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 2023 AABP Editorial Excellence Award contest is now closed for the year. The awards will be presented at the Summer Conference which is June 24-26, 2023 in Detroit, MI. The awards banquet is Monday, June 26.
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 10, 2023. Please be sure to submit 3 sets of materials for each mailed entry. It should be entered online just once.
Jeanne Abbott
Jeanne Abbott
Missouri School of Journalism
313 Lee Hills Hall
221 S. Eighth St.
Columbia, MO 65201
Lifetime Achievement Award
Rolfe McCollister of Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, receives the 2022 Lewis M. Conn Lifetime Achievement Award.
2021 Editorial Excellence Awards
2020 Editorial Excellence Awards
2019 Editorial Excellence Awards
Past Award Winners
Below are links to the Press Release and List of Award Winners for the last several years.
- 2022 Editorial Excellence Awards Winners list
- 2021 Editorial Excellence Awards | Winners list
- 2020 Editorial Excellence Awards | Winners list
- 2019 Editorial Excellence Awards | Winners list
- 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.