Gulfshore Media was awarded five first-place Charlie Awards for: Best Overall Magazine, SARASOTA Magazine; Best Special Theme or Show Issue for “Tales from the Wind,” Gulfshore Life; Best Feature for “The Finest Kind” by Ceil Nelson, Gulfshore Life; Best Column for “Not for Profit” by Ilene Denton, Sarasota/Manatee BUSINESS; and Best Photo Illustration for December 2003 cover, Stephanie Dalton Cowan, Gulfshore Life

Four Silver awards were won for: Best Overall Design, Jeanette Bakowski, creative director, SARASOTA Magazine; Best Overall Use of Photography, Tessa Tilden Smith, creative director, Gulfshore Life; Best Feature Design for “Rosemary Revives,” Jeanette Bakowski, SARASOTA Magazine; Best Single Original B&W Photo for “Yoders,” by J.B. McCourtney, SARASOTA Magazine. Six Bronze Awards were won for: Best Special Theme or Show Issue for the 25th Anniversary Issue, SARASOTA Magazine; Best Feature (three awards total) for “Lost in the Glades” by Sean Ryan, Gulfshore Life, “Seriously Funny” by Susan Burns,

SARASOTA Magazine and “This American Life” by Susan Burns, Sarasota/Manatee BUSINESS; Best Humor for “My Turn in the Jury Box” by Bob Plunket, SARASOTA Magazine; and Best

Single, Original Color Photo, “For the Love of the Game” by Andrea Hillebrand, SARASOTA Magazine.

“Our publishing team has proven time and time again their capacity for excellence,” says Jimmy Dean, president and publisher of Gulfshore Media. “To work with this ever-evolving group of professionals is an honor, and I congratulate each of our staff persons on these achievements.”

The Florida Magazine Association Charlie Awards are named for Charles G. Welborn, Jr., a well-known and much-admired professor of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. More than 840 entries in 75 categories were part of this year’s competition, and were critiqued by a panel of 25 judges, all top professionals from outside Florida.