CHICAGO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Computerworld and CSO, two
publications of IDG Group in Framingham, Mass., took honors as the
Magazines of the Year in the 28th Annual Azbee Awards of Excellence
presented by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE).
The group's 2006 Stephen Barr Award for feature writing went to Shabnam
Mogharabi, a Los Angeles-based business editor, for a series of articles in
Aquatics International explaining why American minority youths account for
a disproportionate percentage of drowning deaths.
Stan Modic, senior editorial advisor and columnist at Nelson
Publishing, accepted the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award at
ASBPE's ceremony, held in Chicago Thursday night, July 20, as part of the
organization's National Editorial Conference.
Modic exhorted business-to-business editors to give more attention to
reader needs, noting that it is the "editor's responsibility to insure that
business magazines serve the reader first-for only in that way can we serve
the advertiser best."
He added, "The ASBPE has updated its code of ethics ["Guide To
Preferred Editorial Practices"]. Now we have to insure that we live by it."
Magazines of the Year
For its work in 2005, Computerworld was recognized as the top magazine
among those of 80,000 circulation or larger, while CSO, a publication for
security executives of companies, was honored in the
under-80,000-circulation category.
Large circulation magazines given honorable mention in the Magazine of
the Year category were CFO, a publication for finance executives, and CIO,
which targets information executives. Boston-based CFO is part of The
Economist Group, while CIO also is an IDG publication in Framingham.
In the under-80,000-circulation category, ASBPE gave honorable mentions
to Information Security, a Tech Target publication based in Needham, Mass.,
and Meetings & Conventions, which belongs to Secaucus, N.J.-based Northstar
Travel Media.
Judges Comments
Judges said of Computerworld that it was "packed with useful
information with never a fluffy issue-difficult for any monthly magazine,
and they do it weekly."
About CSO, judges noted that it "takes risks with subject matter," and
that "design and copy complement each other extraordinarily well," with
covers that "have attitude."
Computerworld and CSO also were among the largest winners of individual
national Azbee Gold Awards from ASBPE, garnering five each. Each had also
won the Magazine of the Year award previously, in 2004.
Azbees are given in 40 categories. Fifteen magazines won Golds in
editorial categories; 23 in graphics, and six in digital.
Barr Winner Writes With Sensitivity About Drownings
Mogharabi, the Barr Award winner, is the business editor of Aquatics
International's Hanley Wood sister publication, Pool & Spa News. She had
only recently received her masters degree from Northwestern University's
Medill School of Journalism when she began exploring the high percentage of
drownings involving blacks and Hispanics in America.
Her sensitive yet dispassionate handling of the complex, emotional
issue appeared in the October and November 2005 issues of Aquatics
International. ASBPE's third annual Stephen Barr Award, accompanied by a
$500 cash prize, is named in memory of a CFO magazine contributing editor
who died in 2002 at the age of 43.
Mogharabi was also a winner of one of ASBPE's Young Leader Scholarships
that provides free registration to the Society's National Editorial
Conference.
"Last year was a great one for business-to-business publications," said
Roy Harris, ASBPE's national president and a senior editor of CFO. "Winning
entries helped readers understand everything from the continuing surge in
Chinese markets to the latest shocks from information technology, to new
ways in which computers are used in making animated movies."
ASBPE's annual National Editorial Conference was held at the Embassy
Suites Chicago Downtown Lakefront Hotel on July 20 and 21.
Founded in 1964, the 750-member ASBPE (http://www.asbpe.org/ ) is the
only professional association in the United States exclusively for
full-time and freelance editors and writers employed by business,
professional, association, and trade magazines, newsletters, and digital
publications. Its headquarters are located at 214 N. Hale St., Wheaton,
Ill. Executive director Janet Svazas is reachable at (630) 510-4588.
SOURCE American Society of Business Publication Editors
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CONTACT:
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Svazas for American Society of Business Publication Editors,
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