The active age won awards for general excellence and four other categories of work in the 2018 North American Mature Newspaper Publishers Association competition. Competing in Division C, for newspapers with circulations between 50,000 and 100,000, the active age also won for coverage of topical issues, personal essay, feature writing and its annual 55+ Resource Guide.
NAMPA members publish more than 95 newspapers and magazines in the United States and Canada. The competition was judged by the University of Missouri School of Journalism.