The Future is Now: B2B Re-Imagined for the 21st Century

The 2013 ASBPE National Conference will be held July 26 in Chicago. Register now or download the conference brochure (PDF).

This year, attendees can look forward to a variety of outstanding programs and speakers, including a keynote by Paul Conley on B2B Re-Imagined for the 21st Century. Conley has three decades of experience in business and financial journalism, including stints at CNN, Primedia Business, Bloomberg and Knight-Ridder Financial, and is the creator of The Conley Index. Other presentation topics will include:

• Managing Contributors — While Staying Sane, featuring panelists Chrystal Bedell (Bedell Communications), Jan Stafford (TechTarget) and Mark Fontecchio (TechTarget)
• Inside the Numbers: Making Sense of Complex Systems, led by Steve Ross (Broadband Communities)
• Producing Video that People Will Actually Watch, led by Tom Worobec (Automotive News TV)
• Getting Engaged: When to Say ‘I Do,’ and ‘I Don’t’ to Social Media, featuring Jessica Zemler and Brendan Howard (both of Advanstar Communications)

In addition, the conference program will include roundtable discussions on raising brand awareness and copyright law in the digital age, as well as Magazine-of-the-Year and Website-of-the-Year Case Studies by the winners (to be announced).

Click here to register now! Or download the conference brochure here as a PDF.

The 2013 ASBPE National Editorial Conference will be followed on the evening of Friday, July 26, by the 2013 Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet, to take place at the Grotto in Oak Brook, Ill. (a suburb of Chicago). The Azbee Awards is one of the most competitive contests for B2B, trade, association and professional publications. It recognizes outstanding work by magazines, newsletters and digital media: websites, e-newsletters, digital magazines and blogs. The competition is open to all U.S.-based publications. Specialty award categories of competition include Magazine of the Year, Web site of the Year and Multi-Platform Presentation of the Year. During the banquet, recipients of the 2013 Young Leaders Scholarship, for editors age 30 and younger, also will be announced. In addition, ASBPE will present its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award to Julia Homer, former founding editor of CFO magazine, who will speak at the event.

Another highlight of the ASBPE awards program is the Stephen Barr Award, which is given to the writer of the top-judged feature story from the competition. This year will be the tenth annual presentation of the Stephen Barr Award, endowed by the family of Stephen Barr — a gifted business-to-business reporter who died in 2002, at the age of 43. Awarded through the not-for-profit ASBPE Foundation, the award is presented at the end of the award ceremony.

For more information or to register for the 2013 ASBPE National Editorial Conference and/or Azbee Awards of Excellence, please visit www.asbpe.org. Download the conference brochure here as a PDF! Or Click here to register now!

Special thanks to PixelMags for sponsoring the 2013 conference!

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.

Phoenix Media, an award-winning media company, is looking for a top-notch editor to help write and edit content for its growing lineup of web and magazine properties. We are looking for a talented professional with experience in writing, blogging, editing and tweeting. Being bilingual in English and Spanish is a plus.

The ideal candidate:

• Has at least three to five years of professional media experience;
• Has at least a bachelor’s degree in communications or a related topic;
• Is good at meeting deadlines and multitasking, and can work in a fast-paced environment;
• Is comfortable interviewing top-level business executives;
• Is a fast learner who can write and edit content for a variety of market segments, including foodservice, manufacturing and construction;
• Is well-versed in Word, Quark and Excel and is social media-proficient; and
• Has a positive, hard-working attitude.

This full-time editor will be based in the Chicago Loop, with the opportunity to telecommute part-time. The editor will work on several of our media properties, including Retail Merchandiser (retail-merchandiser.com) and Food & Drink (fooddrink-magazine.com). This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to play an important role in a growing business.

For consideration, please submit resume, published writing samples and salary requirements to recruiting@phoenixmediacorp.com. Please put Editor – Chicago in the subject line of your email.

Follow the money. In the wake of high-profile corporate scandals, such as Peregrine Financial, Solyndra, and myriad banks, and the resulting Congressional actions to address them, getting to the bottom of a balance sheet and other company reports is an indispensable part of doing your job as a business publication editor.

Stock analysts do it…so can you! Join ASBPE for this first of three webcasts on financial reporting and extend your reportorial savvy into the world of company financial statements. Learn about financial tools that top-tier investigative journalists use to enhance the breadth and depth of their business reporting, uncover hidden problems in company performance, estimate market share — and beat the competition in disclosing the next corporate scandal.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to find out crucial corporate information when on deadline, and methods to use when you have more time to dedicate to story development.
• How to obtain and interpret corporate reports, including the 10K and 10Q, 8K and 14K, cash flow and income statements, balance sheet, and annual report to shareholders.
• How to convey to your audience the significance of the numbers as you report on financial issues.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Time: 3:00-4:30 pm EDT (2:00-3:30 pm CDT)

Location: Your computer.

Cost: Free for members, $35 for non-members

Registration: After registering here for the webcast, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webcast.

