Posts Under: Jesse H Neal Awards

Former MPA CEO Linda Thomas Brooks Joins Connectiv As Interim Managing Director

Linda Thomas Brooks, former CEO of the Magazine Publishers Association, has joined Connectiv as interim Managing Director. Brooks will oversee day-to-day activities, help develop the strategic plan, and assist the association in identifying potential acquisition targets for growth.

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Behind B2B’s Best Media Brand: Chief Investment Officer

Long gone are the days when a B2B editor could be a platform specialist. A typical day for today’s b2B journalist runs the gamut from breaking news to in-depth features to data-driven content to webcast to podcast to event programming to awards programs and more, with social media tying in at every turn.  

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How One B2B Publisher Will Nearly Double Revenue in Less Than Two Years Without Events or Major Acquisitions

“We invest almost all the money back into our business.” That’s a line that trade reporters often hear, typically with a great deal of skepticism. When it is true, it typically means a certain group or technology within the organization is receiving the lion’s share of that investment (as a cub reporter I remember hearing a CEO give our B2B division a motivational speech that boiled down to pointing to the then red hot yet soon-to-crash consumer apartment guides and saying, “Be more like them”).  

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Reminder That B2B Can Be Awesome: Senator Credits IndustryDive Video With Changing His Vote

Senator Joe Manchin recently told Politico that he changed his mind to vote against the confirmation of Bernard McNamee, President Trump’s nominee for the Federal Energy Commission after viewing a video obtained by IndustryDive that showed McNamee sharply criticizing renewable energy and environmental groups while calling for a unified campaign to support fossil fuels.

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2018 McAllister Top Management Fellow Jeff Klein On the Rise of Multiplatform and Data Journalism at Medill

Each year, Connectiv and the Business Press Educational Foundation award the McAllister Editorial Fellowship and the McAllister Top Management Fellowship to an editor and an executive, respectively. These fellowships promote the study of business media, with McAllister Fellows acting as teachers and advisors for approximately one week on the Medill Magazine Project at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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