Editorial Excellence Awards
AABP conducts an Editorial and Design Excellence Competition annually. The competition is coordinated and judged by faculty in the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The purpose of the competition is to encourage a high level of journalistic performance and service to communities by recognizing editorial excellence and outstanding visual presentation in regional business publications.
The 2022 AABP Editorial Excellence Award contest is now open and closes on March 11, 2022. Log into the BetterBNC.com site and choose the 2022 AABP Editorial Excellence Award contest to enter. To pay for your awards, click on THIS LINK.
Categories that require mailed entries include Best overall design, Best ancillary publication, Most improved publication, Best Magazine and Best Newspaper must be mailed to the University postmarked by March 11, 2022. Please be sure to submit 3 sets of materials for each mailed entry. It should be entered online just once.
AABP Awards, c/o Kara Lehenbauer
University of Missouri, School of Journalism
41 Walter Williams Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
2019 Editorial Excellence Awards
Past Award Winners
Below are links to the Press Release and List of Award Winners for the last several years.
- 2018 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Washington, DC
- 2017 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Dallas, TX
- 2016 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Des Moines, IA
- 2015 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Charlotte, NC
- 2014 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Baltimore, MD
- 2013 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Nashville, TN
- 2012 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Milwaukee, WI
- 2011 Editorial Excellence Awards – presented in Providence, RI
Lewis M. Conn Award
The Lewis M. Conn Award is named in honor of Lewis Conn, who was the owner/publisher of Kentucky Business Ledger — one of the oldest regional business publications in the US started shortly after WWII.