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Gearing up for the NMAs this month, we thought a survey on the state of magazine freelancing in Canada was in order. It's also a chance to take your own picks for the best work in Canadian magazines last year (see the NMAF's list of nominees). Results of the survey will be published here on Friday, June 10, the date of the NMA gala.

The survey is embedded below, but in case it is not showing up in your browser, you can follow this link to fill it out.

[Editor's note: As D.B. Scott pointed out on his Canadian Magazines blog, the NMAs have two layers of judges: "unilingual juries, French and English selecting a list of worthy finalists; and a bilingual jury selecting the winners from those finalist lists." To describe these as "numerous" layers, as the survey did initially, was not using language as carefully as we like to around here. So we decided to take out the "numerous" part. For the sake of transparency, we thought you should know.]

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