| ENR
Wins Two Awards From Business Editors
The Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, is a great place
to celebrate. ENR was among the award winners honored there
at the June 21 gala of the American Society of Business Publication
Editors.
It was fun to see the jacket John
Lennon wore on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band. And it was a delight to revisit the site where
I reported a cover story about the construction of the museum
(ENR 10/31/94 p. 34). ENR editors love the drama of construction
and see lots of it, but we don’t always get to experience
the project fully realized.
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| Gold,
silver. ENR won in feature series and special editorial
sections. |
I proudly carried home two excellence
awards in the editorial competition, which drew 2,610 entries
this year. ENR’s team led by construction economics editor
Timothy J. Grogan won a gold award for feature series for
2004 coverage of the steel price crisis. A team led by business
editor Richard Korman won a silver award in the special section
category for coverage of construction rescues with the story,
"Minutes to Live" (ENR 11/22/04 p. 23).
But most inspiring was the message
of Don Ranly, ASBPE’s 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award
winner. Ranly, a professor emeritus of the University of Missouri
School of Journalism, helped pioneer the concept of service
journalism–a concept ENR takes very seriously. Service
journalism, Ranly says, is journalism that is useful, usable
and used. He also emphasizes good editing, integrity and credibility,
which is lost without editorial independence.
Ranly further explained with the
words of George Washington, who called magazines "easy
vehicles of knowledge, more happily calculated than any other,
to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry and meliorate
the morals of an enlightened and free people." Ranly
added, "Sounds to me a little like business-to-business
journalism...to stimulate an industry, to serve an industry,
to help an industry succeed. How simple. A good B2B book says
to its industry, we’re here to help you."
That was the goal of ENR’s
award-winning stories–to present journalism that makes
a difference in construction.
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