Today’s Parent Wins Editorial Package Award for Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Campaign

I am happy to announce that the online campaign on Today’s Parent Magazine, called: Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss, has won a National Magazine Award for Best Editorial Package. The campaign features the stories of three mothers who suffered from the loss of a baby at various stages of pregnancy. I highly encourage everyone to read the stories and articles featured in the campaign.

One of the three stories featured in the campaign is mine – the story of how I lost my son Zachary, from the excitement of first discovering I was pregnant to the moment he passed away in my arms. My story is told through an interview with me combined with an overarching narrative.

“My husband and I both held Zachary skin to skin, which was really important to us. We only had just a few minutes with him… We held him and rocked him, and then he died.”- Alexis Marie Chute

Today’s Parent is a very popular, multi-award winning magazine that focuses on creating articles that help people succeed as parents, which is broad since everyone parents differently. They have various sections for each level of parenthood including pregnancy, babies, toddlers and kids. Not only did the miscarriage and pregnancy loss campaign win, but Today’s Parent was the winner of best single issue, tablet magazine of the year and single service article package.

The National Magazine Award is an institution that is committed to honouring the quality of written and visual communication in both English and French within Canada. Their goal is to promote Canadian literary artists and encourage the best possible literary and visual work. More than 200 hundred magazines submitted their work to this year’s National Magazine Awards. Out these two 200 entries only 80 were shortlisted in the 43 categories.

I’m very thankful to Today’s Parent for featuring my story in their campaign. It has been a great way for me to share my story and help people better understand what parents go through when they lose a baby. I would like to thank all of the people that contributed to this project, Today’s Parent, and the National Magazine Awards for choosing Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss for the Editorial Package Award.

 

Special Thanks to:

Ariel Brewster, Editor

Sun Ngo, Art Director

Jessica Leeder, Writer

Contributors: Dean Carter, Jenny Charlesworth, Emily Cumming, Andrew Lauder, Sonia Mendes, Teresa Pitman, Nadine Silverthorne, Haley Overland, Karen Robock, Leah Rumack, Topher Seguin, Chris Uglanica