About the presenter:

Steve Ross is a long-time technology writer and former Columbia University journalism professor. He is also the Corporate Editor of Broadband Properties Magazine. The international pub

lication (www. bbpmag.com) is the leading source of information on digital and broadband technologies for ultra-connected communities. Some of his biggest models are on the site at www.FTTHAnalyzer.com.

Ross has domestic and international expertise in architecture, land-use planning, business, and education. He has built editorial models for Baseline, Engineering News-Record and others, and has modeled publishers’ business processes for Time Warner, Consumers Union and others.

Ross is well known in journalism circles for his CD-ROM-based instructional software and for his expertise in distance learning and computer-assisted reporting, also known as “analytic journalism”. He also appears regularly on History Channel and Weather Channel shows, most recently on Deadliest Space Weather.

He holds a BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Journalism from Columbia. He has authored or edited 19 books. He has edited magazines and newsletters for McGraw-Hill, MBA Communications, Boardroom Publishing and others. He’s won numerous technical, professional, and journalistic awards. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and has taught statistics in academic and industrial settings.

Save the evening of Thursday, July 18^th for the presentation of ASBPE’s 2013 Northeastern Region Awards of Excellence. We’ll see the winning entries, give out the awards, and hear the story behind the story about two award-winning articles. Register now!

Meeting Details

When: Thursday, July 18^th, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Where: Trattoria Dopo Teatro, 125 West 44th Street (off 6th Avenue), Manhattan.

How to attend: To reserve your place, send payment (credit card or check payable to ASBPE) by July 11. You can pay online here.

• If paid by July 11: $59.00 for ASBPE members; $69.00 for nonmembers. Groups of 5 or more receive a $5 discount per person.
• If paid after July 11: $69.00 for ASBPE members and journalism students (w/ current ID); $79.00 for nonmembers.

About ASBPE

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.

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the Kansas City Chapter of ASBPE will host a half-day boot camp. The event will be held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, followed by an optional lunch.

The 2013 Boot Camp will kick off with a keynote presentation, Transitioning from Print to Digital, by Carlos Lugo, senior director of production for Penton Media. Lugo, who has more than 30 years of production operations experience, has helped transition organizations from print to digital.  At Penton Media, he is responsible for print production and operation groups as well as for digital edition production operations for all of Penton. He will address:

• The key benefits of offering digital editions
• Generating revenue with digital editions
• Designing digital editions that work
• Case studies of Penton digital editions

In addition, James Hopper, chair of Web and Digital Communications at Johnson County Community College, will present Digital Storytelling. Hopper, a graduate of KU with a BA and MS in Journalism and Mass Communication, has taught at JCCC for more than 15 years. He will address:

• How media, technology and access to the digital world have emerged and transformed our professional and personal lives.
• What opportunities the digital world provides to engage users and connect with them.
• How to marry technology and storytelling through digital storytelling.

Registration is $75 for members and $100 for non-members. Stay tuned for further details on the program and speakers. Registration will open in July. If you have any questions, please contact KC Chapter President Danica Tormohlen at 816-803-8103 or danicat@tradeshowexecutive.com.

HotelNewsNow.com, an award-winning online platform covering the gobal hotel industry, is seeking an full-time Copy Editor. The Copy Editor is responsible for driving a consistent style for HotelNewsNow.com and its family of websites and newsletters; polishing content to make it readable, enticing and befitting a Web-based platform; fact-checking articles; punching holes in stores as needed; ensuring punchy, active headlines are used on all content; and maintaining the site’s ever-evolving network of columnists.

The full-time position will be based in HotelNewsNow.com’s offices in downtown Rocky River, Ohio. Salary range of $30,000 to $35,000 based on experience.

Send cover letter and resume to patrick@hotelnewsnow.com. No phone calls, please.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• College degree
• 3-5 years experience in journalism, communications or a related field
• At least 2 years copy editing experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• College degree from a four-year journalism or communications program
• Experience developing and maintaining style books
• Experience producing bylined news articles
• Copy editing experience in B2B
• Copy editing experience for daily news cycle
• Copy editing experience for online publications

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:

• Knowledge and familiarity with AP Style
• Experience editing articles for grammar, spelling and style
• Experience editing articles to identify holes in reporting, inconsistencies, etc.
• Experience crafting attention-grabbing headlines and summaries

Now that the entry processing and judging are complete, we are pleased to announce that the finalists for the 2013 Azbee Awards have been selected!

Download the PDF to view the list of National and Regional finalists, including finalists for the Magazine of the Year and Website of the Year awards.

National winners will be announced at the National Awards Banquet in July in Chicago following the National Conference. Regional winners will be announced at the Awards Banquets for each region: New York, July 18; Boston, July 22; Kansas City, July 24; and Chicago, July 25.

Join ASBPE Boston at the Crowne Plaza for the Northeast Region Azbee Awards.

