07/01/09

Award is among six won by the magazine, including a bronze award as best magazine.

CHARLOTTE (July 1, 2009) — Business North Carolina won gold prizes in the magazine category for best feature and best personality profile at this year’s Alliance of Area Business Publications Editorial Excellence Awards. The best feature story used Senior Editor Edward Martin’s experience as a heart-surgery patient to illustrate how “Greenville is stepping into the world limelight as a center for cutting edge medicine.” The best personality profile story by Contributing Editor, Tim Gray focused on an individual whose business is in death – a mortician. The prizes were two of six by the magazine. The competition, judged by journalism faculty at the University of Missouri, attracted 552 entries from 56 regional business magazines and newspapers in the U.S., Canada and Australia. BNC won silver prizes for best body of work and for best feature layout. It also won bronze prizes for best local coverage of a national business/ economic story and for best magazine. In singling out the magazine, the judges wrote, “The Business North Carolina magazine staff pays attention to business and the people important to the state’s stories. They do this with great writing, classic design and an ear to the business around them. This magazine is no doubt popular with readers because it covers diverse topics that are professionally satisfying. They do a great job with illustrations, especially info graphics. All of this adds up to a substantial, important magazine.” Business North Carolina is a Charlotte-based monthly magazine that focuses on the people, events and trends that shape business in the state. Since it began publication in 1981, it has won more than 90 national awards for its writing, reporting and design.