DAILY BRIEFING
Editorial Excellence
I am pleased to announce that GovExec.com has been named Best Nonprint Trade Magazine in Folio: magazine's 1998 Editorial Excellence awards.
In the awards competition, Folio:, the leading journal for the magazine industry, rates magazines on how well they fulfill their mission statements. This year, a panel of prominent editors, publishers and consultants from around the country evaluated 472 print and Web publications--more than in any previous year. Of those, 59 were chosen as winners. Only two of the winners were online magazines.
In honoring GovExec.com, the judges said the site contains "up-to-the-minute information presented with no b.s. Perfect for the in-and-out info retrieval that its readers seek."
Other winners of this year's Editorial Excellence awards included Time, Entertainment Weekly, Smart Money, and Car and Driver.
The entire staff of Government Executive contributes to making GovExec.com a success. But two people, assistant editor Brian Friel and staff writer Alison Maxwell, deserve special mention. If you're a regular visitor to the site, you'll notice their bylines every day on our news stories. But you may not be aware of the myriad other contributions they make: preparing special reports, updating databases, converting stories from the print magazine into HTML and making sure that our back-end software works the way it's supposed to.
When we entered the Folio: awards, we said our mission was "to cover daily news about the business of the federal government and provide full archives of information for the officials who manage the government's departments and agencies." We're happy the judges thought we achieved that goal. But we're more interested in what you think. So drop me a line at tshoop@govexec.com and let me know how we're doing--and what we can do to continue to improve our service to you.
Tom Shoop
Editor
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