2021 Azbee Awards of Excellence Regional Winners by Category

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2021 Azbee Awards of Excellence Regional Winners by Category

All Content Division

Case History Heartland

Silver “Online exclusive” Greenhouse Management magazine (GIE Media, Inc.)

Gold “Craft beer, craft plants” Garden Center magazine (GIE Media, Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Scanning Without Sedation” ACR Imaging 3.0 (American College of Radiology)

Silver “Overcoming Adversity” Imaging 3.0 Case Studies (American College of Radiology)

Gold “Bridging the Communication Gap” Imaging 3.0 Case Studies (American College of Radiology)

New England Bronze “Hybrid cloud keeps human-capital management firm nimble” Network World (IDG Communications)

Silver “How an IT department created a whole new tech company” CIO (IDG Communications)

Northeast Bronze “Case studies in forensic accounting” Accounting Today (Arizent)

Silver “Keeping the Landmark Lid on Seattle's Arena During $1-Billion Makeover Is a 22,000-Ton Balancing Act” Engineering News-Record (BNP Media Inc.)

Southeast Silver “Students help mothers’ milk bank expand its reach, save expense” ISE Magazine (Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers)

Gold “N.C. State ISE students join forces with hosiery mill to create face masks” ISE Magazine (Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers)

Upper Midwest Gold “Kitchen Storage Makeover” Foodservice Equipment & Supplies (Zoomba Group)


Company Profile Heartland

Gold “Foxtrot Unveils National Growth Strategy” CStore Decisions (WTWH Media, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Now 10 years old, Code for America hopes for government to walk alone” StateScoop (Scoop News Group)

Silver “Kilroy Realty Corporation: Commitment, Culture, People” Development magazine (NAIOP)

Gold “After 100 years and a loan, YRC readies for another long run” Transport Dive (Industry Dive)

New England Bronze “How Year Up is redefining and diversifying the IT talent pipeline” CIO (IDG Communications)

Silver “Highflying Nvidia widens its reach into enterprise data centers” Network World (IDG Communications)

Northeast Silver “Haskell Hits Its Reset Button” Engineering News-Record (BNP Media Inc.)

Gold “The Untold Story of Katina Stefanova’s Marto Capital” Institutional Investor (Euromoney)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Bulk Transporter October 2020 cover story, Odyssey's Linden Bulk Gets Smart” Bulk Transporter (Endeavor Business Media)

Silver “True to Itself” Pro Builder (SGC Horizon)

Gold “It Takes A Village” Mass Transit (Endeavor Business Media)

Data Journalism

Central Bronze “Lack of Broadband Access Linked to Childhood Poverty” Broadband Communities (Broadband Properties, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Nearly Half of Big Law Firms Made Pay, Other Cuts in Pandemic” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Mid Atlantic (continued) Silver “How federal COVID-19 relief funding flowed to the nation's biggest nonprofit and for-profit health systems” Healthcare Dive (Industry Dive)

Gold “State of the Industry” Counselor (Advertising Specialty Institute)


Data Journalism (continued) Northeast

Bronze “How The Fed Changed The U.S. Corporate Funding Landscape” RatingsDirect (S&P Global Inc.)

Southeast Bronze “Top Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Solutions” eSecurity Planet (TechnologyAdvice)

Upper Midwest

Gold “Dreams Deferred: Law school debt is delaying plans for recent grads” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Editorial

Central Bronze “Global Viewpoint” T&D World (Endeavor Business Media)

Upper Midwest Gold “Editor's Notes — Liza Berger's Blog” McKnight's Long-Term Care News (Haymarket Media)

Editor's Letter

Central Gold “Speaking of Power” POWER magazine (Access Intelligence)

Heartland Silver “No negativity” Garden Center magazine (GIE Media, Inc.)

Gold “Insights” Design World (WTWH Media, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Gold “Commentary column” Scrap (Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries)

New England Gold “Outbound” DC Velocity (AGiLE Business Media)

Northeast Bronze “Impact of COVID on the hobby industry” Hobby Merchandiser (Triangle Choice Marketing LLC)

Pacific Silver “Carrier Management Editor's Letters” Carrier Management (Wells Media Group)

Upper Midwest Bronze “rd+d Editor's Letter” restaurant development + design (Zoomba Group)

Silver “Letter from the Editor” Window Fashion VISION (AIM Communications)

Gold “From the editor” Pharma Manufacturing (Putman Media, Inc.)


Enterprise News Story Mid Atlantic

Bronze “Free Speech' Comes with a Price” Web Exclusive (Advertising Specialty Institute)

Silver “Human rights allegations in Xinjiang could jeopardize solar supply chain” S&P Global Market Intelligence (S&P Global Inc.)

Gold “Subway and Bus Jobs Expose Virus’s Vast, Deadly U.S. Disparity” Bloomberg Government (Bloomberg Industry Group)

New England Bronze “How the DevOps model will build the remote workforce” SearchITOperations (TechTarget, Inc.)

