JCK Wins Three Awards

By Staff -- JCK Online, 11/1/2007 2:00:00 AM

JCK recently won two Eddie Awards and one Ozzie Award at a ceremony in New York. The Eddie Awards, sponsored by Folio magazine, honor editorial excellence, while the Ozzies honor design. Gold, silver, and bronze awards are given in each category.

Rob Bates, JCK senior editor, received a gold Eddie Award for his article “Whatever Became of Sierra Leone?” which appeared in the October 2006 issue of JCK magazine.

JCK Luxury magazine received two awards: a silver Eddie for its Winter 2007 issue, and a silver Ozzie for “Design Through the Decades” in its Summer 2006 issue. Carrie Soucy is the editor of JCK Luxury and Todd Gast is the art director.

Both Eddie Awards were for the Business to Business: Retail category of the program. The Ozzie award was in the category Best Feature Design: B-to-B Under 100,000 Circulation.

“These awards are a testament to the JCK editorial and art team's talent and dedication to excellence,” said Hedda Schupak, JCK editor-in-chief and editorial director of JCK International Publishing Group. “Together, we've won nine Folio awards in the past seven years—four gold, four silver, and one bronze—all of which not only underscore JCK's leadership position as the undisputed industry authority but also prove that we truly do know how to serve up substance and style.”

Schupak Named to 24 Karat Club

Hedda Schupak, editor-in-chief of Jewelers' Circular Keystone magazine, has been elected a member of The Twenty-Four Karat Club of the City of New York. Founded in 1902, the membership roster reads as a virtual who's who of the jewelry industry.

Schupak joined JCK in 1986 as a general reporter and production editor. From there she progressed first to senior fashion editor and later to editor of two of the JCK Group's niche publications, JCKLuxury and Trendz. In 2000, she became editorial director of the publishing group, where she has stood as an advocate for the jewelry industry and for the editorial integrity of JCK.

A popular lecturer at various industry conferences, she has received many honors and awards inside and outside the industry. In 2003, she was named one of Pennsylvania's Top 50 Women in Business, and a year later she received the Jewelry Information Center Trade Press Award.

In 2006, she was inducted into the Women's Jewelry Association Hall of Fame. She was inducted in the Karat Club along with Jerry Ehrenwald, president of the International Gemological Institute, and Glenn Markman, executive vice president of Suberi Bros.