ASBPE
names Magazines of the Year,
Web Site Publication
of the Year Finalists
Twenty publications, ten online outlets compete for top awards
on Aug. 2.
ASBPE named 20 magazines
as the nation’s best business-to-business
publications as part of its 2006-7 Azbee Awards of Excellence
competition.
For the first year, ASBPE also identified 10 online outlets
as finalists for its first-ever Web Site Publication of the
Year.
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, in New York City at
the Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet on Aug. 2.
The honors are part of the Society’s annual two-day
National Editorial Conference. In the 2005-6 awards competition,
the best Web
Site was cited for “general excellence.” However,
ASBPE changed that designation to Web Site Publication of
the Year for 2006-7.
The Azbee Awards banquet, being held
at the Roosevelt Hotel, features awards in 57 categories
of magazine, online, newsletter,
and multiplatform excellence. More than 2,600 entries were
received from 500 publications representing approximately
185 companies in this 29th annual Azbee Awards competition.
Azbee Awards are also given in ASBPE’s four regions.
ASBPE named these finalists in the two
divisions:
Under 80,000 circulation
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80,000 & over circulation
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ASBPE designated these finalists for Web Site Publication
of the Year:
This year, 100 magazines and 30 Web sites entered the competitions
for Magazine of the Year and Web Site of the Year. 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 Aug. 2 New York
banquet.
Magazine of the Year and
Web Site Publication of the Year
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 2005-6 Magazine of the Year in the
80,000-and-over division
was Computerworld, while CSO was Magazine
of the Year in the under-80,000 division. Computerworld.com
captured the
General Excellence
award for Web sites last year, the forerunner
of the new Web Site Publication of the Year award.
Other Major Awards
In addition to the Aug. 2 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 2007 Lifetime
Achievement Award winner.
Speakers on the first day of the Conference include Norman
Pearlstine, senior advisor to The Carlyle Group of private
equity investors, and former editor-in-chief of Time Inc.,
and BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Steve Adler.
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