Northeast Bronze “PPP lenders nearing $10B-asset mark fear regulatory nightmare” American Banker (Arizent)

Bronze “Hospitals muzzle doctors and nurses on PPE, COVID-19 cases” MDedge (WebMD LLC)

Silver “Small Tequila and Mezcal Producers Struggle to Survive” SevenFifty Daily (SevenFifty Technologies)

Southeast Bronze “The world is watching” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

Gold “Calling out racism in trucking” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Can plaintiffs from other countries hold China legally accountable for the coronavirus pandemic in their respective courts?” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Silver “Recent equal pay lawsuits by female law professors has shined a light on academic compensation process” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Gold “Industry speaks on racial injustice” Pensions & Investments (Crain Communications)


Government Coverage Mid Atlantic

Bronze “Following FERC” Utility Dive (Industry Dive)

Silver “HHS Protect, Palantir and the rush to analyze COVID-19 data” FedScoop (Scoop News Group)

Gold “Zoom Justice” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

New England Gold “Covering the Federal Communications Commission's 5G licensing moves” Network World (IDG Communications)

Northeast Silver “Complex Challenges Facing U.S. Public Finance” RatingsDirect (S&P Global Inc.)

Gold “Pandemic, the Election and the Construction Industry:How it all Fit Together” Engineering News-Record (BNP Media Inc.)

Pacific Bronze “West Government and Insurance Coverage” Insurance Journal (Wells Media Group)

Silver “"On the Eve of the Historic RDOF Auction, We Get Down to the Details," "RDOF Winner Map: Fiber, Fixed Wireless Win Big; Winners Commit to Gigabit Speeds," "RDOF Will Put Gigabit Fixed Wireless to the Test"” Telecompetitor (Pivot Group)

Southeast Silver “Air cargo government coverage” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

Group Profile

Mid Atlantic Silver “Power 50” Counselor (Advertising Specialty Institute)

New England Bronze “Being Black in IT” CIO (IDG Communications)

Upper Midwest Silver “Two young Native American lawyers call for action on missing and murdered indigenous women” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Gold “Legal Rebels” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)


Impact/Investigative Heartland

Silver “Sober up: The Michigan hop industry won’t survive without your help” Craft Brewing Business (CBB Media Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “A Department of Defense bulletin on a 'leaking' sinkhole has baffled cybersecurity experts” CyberScoop (Scoop News Group)

Silver “Put Your Guards Up” Door and Window Market magazine (Key Media and Research Inc.)

Gold “How Oprah, Walmart Scored Tax Breaks on Films That Others Made” Bloomberg Tax (Bloomberg Industry Group)

New England Bronze “Femtech players call out Facebook for rejecting women's health ads” MobiHealthNews (HIMSS Media)

Northeast Bronze “Low standards corrode quality of popular autism therapy” Spectrum (The Simons Foundation)

Silver “How one communication tool may fail some autistic people” Spectrum (The Simons Foundation)

Gold “How aripiprazole’s promise for treating autism fell short” Spectrum (The Simons Foundation)

Pacific Bronze “Florida Supreme Court Suspends Attorney Behind Thousands of Insurer Lawsuits” Insurance Journal (Wells Media Group)

Southeast Bronze “TQL: Bully on the block?” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

Gold “Connecting the Docs” Florida Trend (Trend Magazines Inc.)

Upper Midwest Silver “Washington bar’s board mishandled employee’s sexual harassment complaint, report finds” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)


Individual Profile Heartland

Bronze “A winning playbook” Nursery Management (GIE Media, Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Silver “How Hershey CEO Michele Buck came to create a 'snacking powerhouse'” Food Dive (Industry Dive)

Gold “Arkady Bukh: Man in the Middle” CyberScoop (Scoop News Group)

Southeast Gold “First Call” Florida Trend (Trend Magazines Inc.)

Northeast Bronze “The Zimbabwean Somm Reimagining South Africa’s Wine Industry” SevenFifty Daily (SevenFifty Technologies)

Silver “In Five Hours, Daniel Kamensky Destroyed His Career. Why?” Institutional Investor (Euromoney)

Gold “Everybody Hates Ross” Institutional Investor (Euromoney)

News Analysis Heartland

Bronze “COVID-19 Preparedness for Construction Pros” Compact Equipment (Benjamin Media Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “No place to go: Oil storage filling up amid collapsing demand, excess production” S&P Global Market Intelligence (S&P Global Inc.)

Silver “The 'real consequences' of ransomware against schools” StateScoop (Scoop News Group)

Gold “A cure for hemophilia seemed closer than ever. For many patients, it's now further out of reach” BioPharma Dive (Industry Dive)

New England Bronze “US Treasury Department ban on ransomware payments puts victims in tough position” CSO (IDG Communications)

Northeast Bronze “Treating Your Get-There-Itis” Business Jet Traveler (AIN Publications)

Silver “Flying in the Age of COVID-19” Business Jet Traveler (AIN Publications)

Gold “‘The Longest Unprofitable Short I’ve Ever Seen.’” Institutional Investor (Euromoney)


News Analysis (continued) Southeast

Bronze “News analysis: Evidence mounts that Nikola Badger is roadkill” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

Gold “Stranded crew crisis is a ticking time bomb for global trade” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

Upper Midwest

Gold “What do women have to lose if the Affordable Care Act is struck down?” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Original Research Heartland

Silver “On the up & up” Greenhouse Management magazine (GIE Media, Inc.)

