WBJ wins top design award in international journalism competition
Design | Mitchell Hayes
The cover of the May 30, 2022 edition of WBJ, one of the award-winning entries in the Alliance of Area Business Publishers competition
Worcester Business Journal on Monday night won two awards from the international journalism trade organization Alliance of Area Business Publishers, including the top prize for overall design.
“AABP is our main journalism trade association, full of peer publications providing excellent business-to-business reporting across the globe. To be selected as one of the top designed publications in AABP is an incredible honor,” WBJ Editor Brad Kane said.
WBJ Art Director Mitchell Hayes won the Gold award in the Best Overall Design category for medium-sized newspapers for his work putting together the print edition of WBJ in 2022.
“The designer and editors do an admirable job of assigning, collecting and displaying strong art of local business people, companies and events,” wrote the judges from the University of Missouri School of Journalism about Hayes’ work. “The typography is clean, legible and the bold subheads are effective in communicating content and in inserting a bit of white space in layouts.”
Former WBJ staff writer Katherine Hamilton won the second WBJ award from AABP, earning a Silver award in the Best Local Coverage of Breaking News category for her story about Auburn company Solar Wolf closing and leaving its customers with little recourse to recover their money.
"More and more organizations are using social media to announce business-related matters, and what started as a Facebook post led to a well-reported look at a business decision that left dozens of people hanging out to dry. Dogged following of the company’s decision led to more information and more questions, and more digging into a troubled history," the judges wrote.
WBJ’s sister publications Hartford Business Journal and MaineBiz – all owned by parent company New England Business Media – took home several awards from the AABP event as well. HBJ won seven awards, including the Bronze award in the medium-sized Best Newspaper category. MaineBiz won three awards, including two for design and one for coverage of the banking and finance industry.
The AABP awards competition includes publications from the U.S., Canada, and Australia, including in markets like Dallas, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles.
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