TT Wins National Award From ASBPE
This story appears in the Aug. 8 print edition of Transport Topics.
Transport Topics won the bronze prize of the 2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.
TT won the national competition’s bronze award for on-site trade show coverage of the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show.
The announcement was made during ASBPE’s awards banquet in St. Petersburg, Florida, on July 21.
“This award reflects the quality work produced by the entire TT staff,” said Neil Abt, editorial director of Transport Topics. “It required not only the efforts of those on-site at the event, but also the staff back at our office to help bring it to life, while simultaneously still covering the rest of the trucking industry. It also could not have been accomplished without the support of American Trucking Associations and the work of photographer John P. Sommers II.”
Nearly 20 pages of conference coverage were included in TT’s March 30 and April 6, 2015, editions. The conference occurred over three days at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, taking up more than 1 million square feet. The show was attended by a record 81,000 people. There also was extensive real-time online coverage on the website, TTNews.com.
Besides Abt, others named on the award were: Seth Clevenger, technology editor; Eugene Mulero, congressional reporter; Jonathan S. Reiskin, associate news editor; and Bruce Harmon, then managing editor for magazines and features, who is now retired.
“Industrywide, Transport Topics is recognized as a leader in covering trucking and transportation,” said Chris Spear, president of American Trucking Associations, which owns the publication. “This award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors only confirms what we at ATA and across trucking have known for a long time — the team at TT are tremendous professionals and they do outstanding work covering the important issues facing our association and industry.”
The publication also received a regional award for its coverage of the same subject during June.
ASBPE calls its Awards of Excellence program one of the most competitive there is for business-to- business, trade, association and professional publications. Open to all U.S.-based publications, the awards recognize work by magazines, newsletters and digital media — websites, e-newsletters, digital magazines and blogs. More than 1,150 entries were received for more than 75 categories.