Gold “The Landscaper Census” Lawn & Landscape (GIE Media, Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Making the Feeling Mutual” ABA Banking Journal (American Bankers Association)

New England Silver “CIOs reshape IT priorities in wake of COVID-19” CIO (IDG Communications)

Gold “Test and review of 4 Wi-Fi 6 routers: Who's the fastest?” Network World (IDG Communications)

Pacific

Bronze “Exclusive: How P/C Insurance Pros Are Faring Working From Home During Pandemic” Insurance Journal (Wells Media Group)

Northeast Bronze “Forward to normal” strategy+business (PwC)

Silver “The $2 Trillion Question: What’s On The Horizon For Bank Credit Losses” RatingsDirect (S&P Global Inc.)

Gold “Doctors: Lonely and Burned Out in COVID-19. How Are They Coping?” Medscape (WebMD LLC)

Southeast Silver “All signs point to a prolonged trucking rally” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

Upper Midwest Silver “McKnight's 2020 Mood of the Market Survey” McKnight's Long-Term Care News (Haymarket Media)


Overall Headline Writing Mid Atlantic

Silver “Security Management” Security Management (ASIS International)

Q&A

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Attorney Ben Crump Talks Death Threats and Push for Equal Justice” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Silver “TikTok's security boss makes his case. Carefully.” CyberScoop (Scoop News Group)

New England Bronze “Zero-trust management challenges outweighed by benefits” SearchSecurity (TechTarget, Inc.)

Silver “Holy Grail still elusive in enterprise architecture strategy” SearchCIO (TechTarget, Inc.)

Northeast Bronze “Sean Penn” Business Jet Traveler (AIN Publications)

Gold “The power broker” strategy+business (PwC)

Pacific Bronze “Q&A” Scotsman Guide Commercial Edition (Scotsman Guide Inc.)

Silver “Q&A” Scotsman Guide Residential Edition (Scotsman Guide Inc.)

Southeast Bronze “What's Your Story? With U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan” ISE Magazine (Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Peer to Peer with Phil Kaplan of Gameworks” restaurant development + design (Zoomba Group)

Silver “Hard truths about the state of the healthcare industry” hfm (Healthcare Financial Management Association)

Regular Column, Contributed

Heartland Silver “Could Microsoft be en route to dumping Windows in favor of Linux? / Cybersecurity best practices: An open letter to end users” TechRepublic (Red Ventures)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “The Dotted Line” Construction Dive (Industry Dive)


Regular Column, Contributed (cont.) Northeast

Bronze “Being Black in the White World of Wine” SevenFifty Daily (SevenFifty Technologies)

Silver “Impact Factor with F. Perry Wilson” Medscape (WebMD LLC)

Pacific Bronze “Matt Asay” InfoWorld (IDG Communications)

Upper Midwest

Silver “Supreme Court Report” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Gold “LuAnn Nigara column” Window Fashion VISION (AIM Communications)

Regular Column, Staff-Written

Central Silver “Bandwidth Hawk” Broadband Communities (Broadband Properties, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Pardon the Disruption” Grocery Dive (Industry Dive)

Gold “The Zoombie Apocalypse and Running on Empty” ASH Clinical News (AMC Media Group)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Intersection” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Silver “Lois A. Bowers' Column” McKnight's Senior Living (Haymarket Media)

Technical Article Heartland

Silver “Zoom: A cheat sheet about the video conferencing solution” TechRepublic (Red Ventures)

Pacific Bronze “The Story of Cover Genius” Carrier Management (Wells Media Group)

Upper Midwest Bronze “PHA Data Can Work Smarter” Chemical Processing (Putman Media, Inc.)


Technical Article (continued) Mid Atlantic

Bronze “How one security researcher used radio signals to hop an air gap” CyberScoop (Scoop News Group)

Silver “A Core Transformational Strategy Session” ABA Banking Journal (American Bankers Association)

Gold “The Great Debate: How the Industry is Addressing Thermal Stress Breakage in the Spandrel Cavity” USGlass (Key Media and Research Inc.)

New England Bronze “A history of flash memory and its rise in the enterprise” SearchStorage.com (TechTarget, Inc.) Silver “What is virtual desktop infrastructure? VDI explained” SearchVirtualDesktop (TechTarget, Inc.)

Gold “Serverless computing: Ready or not?” Network World (IDG Communications)

Northeast Bronze “Earned wage access: A coronavirus fad or a turning point for payroll?” PaymentsSource (Arizent)

Silver “Coronavirus puts credit card swipe fees under the microscope” PaymentsSource (Arizent)

Gold “From Digital to Real: Getting the Model to the Site” Engineering News-Record (BNP Media Inc.)

