Today’s Trucking shines at national business magazine awards; Named Best Website
TORONTO — It was a decorative showing for Today’s Trucking, TodaysTrucking.com, and French-language sister publication Transport Routier at the 2006 Kenneth R. Wilson Awards last night.
In what was perhaps one of the best single award showings in its history, Newcom Business Media, the publisher of the aforementioned publications, took home three Gold Awards, one Silver, and three other Top Five honorable mentions.
The KRW Awards, presented annually by the Canadian Business Press, represent the best of trade and business magazine journalism in Canada.
Gold award for Best How-To Article
Improving on its second-prize, Silver placement last year, TodaysTrucking.com received the coveted Gold Award for Best Website in 2006. Today’s Trucking Editorial Director Rolf Lockwood, Senior Editor Marco Beghetto and Webmaster Martin Smith were named as recipients.
This website has been named a finalist in both of the first two years the category was introduced.
Marco Beghetto and Routier Editor Steve Bouchard swept the Best Resource-Infrastructure category. Their joint-byline piece on the future of wide-base tires in Canada, Simple Evolution, was awarded Gold. Beghetto also wrapped up the Silver award with Biodebatable, a story detailing the pros and cons of biodiesel; and Sounds Like a Plan — his exclusive article describing NY traffic guru Sam Schwartz’s solution to Windsor’s border woes — was also recognized in the Top Five.
Jim Park, contributing editor to Today’s Trucking and editor of highwaySTAR magazine, was honored with a Gold Award for Best How-To Article. The story, Spec By Numbers, is an essential read for truckers spec’ing for fuel economy. Bouchard received a Top Five nod for Le Plaisir de Recevoir in the same category.
Everybody Loves Alain — a profile of truckload giant TransForce, penned by Bouchard, Today’s Trucking Editor Peter Carter and contributor Anthony Evangelista — also finished in the Top Five for Best Profile of a Company.
Today’s Trucking and Transport Routier were the only two trucking-transportation magazines to receive a Gold or Silver award.
Since 1994, Newcom’s trucking publications have been awarded with eight Gold, seven Silver, and 12 Top Five honorable mentions. Today’s Trucking alone is one of the winningest trade magazines in all of Canada for editorial content.
In 2003, Editorial Director Rolf Lockwood was given the CBP Harvey Southam Editorial Lifetime Achievement Award — a rare honour given selectively to only those who exemplify leadership in the field of business journalism.
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