National Editorial Conference

Kansas City hosted the 2008 ASBPE National Editorial Conference on July 24–25.

The 2008 conference featured one day of web-related topics and a day of print sessions. Highlights of the conference included:

• a session on print and web staffing.
• breakout session on producing podcasts and video.
• top award-winner case studies.
• a special award honoring a journalist who has made a difference in his or her industry.
• a session on the art of interviewing.
• an interactive session on how to transform poorly written technical articles into readable — even compelling — copy.

Blogger Paul Conley: “ No more cushy B2B jobs left”

This year’s keynote speaker was consultant and B2B media blogger Paul Conley, who has worked for Bloomberg, CNN, and Primedia. Conley has broken many important publishing stories on his blog, where he takes on issues like ethics. He also blogs extensively about other B2B topics — particularly the web and how it’s changing the game for reporters.

The gist of Conley’s talk: It’s time to give up on journalists unwilling to explore multimedia.

See a full schedule of sessions and speakers.

Read keynote speaker Paul Conley’s thoughts on web publishing.

2008 Conference Sponsors

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BNA congratulates ASBPE on its 30th Anniversary Azbee Awards of Excellence Recognized for its leadership in editorial quality, BNA is the largest independent publisher of information and analysis products for professionals in law, tax, business, and government.

About the Conference

Each summer, ASBPE holds a two-day National Editorial Conference in a different U.S. city. The conference is an opportunity for editors to meet their colleagues from across the country and to keep up with the latest on topics like doing editorial research, improving readership, and more. As part of the conference, the annual Awards of Excellence are presented at a dinner banquet. In addition, up to five U.S. and two international editors each year can attend the conference for free through our Young Leaders Scholarship. Read about the 2008 scholarship winners.

Young Leaders Scholarship

Each year, ASBPE’s Young Leaders Scholarship pays the conference and hotel room costs for five U.S. and two international applicants to attend the National Editorial Conference. (Transportation to and from the conference, any nonconference meals and other incurred costs are the responsibility of the winners or their individual publishing companies.)

Scholarship winners will also attend the ASBPE National Awards Banquet and will receive a free one-year membership to ASBPE if they are not already members.

These scholarships are open to all business editors under the age of 30, including print and Web.

Applicants must meet the following qualifications:

• Must be 30 years of age or younger.
• Must have worked at least two years as an editor of a business magazine or the magazine’s associated Internet publication.
• Candidacy must be sponsored by their publication’s Chief Editor.
• Must plan to continue in the business press as a career.
• May not be a past ASBPE Young Leaders Scholarship winner.

2008 Young Leaders Scholarship winners