.
With Lab 351, The Globe and Mail is creating both new products and a culture of “bottom-up” innovation
"A driving principle for the incubator is to make it so “ideas can bubble up from the bottom, or the middle, or the top” of the organization." Read the Nieman Lab story by Richardo Bilton here.
Globe and Mail shares 5 tips for successful podcast
After producing two successful podcast series, The Globe and Mail commissioned The Canadian Podcast Listener Study to learn more about podcast audiences. This research produced valuable data on this new audience segment. Read more of this INMA blog post by Katrina Bolak here.
Canadian political ads on Facebook – what are you seeing?
With three provincial elections looming in 2018 (Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), political parties are gearing up their Facebook ad campaigns. But what are Canadians seeing on their feeds?
The Globe and Mail wants to find out. Because Facebook can specifically target ads that can only be seen by a defined group of people (such as university educated women with children who work in finance), it’s almost impossible to tell who is being promised what. Read more...
Fifty-three organizations recognized as Employee Recommended Workplaces for 2018
Today, Morneau Shepell and The Globe and Mail announced 53 Employee Recommended Workplaces for 2018, in the second annual Employee Recommended Workplace Award. These organizations have achieved high standards for healthy workplaces, as reported by their employees, and have earned to right to use the Employee Recommended Workplace badge in their communication material to identify them as employers of choice. Read more...
The Globe and Mail and Sportradar release NHL predictor hub
The Globe and Mail and Sportradar US, LLC today released The Forecheck, an NHL predictor and the first by a major news outlet, available at https://tgam.ca/forecheck.
The predictor forecasts individual game outcomes, along with current playoff probabilities for each NHL team. Game statistics are loaded into the predictor after each game.
The Globe and Mail remains Canada's top publisher brand
The Globe and Mail maintains its leadership in national weekly print and digital readership, according to the 2017 Q3 Vividata results. Read more...