Southeast Bronze “Microsegmentation: The Next Evolution in Cybersecurity” eSecurity Planet (TechnologyAdvice)

Gold “Facing the Controversy of Facial Recognition Technology” American City & County (Informa)

Trade Show/Conference Coverage

Mid Atlantic Bronze “I.CON Virtual Conference Coverage” Market Share (NAIOP)

Silver “TMC 2020” Transport Topics (American Trucking Associations)

Gold “GSX+ Daily” Security Management (ASIS International)

Upper Midwest Silver “ABA Techshow 2020” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Gold “Comprehensive Global Radiology Conference Coverage Spikes Page Views” Imaging Technology News (ITN) (Wainscot Media)


Trade Show/Conference Coverage (continued) New England

Bronze “Reporting from Gartner's IT Symposium/Xpo Americas” Network World (IDG Communications)

Silver “VMworld 2020 news and conference coverage” SearchServerVirtualization.com (TechTarget, Inc.)

Gold “Everything Enterprise Connect 2020: News, trends and insights” SearchUnifiedCommunications (TechTarget, Inc.)

Northeast Bronze “WasteExpo Together Online” Waste360 (Informa Markets)

Design

Contents Page or Pages

Upper Midwest Bronze “ABA Journal Contents Pages” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Feature Article Design, 10 or More Issues per Year

Heartland Bronze “Starting Them Young” Club + Resort Business (WTWH Media, LLC)

Silver “Bend, Don't Break” Nursery Management (GIE Media, Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Political Power” Counselor (Advertising Specialty Institute)

Gold “Political Divide” Counselor (Advertising Specialty Institute)


Pacific Bronze “A Guiding Light” Scotsman Guide Residential Edition (Scotsman Guide Inc.)

Silver “Visual Confirmation” Scotsman Guide Residential Edition (Scotsman Guide Inc.)

Gold “Tilt the Game in Your Favor” Scotsman Guide Residential Edition (Scotsman Guide Inc.)

Upper Midwest Silver “Autononomous Science” Flow Control (Endeavor Business Media)

Gold “Designing Restaurants in a Post-Pandemic World” restaurant development + design (Zoomba Group)

Feature Article Design, 9 or Fewer Issues per Year

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Going Viral Feature” Door and Window Market magazine (Key Media and Research Inc.)

Silver “Middle Market Growth - All Ashore” Middle Market Growth Magazine (Association for Corporate Growth)

Gold “Dreams Deferred” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Front Cover - Illustration Heartland

Bronze “Are you ready for the business?” Pest Management Professional (North Coast Media, LLC)

Northeast Bronze “2021 Forecast: Uncharted Territory” Engineering News-Record (BNP Media Inc.)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Shattering Expectations” Pharma Manufacturing (Putman Media, Inc.)


Front Cover - Photo Heartland

Bronze “Golf in a Pandemic” Golfdom (North Coast Media, LLC)

Gold “Carl’s Back!” Golfdom (North Coast Media, LLC)

Pacific Silver “PORAC Law Enforcement News - July 2020” PORAC Law Enforcement News (911MEDIA, a division of Trade News International, Inc.)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Directing innovation in the supply chain” hfm (HFMA)

Silver “Best of Plant Services: COVID and Everything Else” Plant Services (Putman Media, Inc.)

Gold “Crafting a positive culture for your practice” Dental Economics (Endeavor Business Media)

Front Cover - Photo Illustration

Heartland Bronze “COVID-19 is Here: Medtech May Never Be the Same” Medical Design & Outsourcing (WTWH Media, LLC)

Upper Midwest Silver “The great escape” Control Design (Putman Media, Inc.)

Gold “The right stuff” Control (Putman Media, Inc.)

Front Cover - Special Issue or Supplement

Heartland Gold “German Cockroach Supplement Cover” Pest Management Professional (North Coast Media, LLC)

Upper Midwest Silver “Business as {Un}Usual” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “House of Radiology” ACR Bulletin (American College of Radiology)

Silver “Beyond Passwords” Security Technology (ASIS International)


Front Cover - Typographic Mid Atlantic

Bronze “AGRR March/April Cover” AGRR (Key Media and Research Inc.)

Northeast Gold “The Top 400 Contractors” Engineering News-Record (BNP Media Inc.)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Industry Breaks the Mold for Discarded Plastics” Chemical Processing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Infographics

Heartland Bronze “Aerospace augmented reality and virtual reality survey” Aerospace Manufacturing and Design (GIE Media, Inc.)

Silver “Infographics” Today's Medical Developments (GIE Media, Inc.)

Gold “Infographics” Garden Center magazine (GIE Media, Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Silver “2020 DWM Infographics” Door and Window Market magazine (Key Media and Research Inc.)

Magazine/Newspaper Design Central

Bronze “PMG-the magazine” PMG (Farm Journal)

Silver “Leadership Guide & How Do You Define Leadership in the Industry?” tED magazine (National Associations of Electrical Distributors (NAED))

Heartland Silver “Seaside Retailer” Seaside Retailer (Breakwall Publishing)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Independent Agent Magazine 2020” Independent Agent Magazine (Naylor Association Solutions)

Gold “Security Management” Security Management (ASIS International)


Magazine/Newspaper Redesign

Heartland Silver “Solar Builder Revamp” Solar Builder (Benjamin Media Inc.)

