2024

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION AWARDS

WINNER

• Essays/Commentary/Criticism – “Bearing Witness” by Bill Donahue

Finalist

• Essays/Commentary/Criticism – “Bearing Witness” by Bill Donah
• Profile (circ less than 60,000) – “Poems, a Pandemic, and a Poet Laureate” by Matt Trueher
• General Excellence 2

2023

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION AWARDS

WINNER

• Essays/Commentary/Criticism – “A Matter of Choice”, Hanna Neuschwander
• Spread Design – “Sacred Cow”, Michael Novak
• Food or Dining Feature Package – “Let’s Do Lunch”, Katherine Chew Hamilton, Michael Novak, Karen Brooks, Thomas Teal, Subin Yang, Portland Monthly Staff

FINALIST

• Feature Story – “Sacred Cow”, Ramona DeNies
• Cover Excellence – Summer, Fall, Winter
• Excellence in Design- Winter
• Magazine Section – “Dispatch”, Summer and Fall
• Online Column – “Pop Culture Deep Dive”, Conner Reed
• General Excellence

2022

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION AWARDS

FINALIST

• Food or Dining Writing – “There’s No Place Like Oma’s”, “Yes, I’m Dying on the Hill of a Pepper-Cheese Bagel”, “Meet the Bread Heads” Karen Brooks
• Design: Illustration & Graphics – “Fall in (Love With) the City”, “The Dream Michelada”, “25 Big Ideas That Could Change Portland” Fall & Summer Issues
• Excellence in Design – Fall Issue
• Magazine Section – “Dispatch” Spring & Summer Issues
• Excellence Online – pdxmonthly.com
• Multiplatform Storytelling – “The New Eat Wave”
• General Excellence

2021

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION AWARDS

FIRST PLACE

• General Excellence II
• Excellence in Design – March 2020 Issue
• Leisure/Lifestyle Interests – “The Little Joys of Summer,” Eden Dawn, Fiona McCann, Michael Novak
• Food or Dining Feature Package – “Food Fighters,” Karen Brooks, Katherine Chew Hamilton, Michael Novak

FINALIST

• Essays/Commentary/Criticism – “Dear White Portland,” Tiara Darnell
• Feature Story – “Zodiac Signs,” Jordan Michelman
• Spread Design – “Where’s the F**king Tomatoes, Channing?” Brian Breneman
• Illustration and Graphics – “The Bridge is Back” & “The Time Traveler” (January 2020); “Now What?” (May/June 2020)
• Magazine Section – “Show & Tell” (Fall/Winter 2020)
• Excellence Online – pdxmonthly.com

MAGGIE AWARDS

• Best Publication Marketing/Consumer & Trade – Digital Media Kit
• Finalist, Best Website / Consumer, Trade, Assoc. & Student – “Portland’s 20 Best Cheeseburgers,
  Exhaustively Argued and Ranked”

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS AWARD

FIRST PLACE

• Photo and Design: Portrait Photography – “Long Story Short: The Blind Woodsman,” Stuart Mullenberg, Michael Novak
• Photo and Design: Graphics & Illustration – Meredith Schomburg, Heather Landis, Matt Saunders, Michael Novak,
  Brian Breneman
• Writing: Feature, Soft News – (Tied) “Zodiac Signs,” Jordan Michelman, Nicole Rifkin, Michael Novak

SECOND PLACE

• Magazine Print Page Design – (Michael Novak, Brian Breneman)

2020

CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION AWARDS

FIRST PLACE

• Spread Design – “Oregon Is Addicted to Lottery Money,” Michael Novak
• Food or Dining Feature Package – “Good Morning,” Kelly Clarke, Michael Novak, Karen Brooks,
  Benjamin Tepler, Stuart Mullenberg
• Ancillary: Home/Shelter – Design Annual
• Ancillary: General Interest – Newcomer’s Guide

FINALIST

• General Excellence II
• Food or Dining Writing – “Kitchen Consequential,” “The Next Whiskey Bar,” “Don’t Have a Cow, Man,” Karen Brooks
• Feature Design – “How to Throw a Great (Fancy, Sporty, Weird, Divey, Kid-Friendly, Whatever), Party,” Michael Novak
• Feature Design – “Sun’s Out, Suds Out,” Brian Breneman, Michael Novak
• Cover Excellence – May, July, October 2019
• Ancillary: Weddings – Pacific Northwest Weddings

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS AWARD

FIRST PLACE

• Photography: First Place – “Sun’s Out, Suds Out,” Brian Breneman, Michael Novak

RUNNER UP

• Feature, Hard News – “Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Perceived Retaliation by Gordon Sondland,”
  Julia Silverman, Kelly Clarke, Fiona McCann, Pro Publica staff
• Photography – “Krushing It,” Holly Andres, Eden Dawn