The Judging Board for the 2000 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards

Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, May, 2000

Chair of the Neal Board of Judges:

Marshall Loeb: Columnist, CBS Market Watch and Author; Broadcast Commentator. Formerly, Editor, Columbia Journalism Review.

The Board of Judges:

Diana Henriques: Financial Investigative Reporter, The New York Times and Author.

Abe Peck: Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University; Director, National Arts Journalism Program and Author.

Don Ranly: Professor of Journalism and Head of Magazine Program, School of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia and Author.

Chris Welles: Photographer and Author. Formerly, Senior Editor, Business Week.

The Judging Process:

Submitted entries were required to have been published in English in an issue with a cover date between December 1, 1998 through November 30, 1999.

Each entry was submitted in one of three classifications (except for categories for single issue of a newspaper/news tabloid and Web site, which were not broken down by revenue and were judged as single groups):

A - Gross advertising and circulation revenues of up to $3,000,000

B - Gross advertising and circulation revenues of $3,000,000 to $7,000,000

C - Gross advertising and circulation revenue of more than $7,000,000

Within each classification there were seven editorial categories:

* Single Article

* Staff-Written Editorials

* How-to Article or Series

* Single Issue of a Magazine

* Subject-Related Series

* Featured Department or Column

* News Coverage

All 1,116 entries were first screened by a group of 140 ABP member editors. The highest scoring entries were passed on to the Stage II Screening Panel, and from that group, 69 finalists, three entries per category, went before the Board of Judges who arrived at 23 Neal Awards. The final judging took place over a two-day period. The Grand Neal Award, established in 1996, was awarded to the entry that the judges felt best exemplified editorial excellence in the business press. Judging criteria included journalistic enterprise, extent of service to the field and editorial craftsmanship.