Upper Midwest Silver “hfm redesign: Hard Truths January 2020” hfm (Healthcare Financial Management Association)

Online Feature Article Design

Heartland Gold “Where you see DTNA's renewed vocational focus in the Western Star 49X” Fleet Equipment (Babcox Media)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Security the Lost City November 2020 Online Article” Security Management (ASIS International)

Gold “Man in the Middle” CyberScoop (Scoop News Group)

Opening Page/Spread - Illustration

Heartland Bronze “Is Cannabis Ready for Blockchain?” Cannabis Dispensary (GIE Media, Inc.) Gold “Addressing the fast-changing challenges of cybersecurity” R&D World (WTWH Media, LLC)

Upper Midwest Bronze “U.S. Chemical Industry Advances Amid Choppy Seas” Chemical Processing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Silver “Pharma's Next Strange Trip” Pharma Manufacturing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Gold “Fleet Maintenance July 2020 feature, Technician Training in the Digital Age” Fleet Maintenance (Endeavor Business Media)

Opening Page/Spread - Photo Heartland

Bronze “Room to Roam” Compact Equipment (Benjamin Media Inc.)

Silver “Hydraulics harnesses offshore wind” Fluid Power World (WTWH Media, LLC)

Upper Midwest Silver “Moment or Movement?” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Gold “Carve the Right Path” Plant Services (Putman Media, Inc.)


Opening Page/Spread - Photo Illustration Heartland

Gold “20 Medical Device Startups You Need to Know” Medical Design & Outsourcing (WTWH Media, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Seeds of Distruption” Security Management (ASIS International)

Gold “Bridging the Gap” Inside Dental Hygiene (Aegis Dental Network)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Desperately Seeking Sanctuary” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Silver “Legal Rebels: It Takes a Team” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Gold “One Shot” Pharma Manufacturing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Opening Page/Spread - Typographic Upper Midwest

Gold “Cure or Con?” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Sara Wadford, Senior Designer

Website Design

Mid Atlantic Silver “Security Management Website” Security Management (ASIS International)

Northeast Gold “Institutional Investor Design” Institutional Investor (Euromoney)

Online

Best Social Media Campaign Heartland

Silver “GPS World COVID-19 Social Media Campaign” GPS World magazine (North Coast Media, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Silver “#PromoInTheWild” Counselor (Advertising Specialty Institute)

New England Gold “State of the CIO” CIO.com (IDG Communications)

Upper Midwest Bronze “FE&S Social Media” Foodservice Equipment & Supplies (Zoomba Group)


E-Newsletter - General Excellence Central

Bronze “tED Magazine E-Newsletters” tED magazine (The National Association of Electrical Distributors)

Silver “Lineman Life” T&D World (Endeavor Business Media)

Gold “Energizing” T&D World (Endeavor Business Media)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Coronavirus: The Global Impact” S&P Global Market Intelligence (S&P Global Inc.)

Gold “All Things Work” HR Magazine (SHRM)

Southeast Gold “Florida Trend Health Care” Florida Trend (Trend Magazines Inc.)

Northeast Bronze “Marketer Must Read newsletter: The world’s top marketers answer 10 questions on inspiration, challenges and more.” Marketer Must Read (LinkedIn News)

Silver “Essential Allocator” Institutional Investor (Euromoney)

Gold “strategy+business newsletter” strategy+business (PwC)

Pacific Silver “CRASH Network” CRASH Network (Image Output)

Gold “The Originator” Scotsman Guide Residential Edition (Scotsman Guide Inc.)

Upper Midwest Silver “McKnight's Senior Living Daily Briefing” McKnight's Senior Living (Haymarket Media)

Online Breaking News Coverage

Heartland Gold “Travelodge UK's Restructuring” Hotel News Now (CoStar Group)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Hours of Service Rule” Transport Topics (American Trucking Associations)

Silver “The firing of Chris Krebs from CISA” CyberScoop (Scoop News Group)

Northeast Silver “First impact of the coronavirus on the mortgage market” National Mortgage News (Arizent)

Gold “Bridgewater Accused Two Ex-Employees of Stealing Trade Secrets. Here’s What Happened Next.” Institutional Investor (Euromoney)


Online Breaking News Coverage (continued)

Upper Midwest Silver “Federal coronavirus nursing home commission” McKnight's Long-Term Care News (Haymarket Media)

Online Single Topic Coverage by a Team Heartland

Bronze “PMP reports on pest control as an essential service” Pest Management Professional (North Coast Media, LLC)

Silver “Diversity in the Hotel Industry” Hotel News Now (CoStar Group)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “By the numbers: Examining the cost of the pandemic on the meat industry” Food Dive (Industry Dive)

Silver “Shortages of Personal Protective Equipment” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Gold “The race for coronavirus vaccines” BioPharma Dive (Industry Dive)

New England Bronze “Cloud certification training” SearchCloudComputing (TechTarget, Inc.)

