Annual Conference

Editorial Conferences

Register now for National Editorial Conference, July 15-17 in Washington, D.C.; $100 discount if registered by July 3.

New all-digital conference comes to San Francisco Nov. 5.


ASBPE has created separate print and digital editorial conferences and Azbee Awards programs for 2009. The print conference, a two-day event held during the summer, largely will explore the interrelationship between print and digital. The digital conference will focus solely on Internet-related topics and will be a one-day event. The digital conference and awards will operate on a later schedule than the print programs.

The National Editorial Conference for print publications is scheduled for July 15–17, 2009, at the Marriott Washington in Washington, D.C. The Print Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet will take place during that conference.

The Digital Conference will take place Friday, Nov. 5, in San Francisco. The event likely will feature beginner and advanced tracks. Digital Azbees will have an entry-submission deadline in late summer; members will be notified when digital submissions may begin.

Learn more about the new conference and awards programs.

July Sessions Announced

Not-to-be-missed sessions for July’s National Editorial Conference will examine:

  • Innovative responses to today's troubling times
  • How to use social media to advance your brand, generate editorial leads, and increase readership
  • Ways to sell your ideas to company executives
  • How to keep your print publication relevant in a digital age
  • Print and digital workflow strategies
  • Alternate ways to present content using visual journalism techniques
  • ASBPE Magazine of the Year winner case histories.

See the full conference agenda.


Publishing futurist Bob Sacks will keynote July’s conference.

Media Commentator to Keynote

Self-described “publishing futurist” Bob Sacks will keynote the July conference. Sacks, one of the founding fathers of High Times magazine, has been a publisher, an editor, a freelance writer, a director of manufacturing and distribution, a senior sales manager, a circulator, a chief of operations, pressman, a cameraman, a lecturer, and a developer of Web site companies. His résumé lists directorships at Bill Communications (VNU), CMP, International Paper, McCall’s, Time Inc., The New York Times Company’s magazine group, and Ziff-Davis. Today his firm, Precision Media Group, does private consulting and publishes the daily e-newsletters worldwide to more than 11,500 media industry leaders. His blog, BoSacks “Heard on the Web” — Media Intelligence, comments — sometimes caustically — on media news.

Learn more about Sacks.

Registration and Hotel Rates

National Editorial Conference and Print Azbee Awards Banquet
Wednesday–Friday, July 15–17, 2009

Full conference*
  If registration postmarked by
July 3, 2009:
If postmarked after
July 3, 2009:
Member $395 $495
Nonmember $495 $595
 
One day conference (July 16 or July 17)*
  If registration postmarked by
July 3, 2009:
If postmarked after
July 3, 2009:
Member $230 $330
Nonmember $285 $385
* 3-PLUS Discount: If three or more are attending from the same publication, a 10% discount on registration fees applies.
 
Azbee Awards Banquet only**
  If registration postmarked by
July 3, 2009:
If postmarked after
July 3, 2009:
Member $140 $165
Nonmember $165 $165
** A table for 10 people can be reserved for $1,260 That represents a 10% discount from the early-bird member rate and a 24% discount from the full price.
 
Hotel room rates
Conference attendees are eligible for a special hotel-room rate at the Marriott Washington: $149, single/double. Call 800-228-9290 and mention you're with ASBPE to get rate.
Deadline for the discounted room rate is June 24.

Get the National Editorial Conference registration brochure
(768K PDF).

Digital Conference
Friday, Nov. 5, 2009

The digital conference and awards banquet will take place Friday, November 5 in San Francisco.

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 Azbee 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.

Starting in 2009, ASBPE will hold two conferences: a two-day summer conference that focuses on print and the intersection of print and web, and a one-day fall conference devoted entirely to digital media. The digital conference will feature its own awards program.

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.

This year’s application deadline was March 2.

Read about the 2008 scholarship winners.

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