NEW YORK, July 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ASBPE honored
Restaurant Business and FSR as Magazines of the Year
for 2015 and named Hotel News Now as its Website of the Year. The
organization of business-to-business editors chose
Computerworld as winner of its award for Best Cross-Platform
Package of the Year.
ASBPE's Stephen Barr Award, its
top individual feature writing prize, went to Ann Marsh of Financial Planning magazine
for her May 2014 article "Could
Financial Planning Help Stem the Rate of Military Suicides?" The
story detailed a surprisingly high percentage of military and
veteran suicides in which financial concerns, rather than combat
trauma, were the main factor. Her description of how the Defense
Department didn't allow its financial planners to provide actual
assistance, but only to give generic advice, was a factor in
Congress passing legislation to move toward correcting the
situation.
The ASBPE honors, in Digital and Print categories covering both
editorial and graphic design, were presented as part of its
thirty-seventh annual Azbee Awards of Excellence at its National
Conference, held July 24 at the
New York University's Kimmel Center for
University Life. ASBPE, which represents 600 journalists for B2B,
or "trade publications," was originally known as the American
Society of Business Publication Editors.
The single biggest winner of Gold awards in individual Print,
Digital and Graphic categories was Computerworld, which earned
eight. Realtor, Engineering News-Record,
InvestmentNews and Exhibitor earned three each.
This year 1,272 entries were submitted in 82 categories,
slightly up from last year. A full list of winners of 2015 Azbee
Awards is here.
Also acknowledged at the ceremony was Amanda Panacci, a journalism masters student at
Toronto's Ryerson University, who received the Student
Writing Award offered by the ASBPE Foundation and the Association
of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. ASBPE also named
three Young Leader Scholars: Lauren
Alexander, a freelancer for Meister Media Worldwide;
Katie James, an assistant content
specialist for UBM Life Sciences; and Jeff
Zagoudis, an associate editor at Scranton Gillette
Communications.
Restaurant Business was honored as Magazine of the Year
among publications of more than $3
million revenue. Honorable mentions in the category went to
The American Lawyer and Governing, with Architect,
Automotive News, CIO, DTN/The Progressive Farmer, Exhibitor, Human
Resource Executive and InvestmentNews filling out the
Top Ten magazines. In the category for publications with revenue
less than $3 million,
honorable-mention recipients were ABA Journal and
Emergency Management, and Affordable Housing Finance,
Connect, Design:retail, The Meeting Professional, Oregon
Business, Stitches and Wearables rounded out the Top
Ten.
In the Website of the Year competition, Engineering
News-Record's ENR.com site and NetworkWorld's
networkworld.com site won honorable mentions. Filling out the rest
of the Top Ten were americanbanker.com, autonews.com,
computerworld.com, farmindustrynews.com, spectrum.ieee.org,
SCMagazine.com, and WardsAuto.com.
Among the awards in individual Print categories, both Gold and
Silver awards for Feature Series went to Hospitals & Health
Networks, while CSP and Civil Engineering won for
General-Interest Feature and Long Term Living won for Case
History and CIO and strategy + business won for
Company Profile. Wearables won for How-To Article, and
Engineering News-Record and McKnights's Long-Term Care
News won for Individual Profile in the large publication and
smaller publication category, respectively. Among others
winning Golds were Corporate Counsel for News Analysis;
Farnborough Airshow News for On-Site Trade Show Coverage;
Stitches and Computerworld for Original Research;
Engineering News-Record for Technical Article; and
dvm360 for Visual Storytelling.
In Digital categories, Computerworld.com and CIO.com were big
winners, while American Banker won for Enterprise News
Story. Realtor won for Video-Tutorial and Video-News,
while TechRepublic won for Impact/Investigative. Best New or
Relaunched Website honors went to Builder. Among the new
media categories, Best App went to Military Officer Select, Best
Photo Gallery went to SearchCIO, and both Best Video-Tutorial and
Best Video-New went to Realtor. CIO.com and Solar Power
World both were recognized for their social media
efforts.
Founded in 1964 as the American Society of Business Press
Editors, ASBPE is the professional association for full-time and
freelance editors, writers, art directors, and designers employed
in the business, trade, and specialty press. The official name was
changed to the American Society of Business Publication Editors in
1997, and to ASBPE in 2012. ASBPE has chapters in cities
nationwide, including Chicago,
Boston, New York, Kansas
City, Cleveland and
Washington, D.C.
Its Stephen Barr Award, sponsored
by the nonprofit ASBPE Foundation, is named for one of ASBPE's more
honored journalists, who died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 43.
It recognizes individual writing across the Azbee's feature
categories.
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