Silver “Reckoning with racism in IT” CIO (IDG Communications)

Gold “COVID-19 and the rush to work from home” Computerworld (IDG Communications)

Northeast Bronze “Coverage of Changing Clinical Treatments for COVID-19” Medscape (WebMD LLC)

Silver “The Paycheck Protection Program” American Banker (Arizent)

Gold “The SolarWinds supply chain hack” SC Media (CyberRisk Alliance)

Pacific Gold “Insurance Journal Coronavirus Crisis Coverage” Insurance Journal (Wells Media Group)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Nursing home visitation restrictions during COVID-19” McKnight's Long-Term Care News (Haymarket Media)

Silver “Public transit's fight for emergency funding” Mass Transit (Endeavor Business Media)

Gold “COVID-19 and the legal profession” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)


Photo Gallery/Slide Show Heartland

Bronze “Photos: The 73 coolest virtual backgrounds to use in Zoom meetings” TechRepublic (Red Ventures)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Trucking's Frontline Heroes” Transport Topics (American Trucking Associations)

Podcast Heartland

Bronze “R&D 100 – The Podcast” R&D World (WTWH Media, LLC)

Silver “Winged Foot GC’s Executive Chef Shares His Strategy for Serving Players During the U.S. Open” Club + Resort Chef (WTWH Media, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “ESG Insider” S&P Global Market Intelligence (S&P Global Inc.)

Silver “Art, Tragedy, and Multifamily” The AFIRE Podcast (AFIRE)

Silver “Black Lawyers Speak” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Gold “Business, Interrupted: Insurers No Help For Businesses” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

New England Bronze “Fall of a Pioneer: Unpacking Proteus Digital Health's bankruptcy filing” HIMSSCast (HIMSS Media)

Silver “Logistics Matters with DC Velocity” DC Velocity (AGiLE Business Media)

Northeast Bronze “The fallout from George Floyd's death: Physicians, how are you? How are your patients? A conversation on race for psychiatrists” MDedge (WebMD LLC)

Silver “Bankshot: A Fed digital currency looks inevitable. So do the problems.” American Banker (Arizent)

Gold “Access Denied: Representation” American Banker (Arizent)

Pacific Bronze “What Cyber Insurers Should Know About the Federal Ransomware Advisories” Insurance Journal (Wells Media Group)

Silver “Who Is Missing From College? Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 5” EdSurge (ISTE)

Southeast Bronze “15 Years in the Training Industry - Taking Stock and Looking Forward” The Business of Learning Podcast (Training Industry, Inc.)

Silver “WHAT THE TRUCK?!?” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)


Podcast Upper Midwest

Bronze “NutraCast: The health benefits of maple” NutraIngredients-USA (William Reed Business Media)

Bronze “Telehealth opportunities in oncology, and Stever Robbins shares the secret to tackling email overload” Voices in Healthcare Finance (Healthcare Financial Management Association)

Silver “Asked & Answered” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Gold “Election special: As the votes are tallied, we look at what the possible outcomes mean for healthcare” Voices in Healthcare Finance (Healthcare Financial Management Association)

Video - News Heartland

Bronze “Power Play: Solar Representation in Video Games” Solar Power World (WTWH Media, LLC)

Silver “2020 NADA Show” Automotive News (Crain Communications)

Gold “Ransomware attack: Why a small business paid the $150,000 ransom” TechRepublic (Red Ventures)

Mid Atlantic Gold “When Your Boss is Notorious: Clerking for R.B.G.” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Southeast Gold “2020 Constitutional Amendments (1-3” Florida Trend (Trend Magazines Inc.)

New England Bronze “Pursuing answers to maternal mortality, access to care and the digital divide” HIMSS TV (HIMSS Media)

Silver “Today in Tech: Apple ARM chips: WWDC's big hardware announcement” Computerworld (IDG Communications)

Gold “Today in Tech: Google and Apple release contact tracing app API” Computerworld (IDG Communications)

Upper Midwest Silver “Enterprising Medical Video Tour During the COVID Era” Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) (Wainscot Media)


Video - Tutorial Heartland

Bronze “This isn't your grandfather's truck wheel end maintenance” Fleet Equipment (Babcox Media)

Silver “Machines Heads: Let's Break Cat's Entry-Level Smartphone” Compact Equipment (Benjamin Media Inc.)

New England Gold “Pros and cons of VPN split tunneling” Network World (IDG Communications)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Section 230 in Congress’s Crosshairs: Is the Internet’s Favorite Law at Risk?” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Gold “Betting Millions on Suits: How Litigation Finance Works” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Upper Midwest Gold “Building Resilience” ProTradeCraft (SGC Horizon)

Web Feature Article

Heartland Bronze “The Internet of Wild Things: Technology and the battle against biodiversity loss and climate change” TechRepublic (Red Ventures)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Bankruptcy Racial Disparities Poised to Add to Pandemic Pain” Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Industry Group)

Silver “The Pandemic Imperils Working Mothers’ Careers” SHRM Online (SHRM)

Pacific Bronze “9 career pitfalls every software developer should avoid” InfoWorld (IDG Communications)

Silver “Black developers tell how the US tech industry could do better” InfoWorld (IDG Communications)

New England Bronze “Borderlands 3 is using its millions of gamers to help map the human gut microbiome” MobiHealthNews (HIMSS Media)

Silver “Which type of CISO are you? Company fit matters” SearchSecurity (TechTarget, Inc.)

