National Award Winners
Announced
Brand-new magazine, industry
stalwart take Magazine of the Year honors;
journalism professor gets Lifetime Achievement
Award.
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| CMO was named
the Magazine of the Year in the 80,000-and-under
circulation division. |
Restaurants & Institutions was
the winner in the large-circulation division. |
CLEVELAND — CMO, in
its first year of publication, and Restaurants & Institutions, long
an industry standard, have been presented with
the 2005 Magazine of the Year awards by the
American Society of Business Publication Editors.
In ASBPE’s 27th
annual competition among business-to-business
(b-to-b) publications, the Society also gave
its Stephen Barr Award for the year’s
best feature writing to John Gibeaut, a senior
reporter with the ABA
Journal. Publications won awards
in 40 individual editorial and design categories.
CMO, a magazine
for chief marketing officers, won the Magazine
of the Year award in the under-80,000 circulation
category, while Restaurants & Institutions was
honored among magazines with circulations
of 80,000 or more. CMO also won
six individual national prizes. In addition, Restaurants & Institutions received
a Gold for best publication redesign at the
ASBPE awards banquet, which was held at Cleveland’s
Rock + Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on
Tuesday, June 21.
ASBPE’s Magazine
of the Year competition, the most rigorous
in the b-to-b market, involves an examination
of three consecutive issues in such areas
as reporting, usefulness, layout and design,
and organization. More than 100 publications
competed.
Judges called CMO “slick
and smart,” with beautiful typography,
numerous entry points, and great cover design.
They cited Restaurants & Institutions for
its elegance, consistency, excellent writing,
and user friendliness.
Other magazines in the
top 10 among larger publications were Network
World and Remodeling (which
received special Honorable Mentions) along
with
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Lifetime Achievement Award winner
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Among under-80,000 magazines,
others in the top 10 were CIO
Insight and Residential
Architect (Honorable Mentions) and
ASBPE is a 750-member
association of editors and writers working
on business, trade, and association magazines
and their related Internet publications.
“We heartily congratulate
our Magazine of the Year winners and our
honorable mentions,” said ASBPE president
Rob Freedman, senior editor at Realtor magazine. “These
awards, along with those in all our other
categories, represent the toughest honors
to attain in our industry, not only because
of our comprehensive criteria but also because
of all the excellent publications that enter
the contest.”
This year, ASBPE had a
record 2,610 entries. Computerworld led
in total awards won with eight, while PC
World and CMO captured
seven, and CIO and Network
World six each.
John Gibeaut’s feature-writing
award, which comes with a $500 prize, recognized
two articles in the ABA Journal, one
detailing the negative impact of mandatory
minimum sentences for crimes, and the other
describing the harm from state budget cuts
on prosecutors’ offices around the
country. Judges praised Gibeaut’s success
in using characters to bring his stories
to life. The Stephen Barr Award is named
for a senior contributing editor of CFO magazine
who died in 2002 at 43 years of age.
In addition, the recipient
of this year’s Lifetime Achievement
Award, journalism professor Don Ranly of
the University of Missouri, was honored.
Ranly is credited with helping to popularize
the idea of service journalism and with helping
B2B magazines develop their mission.
Other Top Editorial, Design, and Internet
Awards
Also in the editorial
division, Digital
Connect and Small
Firm Business were named the best
new publications in their respective circulation
divisions. The best newsletter Gold went
to Technology
and Learning: School CIO. In a typical
editorial category, special section, Network
World won for a section on industry
enterprise, while American
School Board Journal won for its
retrospective, “Brown Vs. Board of
Education: the Ruling that Changed America.”
Among top ASBPE design
awards for 2005, Risk & Insurance and Restaurants & Institutions won
for publication redesign; CMO and Digital
World won for new publication design; Plate and CIO won
for overall typography; and HealthLeaders and Civil
Engineering won for feature article
design.
In the Internet division, Variety.com Headline
News took the highest honors among
e-newsletters; CMOmagazine.com,
the site for Magazine of the Year winner CMO, won
for overall Web publication and new Web publication; Oracle
Technology Network won for interactive community; and PC
World Online took the Gold for original Web news section.
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