Join ASBPE Boston/New England for an awards banquet and networking evening at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Newton Corner, Mass.

During the evening we’ll also hear from speaker Peter Howe, business reporter at New England Cable News (NECN), about his transition from Boston Globe print reporter to NECN video journalist. He’ll share the lessons he learned along the way.

Register now.  

Peter Howe of NECN will be the featured speaker at the Boston Azbee Awards banquet.

Recently integrally involved with coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, Howe joined NECN in 2008. He came to NECN after two decades with the Boston Globe, where he was editor or co-editor of The Globe 100 for four years and covered the Massachusetts State House, Big Dig, Boston Harbor cleanup, Boston City Hall, and business beats including airlines, energy, telecommunications, and technology. His work has won awards from groups including The Associated Press managing editors and Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Howe, of Newton, Mass., is married to the novelist Holly LeCraw Howe (The Swimming Pool) and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1986.

The ASBPE Boston/New England chapter welcomes members and nonmembers. In particular, we are inviting participation by Media Chowder – a local media networking group – as well as members of the Society of Professional Journalists.

ABOUT THE AWARDS

ASBPE’s Azbee Awards of Excellence program is one of the most competitive there is for business-to-business, trade, association, and professional publications. The awards recognize outstanding work by magazines, newsletters, and digital media — Web sites, e-newsletters, digital magazines, and blogs. The competition is open to all U.S.-based publications.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Monday, July 22, 2013

Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.

Location:
Crown Plaza Hotel Newton-Boston
320 Washington St. (Newton Corner — exit 17 off the Pike)
Newton, MA 02458

Menu

Tossed Garden Salad
Penne with Marinara Sauce
Chicken Marsala
Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes
Fresh Seasonal Vegetables
Fresh Baked Rolls
Coffee Station with Boston Cream Pie for Dessert

Cost

Members:  $55 per person
Non-Members: $70 per person

Register by July 1 and save $5 per person.
Register now.  (You may pay in advance or at the door.)

Questions? Contact Alan Earls – alan.r.earls@gmail.com, or 508-528-6930.

This year, we are forgoing our traditional sit-and-be-served dinner and hosting an ASBPE Midwest-South Regional Azbee Awards evening to remember! The event will include a hearty selection of hot and cold Italian appetizers, pasta bar, carving station and decadent desserts … not to mention recognition of the region’s print, digital and design award winners as selected by ASBPE judges. Join us!

Click here to register now!

What: ASBPE Midwest-South 2013 Azbee Awards

When: Thursday, July 25
6 p.m.—Cocktails (Registration includes one complimentary beverage, then cash bar)
7-9 p.m.—Dinner and awards presentation

Where:  Grotto Italian Steakhouse, Oak Brook, Ill. (a suburb of Chicago)

Cost: $45 for members; $55 for nonmembers (If you are not certain of your member status, please email jsvazas@integrated-solutions.com. If someone entered the Azbees on your behalf, you still must be a member to qualify for the member price.)

Click here to register now!

For more information, email debbiecassell@yahoo.com.

Note that national award winners will be recognized at the Azbee Awards of Excellence on Friday, July 26, following the ASBPE 2013 National Editorial Conference. Both events will be held at the Grotto. Click here to register for the conference and national awards banquet.

All awards and conference attendees are privy to discounted hotel rates at Hyatt Place Chicago in Lombard. To take advantage of this opportunity, visit www.hyattplacelombard.com and click on Offer and Gift Certificate; in the Corporate/Group # field, enter group code G-ASBPE.

The position requires some travel (4-5 times a year) and the ability to maintain a flexible work schedule, especially when approaching production deadlines.

Responsibilities:

• Write feature articles, departments and columns for the print magazine.
• Write and post daily news items and regular blog posts for the Web site.
• Solicit and edit contributed feature articles, news items and blog posts.
• Assist in managing the magazine production process, including proofreading and working with the editor in chief and art director on the issue’s appearance and design.
• Report from, and participate in, industry conferences and trade shows.
• Cover the occupational safety and health beat and cultivate industry contacts and sources.
• Manage the magazine’s social media platform, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• Review applications for annual awards programs.
• Manage website comments and work to build audience engagement and discussion.
• Cross-promote content to related articles, site sections and social media.
• Assist in creating event and award program agendas.
• Work closely with the editorial, marketing and e-media teams to guide the magazine’s brand and focus.

Requirements:

• B.A. (English or Journalism preferred.)
• 3-5 years of professional experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office required.
• Proficiency with Photoshop and InDesign strongly preferred.
• An understanding of web usability, writing for the web and SEO strongly preferred.
• Experience posting content and working with content management systems strongly preferred.
• The ability to work quickly at a high level and consistently meet tight deadlines.
• Experience with social media, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• Interest in or knowledge of occupational heath and safety, workplace wellness, safety legislation, workers’ rights or related issues a plus.

For more information, contact Sandy Smith, Editor in Chief, EHS Today, sandy.smith@penton.com.