Gold “Black IT leaders: The challenging path to the top” CIO (IDG Communications)

Upper Midwest Bronze “SPECIAL REPORT: Bee friendly? Pollinating California's almond crop” FoodNavigator-USA (William Reed Business Media)

Silver “Don't Fear Flood Data: Here's How it Helps Clients” REALTOR® Magazine (National Association of REALTORS®)


Web Feature Article (continued) Northeast

Bronze “The New Normal: When work-from-home means the boss is watching” Computerworld (IDG Communications)

Silver “A conflicted question: What is fiduciary advice?” Financial Planning (Arizent)

Gold “Breaking through a ‘cloud of silence’: One physician’s suicide offers lessons for prevention” MDedge (WebMD LLC)

Web Feature Series Central

Bronze “Where energy and cartels collide” Argus Mexico Fuel Markets Report (Argus Media)

Heartland Bronze “Setting the Standards” Hotel News Now (CoStar Group)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Returning to the Office” Web Exclusive (Advertising Specialty Institute)

Silver “Mapping the Rise of Ghost Kitchens” Restaurant Dive (Industry Dive)

Gold “Special report: How racism impacts construction” Construction Dive (Industry Dive)

Southeast Bronze “America's most dangerous roads for truckers” FreightWaves (FreightWaves)

New England Bronze “Ransomware: Who is behind it and how to minimize the risk” CSO (IDG Communications)

Silver “CIOs confront COVID-19’s evolving impact on business and IT” CIO (IDG Communications)

Gold “Burnout in the Age of COVID-19” Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)

Northeast Bronze “The Science of Wine” SevenFifty Daily (SevenFifty Technologies)

Silver “Coverage of PPE Shortages” Medscape (WebMD LLC)

Gold “How banks are addressing racial and income inequality” American Banker (Arizent)

Upper Midwest Gold “Law and Aging” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)


Web How-To Article Heartland

Silver “How to turn on virtual backgrounds in Zoom” TechRepublic (Red Ventures)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “One professor's obsessive quest to replicate the university classroom experience from his home studio” EdScoop (Scoop News Group)

Silver “Go Hack Yourself” ABA Banking Journal (American Bankers Association)

Gold “Dealing with Social Isolation” SHRM Online (SHRM)

New England Bronze “11 best practices for Microsoft Teams video meetings” Computerworld (IDG Communications)

Silver “How to optimize Windows event logging to better investigate attacks” CSO (IDG Communications) Susan Bradley, Writer and Michael Nadeau,

Editor

Gold “Guide to building and executing an MSP business model” SearchITchannel (TechTarget, Inc.)

Pacific Bronze “9 ways to build privacy into your cloud applications” InfoWorld (IDG Communications)

Web Microsite/Special Section (Non-Trade Show/Conference)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Special Report: Coronavirus Response” StateScoop and EdScoop (Scoop News Group)

Silver “How much has executive diversity changed in retail?” Retail Dive (Industry Dive) Gold “Six months in: The COVID-19 crisis” Healthcare Dive (Industry Dive)

New England Bronze “Ultimate guide to artificial intelligence in the enterprise” SearchEnterpriseAI (TechTarget, Inc.)

Silver “Guide to building an effective employee experience strategy” SearchHRSoftware.com (TechTarget, Inc.)

Northeast Bronze “The Job Center” SevenFifty Daily (SevenFifty Technologies)

Silver “Women in IT Security” SC Media (CyberRisk Alliance)


Web Microsite/Special Section (Non-Trade Show/Conference) (continued) Upper Midwest

Bronze “Best Places to Work in Money Management” Pensions & Investments (Crain Communications)

Silver “Legal Rebels microsite” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Web News Section

Mid Atlantic Gold “Exclusive Data” EdWeek Market Brief (Editorial Projects in Education)

New England Bronze “IT security news — laws, regulations, vulnerabilities & attacks” CSO (IDG Communications)

Upper Midwest Bronze “McKnightsSeniorLiving.com News Section” McKnight's Senior Living (Haymarket Media)

Silver “mcknights.com” McKnight's Long-Term Care News (Haymarket Media)

Webinar

Mid Atlantic Silver “How is Covid-19 Reshaping School District Purchasing Priorities?” EdWeek Market Brief (Editorial Projects in Education)

New England Silver “2020 State of the CIO: IT leaders unpack the survey results” CIO.com (IDG Communications)

Pacific Bronze “How the Insurance Industry Can Be an Active Ally to the Black Community” Insurance Journal (Wells Media Group)

Print

Feature Article, 10 or More Issues per Year Heartland

Gold “C-Stores Navigate Uncertain Economic Landscape” CStore Decisions (WTWH Media, LLC)

Southeast Gold “To Build a Brownstone” Florida Trend (Trend Magazines Inc.)


