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NEAL AWARDS ‘CSO’s’ ‘Red Gold Rush’ wins Grand Neal BY MATTHEW SCHWARTZ Sarah Scalet, managing editor of CSO, recalls that reporter Scott Berinato was doing some research last year when he ran across a series of articles describing a growing trend in metal theft and decided to investigate further. “He talked with a lot of experts and put together the pieces no one had put together before,” Scalet said. “It really is a fascinating topic, with good guys and bad guys.” The resulting article, “Red Gold Rush,” published in the February 2007 issue of CSO, won the Grand Neal Award last month at American Business Media’s 54th annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards ceremony in New York. CSO is published by CXO Media, a subsidiary of IDG Communications. The article connected the dots between the construction boom in China, rising prices worldwide for metals and the tremendous risks thieves will take to steal and sell them to scrap dealers. For example, crystal methamphetamine addicts are pulling down municipal light poles to get at the copper wire so they can sell it to feed their drug habits, according to the article. For CSOs, the increase in metal theft “is the most significant GRAND NEAL WINNER: Rance Crain (l.), president of Crain Communications Inc., and ABM President-CEO Gordon Hughes II (r.), flank 2008 Grand Neal Award winners Sarah Scalet and Derek Slater of CSO. physical security concern today.” The three runners-up for the Grand Neal were: Affordable Housing Finance’s “The Trouble With HUD and How to Fix It,” published by Hanley Wood; ArchRecord.com, the Web site of Architectural Record, published by McGraw-Hill Cos.; and Heavy Duty Trucking’s “Solving the Driver Crisis,” published by Newport Communications Group. 2008 Jesse H. Neal Award winners Grand Neal Winner “Red Gold Rush,” CSO (IDG/CXO Media) Grand Neal runners-up ■ Affordable Housing Finance, “The Trouble With HUD and How to Fix It” (Hanley Wood) ■ ArchRecord.com, Architectural Record (McGraw-Hill Cos.) ■ Heavy Duty Trucking, “Solving the Driver Crisis” (Newport Communications Group) Best single article* ■ CSO, “Red Gold Rush” (IDG/CXO Media) ■ Corporate Counsel, “Someone to Watch Over You” (ALM) ■ The American Lawyer, “Miami Heat” (ALM) Best subject-related series of articles ■ Affordable Housing Finance, “The Trouble With HUD and How to Fix It” (Hanley Wood) ■ DVM Newsmagazine, State board series (Advanstar Communications) ■ PC World, Windows Vista coverage (IDG/PC World Communications) Best staff-written editorials or opinion column ■ Geriatrics, editorials (Advanstar Communications) ■ Commercial Carrier Journal, editorials (Randall-Reilly Publishing) ■ PC World, “Techlog” (IDG/ PC World Communications) Best department ■ Drovers, “Profit Tips” (Vance Publishing Corp.) ■ Government Computer News, “GCN Lab Reviews” (1105 Media) ■ The American Lawyer, “Bar Talk” (ALM) Best how-to article or subjectrelated series of how-to articles ■ EMS, “Coping With Violent People” (Cygnus Business Media) ■ Counselor, “2007 State of the Industry” (Advertising Specialty Institute) ■ The Progressive Farmer, “Building Your Place” (DTN) Best news coverage ■ Financial Week, “Corporate Credit Crunch News Coverage” (Crain Communications Inc.) ■ DVM Newsmagazine, “Pet-food Recall” (Advanstar Communications) ■ Engineering News-Record, “Broken Promises: The Collapse of the I-35W Bridge” (McGraw-Hill Cos.) Best single theme or special issue of a magazine or newspaper/news tabloid ■ Plate, “The Egg Issue” (Marketing & Technology Group) ■ Heavy Duty Trucking, “Solving the Driver Crisis” (Newport Communications Group) ■ The American Lawyer, “Litigation 2007” (ALM) Best single issue of a magazine ■ Affordable Housing Finance, June 2007 issue (Hanley Wood) ■ Photo District News, September 2007 issue (Nielsen Business Media) ■ The American Lawyer, December 2006 issue (ALM) Best single issue of a newspaper/news tabloid ■ Financial Week, Nov. 12, 2007, issue (Crain Communications Inc.) ■ Convenience Store News, Oct. 22, 2007, issue (Nielsen Business Media) ■ Nation’s Restaurant News, May 21, 2007, issue (LebharFriedman) Best start-up publication ■ No awards given Best Web site ■ GreenSourceMag.com, GreenSource: The Magazine of Sustainable Design (McGrawHill Cos.) ■ ArchRecord.com, Architectural Record (McGraw-Hill Cos.) ■ Computerworld.com, Computerworld (IDG/Computerworld) Best online article or series ■ No awards given in first classification ■ Architectural Record, “Form or Function?: The Frank Stella Interview” (McGraw-Hill Cos.) ■ Computerworld, “A Week of Leopard” (IDG/Computerworld) Best blog ■ Jewelers’ CircularKeystone Online, “Cutting Remarks” (Reed Business Information) ■ EDN Online, “Brian’s Brain” (Reed Business Information) ■ Computerworld.com, Computerworld Blog (IDG/Computerworld) *Note: The winners of awards other than the Grand Neal are listed by category: small, medium, large. 6 | Media Business | April 2008 | mediabusinessonline.com http://www.greensourcemag.com http://www.archrecord.com http://www.computerworld.com http://www.archrecord.com http://www.computerworld.com http://mediabusinessonline.com

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Contents
'CSO's' 'Red Gold Rush' Takes Top Honors
Smaller Publishers Make Big Moves Online
Key Printing Trends to Keep Tabs on This Year
Sales & Marketing
M&A
Online
Events
People
Benchmarks
Economic Downturn Presents Opportunities

BtoB Media Business - April 2008