ASBPE
names Magazine of the Year, Web Site of
the Year and Multi-Platform Award finalists
Winners to be
announced at July 24 banquet.
The American Society
of Business Publications named
the top-performing magazines and Web sites
as the finalists for the Magazine of the
Year, Web site of the Year and Multi-Platform
awards.
The organization
will honor the nation’s top business-to-business
publications as part of its 30th annual
Azbee
Awards of Excellence competition.
ASBPE will present awards to the winners
at an evening banquet July 24 at the Intercontinental
Hotel on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas
City, Mo., during its annual two-day National
Editorial Conference. ASBPE will announce
one Magazine of the Year and two Honorable
Mentions in each
circulation division, and a Web Site of
the Year and two Honorable Mentions, at
the awards banquet. The society also will
announce a winner of the Multi-Platform — General
Excellence award, along with two Honorable
Mentions.
Award Finalists
The society will present
two Magazine of the Year Awards, one in
the 80,000-circulation-and-over division
and another in the under-80,000-circulation
division.
ASBPE named these finalists in the 80,000-and-over
division:
- American Medical News,
- Builder,
- Business
Week,
- CFO,
- Computerworld,
- Fortune
Small Business,
- Institutional Investor,
- Overdrive,
- PC World and
- Restaurants & Institutions.
These finalists were named in the under-80,000
division:
- Architect,
- Control Design,
- Emergency Management,
- Exhibitor,
- HealthLeaders,
- Information
Security,
- Meetings & Conventions,
- PCT,
- Storage,
- The Scientist.
To recognize excellence in online B2B
journalism, ASBPE also identified the
following 10 online outlets as finalists
for the Web Site Publication of the Year:
- CFO,
- Computerworld,
- ChannelWeb.com,
- EDN,
- Engineering News-Record,
- Ere.net,
- Macworld,
- Network World,
- The Click Z Network and
- Ward’s Auto World.
ASBPE will also recognize the winner
and finalists for the Multi-Platform Award,
in which publications blend traditional
print and digital content for an effective
package for their readers. Entrants
coordinate print with other mediums such as blogs,
podcasts, Web sites or e-newsletters.
Here are the three finalists for 2008:
- BioPharm International,
- Fortune Small
Business and
- Network World.
Award Criteria
In the Magazine of the Year competition,
judges from the professional magazine-editing
world evaluated three consecutive issues
of each entrant, studying their writing,
reporting, and editing; their usefulness
to and interactivity with readers; editorial
organization; and layout and design. The
judges also review performance in the
overall Azbee Awards competition.
For Web Site Publication of the Year,
judges looked at areas such as writing
and reporting, value and usefulness to
readers, ease of navigation and quick
access to information, site architecture,
and overall design.
The Multi-Platform awards were evaluated
based on how well print and digital media are used separately
and in conjunction with one another. Judges looked at reporting,
writing, design, usability, readability,
organization,
value to readers, interactivity, information architecture,
and effective use of technology.
Other Major Awards
In addition to the July 24 Azbee Awards
presentation, ASBPE will also name this
year’s winner of the Stephen
Barr Award for special excellence in feature
writing, and will honor its 2008 Lifetime
Achievement Award winner.
Speakers on the first day of the Conference
include Paul Conley, a well-known B2B
blogger and Abe Peck, a veteran Northwestern
University journalism professor who has
worked for newspapers and Rolling
Stone.
The Azbee Awards banquet features awards
in 55 categories of magazine, online, newsletter, and multi-platform
excellence. Azbee Awards are also given in ASBPE’s
four regions.
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