Feature Article, 10 or More Issues per Year (continued) Mid Atlantic

Bronze “Smart bridges, Evolved” Civil Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers)

Silver “An Unfair Advantage: Confronting Organized Intellectual Property Theft” Security Management (ASIS International)

Gold “Space Place” Civil Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Bring it home” Pharma Manufacturing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Silver “One shot” Pharma Manufacturing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Gold “Healthcare organizations prepare for sicker patients in 2021 due to deferred care” hfm (HFMA)

Feature Article, 9 or Fewer Issues per Year

Mid Atlantic Silver “Companies Try a New Approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Honest Conversations” HR Magazine (SHRM)

Northeast Bronze “Ireland's Wild West” Business Jet Traveler (AIN Publications)

Upper Midwest Bronze “How can aging judges know when it's time to hang up the robe?” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Silver “Rough Seas: Suing the cruise industry is rarely smooth sailing” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Feature Series

Heartland Bronze “Pandemic series” Pest Management Professional (North Coast Media, LLC)

Northeast Silver “Maternal Mortality: A National Crisis” Ob.Gyn.News/MDedge (WebMD LLC)

Southeast Silver “Acme Corporation' Suffers a Breach” InfoSecurity Professional ((ISC)2)


Feature Series (continued) Mid Atlantic

Bronze “Mortgage Forbearance” ABA Bank Compliance (American Bankers Association)

Silver “COVID-19's Impact on Commercial Real Estate” Development magazine (NAIOP)

Gold “Wheels of Justice” Transport Topics (American Trucking Associations)

How-To Article

Central Silver “Disinfection and Sterilization” New Perspectives (Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors)

Mid Atlantic Gold “How Should HR Handle Political Discussions at Work” HR Magazine (SHRM)

Northeast Silver “How companies can transform information into insight” strategy+business (PwC)

Gold “Govern Your Bots!” Strategic Finance (IMA (Institute of Management Accountants))

Heartland Silver “Battery Service Best Practices” MOTOR Magazine (HEARST PUBLISHING, INC.)

Upper Midwest Bronze “"Select the Right Valves for Adsorption Processes"” Chemical Processing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Silver “Becoming Camera Ready” REALTOR® Magazine (National Association of REALTORS®)

Gold “Fleet Maintenance August 2020 feature, How to manage unanticipated roadside events” Fleet Maintenance (Endeavor Business Media)

News Section

Mid Atlantic Silver “Civil Engineering News” Civil Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers)

Gold “Civil Engineering News” Civil Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers)

Upper Midwest Silver “McKnight's Long-Term Care News” McKnight's Long-Term Care News (Haymarket Media)

Gold “McKnight's Senior Living Print News Section” McKnight's Senior Living (Haymarket Media)


Regular Department Heartland

Bronze “Trouble Shooter” MOTOR Magazine (HEARST PUBLISHING, INC.)

Silver “F&I Department” Automotive News (Crain Communications)

Mid Atlantic Bronze “Cybersecurity” Security Management (ASIS International)

Silver “Fast Forward” Civil Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers)

Gold “History Lesson” Civil Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers)

Pacific Bronze “BackSpace” Scotsman Guide Residential Edition (Scotsman Guide Inc.)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Inter Alia” ABA Journal (American Bar Association)

Silver “Facility Design Project of the Month” Foodservice Equipment & Supplies (Zoomba Group)

Gold “Global Dose” Pharma Manufacturing (Putman Media, Inc.)

Single Topic Coverage by a Team

Heartland Bronze “Top 100 Independent Garden Centers” Garden Center magazine (GIE Media, Inc.)

Gold “From Vehicles to Ventilators” Automotive News (Crain Communications)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Pandemic Response: Security Risks and Strategies” Security Management (ASIS International)

Gold “Special Issue: COVID-19” Development magazine (NAIOP)

Northeast Bronze “COVID-19 and Construction” Engineering News-Record (BNP Media Inc.)

Pacific Bronze “Talent Magnets: Carriers That Employees Love to Work For” Carrier Management (Wells Media Group)

Upper Midwest Silver “Diversity and Inclusion in Money Management” Pensions & Investments (Crain Communications)


Special Section Heartland

Bronze “2020 Global R&D Funding Forecast” R&D World (WTWH Media, LLC)

Silver “State of the Industry 2020” Nursery Management (GIE Media, Inc.)

Gold “Spring Survival Guide” Garden Center magazine (GIE Media, Inc.)

Mid Atlantic Silver “Anatomy Of Partners Federal Credit Union” Credit Union Strategy & Performance (Callahan & Associates)

Gold “Health Equity: Everyone's Responsibility” ACR Bulletin (American College of Radiology)

New England Bronze “Heroes of the Supply Chain” DC Velocity (AGiLE Business Media)

Upper Midwest Bronze “Housing Giants” Pro Builder (SGC Horizon)

Silver “McKnight's 2020 Dealmakers Handbook” McKnight's Long-Term Care News (Haymarket Media)

Gold “Where Do You Go From Here?” REALTOR® Magazine (National Association of REALTORS®)

Special Supplement

Heartland Silver “2021 State of the Industry Report” Pest Management Professional (North Coast Media, LLC)

Gold “Club + Resort Chef Releases First Annual Club Chef Cookbook” Club + Resort Chef (WTWH Media, LLC)

Mid Atlantic Gold “2020 Top 100 For-Hire Carriers” Transport Topics (American Trucking Associations)

New England

Silver “State of Logistics 2020” CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly (Supply Chain Media)

Northeast Gold “Gastroenterology Data Trends 2020” GI & Hepatology News (WebMD LLC)

2021 Azbee Awards of Excellence Regional Winners by Category

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