Florida Trend earns awards from the Florida Magazine Association

Florida Trend won two awards at the recent FMA Charlie Awards.

In the category of Best Overall Writing Consumer 20K+ Circulation, Trend received a bronze award. Named on the award was Florida Trend's Executive Editor Mark Howard, Managing Editor John Annunziata, Associate Editors Jason Garcia, Mike Vogel, Amy Martinez and Art Levy.

In the category of Best Advertorial: Story or Section, Florida Trend receieved a bronze award for "Tallahassee and Leon County: Reimagining the Future." The 73-page report was designed by Anne Meyer and written by Heidi King. See the report in full here.

About these awards, Florida Trend's Deputy Publisher David Denor said, "Congratulations to both Mark and our entire Edit team and to Anne and the Marketing team for the well deserved recognition of their hard work!"

About the FMA Charlie Awards

Recognizing achievements by Florida magazines since 1957, FMA's annual Charlie Awards competition crowns publishers, writers, editors, artists, photographers, printers, marketers and others as the best among their peers in scores of categories. Juried by recognized out-of-state magazine and newspaper professionals, and college journalism professors, hundreds of entries vie for first, second and third place awards—Charlie, Silver and Bronze.

Charlie Wellborn

Charles G. "Charlie" Wellborn Jr. was a 1958 graduate and later a professor in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida in Gainesville. A Georgia native, Lt. Col. Wellborn served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War, received two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars. Starting in 1967, Professor Wellborn created courses in editing, graphics and business/technical communications that were the core of the public relations and magazine curriculum at UF for many years. His leadership of the Florida magazine industry, including FMA, earned Wellborn FMA's 1973 Achiever of the Year Award. Wellborn retired from UF in 1987 and FMA honored him by renaming its top award the "Charlie." Wellborn passed away in 2002 at age 77.