NEW YORK, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Builder Magazine and Public CIO took
honors as the Magazines of the Year, and PCWorld.com was named Web
Publication of the Year at the 29th Annual Azbee Awards of Excellence
presented by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE).
The ceremony was held at New York City's Roosevelt Hotel Thursday, the
first day of the 43-year-old organization's two-day National Editorial
Conference.
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The group's Stephen Barr Award for feature writing went to David
McClintick, an investigative reporter and author, for his feature article
in the January 2006 Institutional Investor. McClintick examined Harvard
University's disastrous contract to help privatize financial markets in
parts of the former Soviet Union.
Azbees Awards are given in 56 print, digital, and multi-platform
categories, for editorial and graphic excellence, recognizing both large
and smaller publications. This year, 41 Golds were given to organizations
in editorial fields, and 31 Golds were awarded for graphics. The biggest
winners included CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine and Computerworld, with 11
national awards each. CFO took home an evening's record nine Golds in
categories from print editorial and graphics to Website to multi-platform.
Magazines of the Year and Web Publication of the Year
For its work in 2006, Builder was recognized as the top magazine among
those of 80,000 circulation or larger, while Public CIO was honored in the
under-80,000-circulation category. Large-circulation magazines given
honorable mention in the Magazine of the Year category were BusinessWeek
and Teacher. In the under-80,000-circulation category, ASBPE gave honorable
mentions to QSR, a magazine covering for those in the quick-service
restaurant industry, and Residential Architect.
The judges said Builder is "editorially challenging -- takes gutsy
approaches to issues -- examines major national issues and their affect on
readers -- transcendent reporting -- meets its mission well -- great
typography." Of Public CIO, the judges said "Top tier -- compelling
information everyone has an interest in -- brings ordinary subject matter
to higher level -- goes above and beyond -- great magazine without
flaunting itself -- appears effortless -- reader friendly."
For honorable mention in the Web Publication of the Year competition
won by PCWorld.com, ASBPE named CFO.com, eWeek.com, and Macworld.com.
Judges called PCWorld.com "well-organized, authoritative, informative, and
entertaining. Inventory of how-to videos is a big plus. The presence of
video for describing tips, test drives, and case studies, coupled with
interactive attributes such as polls and tips from readers, enable
PCWorld's Web site to be one of the most useful Web sites of its kind.
Clean look backed by solid content."
This year ASBPE added categories recognizing excellence in digital Web
publications, e-newsletters, digital magazines, and blogs. Another category
likely to serve as a harbinger of the future was Multi-Platform General
Excellence, won by CFO, honoring excellence in coordination of print with
other mediums such as Web sites, e-newsletters, blogs, Webinars, or
podcasts. New categories were also added for print newsletters, which now
vie for top honors for best feature article, how-to article, or original
research.
Barr Award Winner Combines Distinctive Writing, Great Reporting
David McClintick, the Stephen Barr Award winner, is the consummate
investigative reporter, known for works like 1982's film-industry study
Indecent Exposure, and for definitive magazine reports written for such
publications as Forbes and Vanity Fair. His story for Institutional
Investor took readers back to the 1990s, when Russia stumbled toward
establishing a free-market economy in Eastern Europe. The January 2006
piece focused on the depths of global political intrigue and corruption,
but taught as much about the heights of hubris-at Harvard. The university
had let professors engage, unchecked, in self-dealing as they became
tangled in the malaise. Emerging for Institutional Investor readers was
Harvard's "apparently limitless arrogance," as one judge put it. ASBPE's
fourth annual Stephen Barr Award, accompanied by a $500 cash prize, is
named for a CFO reporter who died in 2002 at the age of 43.
"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 effectively managing a
401k, to insights about the salaries and attitudes chief information
officers."
At the Azbee Awards banquet, famed magazine designer and author Jan
White accepted the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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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