2017 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Overall Excellence > Magazine of the Year > More Than $3 Million Revenue
Awarded to
Keith E. Crain, Editor-in-chief; Jason Stein, Publisher and Editor; and Editorial Staff
Entry details
Automotive News
Issue date (if applicable):
Publication name: Automotive News
Publishing company: Crain Communications Inc.
Website home page: autonews.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
Automotive News serves automakers, suppliers and dealers. Our 57,000 paid subscribers are split roughly into thirds: dealers; automakers and suppliers; and others. Our mission is to be the primary source of industry news, data and insight for the industry’s decision makers. We provide our audience the information they need, in a timely manner and in the format that they desire. Automotive News (in weekly tabloid print, digital and e-newsletter formats), autonews.com, related magazines, our daily webcasts -- First Shift in the a.m. and AutoNews Now in the p.m. -- and our specialized e-newsletters are part of Crain Communications. Our website has 340,000 registered users and averages 2.2 million visits a month, with 1.3 million unique visitors. The vast majority of our articles are staff written. Our coverage includes regular monthly pages/departments: Production Line, Connected Car, Marketing, Finance & Insurance, Fixed Operations, and Remarketing. The first is devoted to supplier/technology news; the last three to key dealership profit centers. Industry executives pay up to $1,500 to attend our annual events, proof that they see value in those events. These include (with 2017 attendance): Automotive News World Congress (1,100+), L.A. and N.Y. marketing seminars (800+; 500+); Best Dealerships To Work For seminars and dinner (400), and PACE awards for supplier innovation (450).
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
Some in the auto industry don’t like Ralph Nader. But Automotive News supported him early on, recognizing that his work made the industry better. So when he was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame, he stopped by our office for an exclusive interview. Page 1 of the July 25 issue also had a scoop on Chrysler’s internal investigation into false sales reporting, an analysis of what was arguably the biggest regulatory issue of the year – setting new federal mpg targets – and a tease to our future-product series, which gives our readers extremely valuable insight into their rivals’ plans.
Another scoop on P. 4 (“Who pays wholesale for auto loans?”) came because Arlena Sawyers was the sole reporter there – only Automotive News covered the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers convention.
The Aug. 1 issue explained that the diesel “defeat device” that VW used to cheat on U.S. emissions rules is common and legal in Europe, and carried our annual “State of Suppliers” deep dive into suppliers’ business. A related P. 1 report showed that, contrary to popular belief, the U.S., not Mexico, got the bulk of suppliers’ investment over the last decade.
On Aug. 8, we profiled rapidly growing Cox Automotive and looked both a simmering factory-dealer dispute at Cadillac and, continuing our coverage of safety, the issue of child heat deaths.
Breaking news, analysis, features, access to top executives and articles not found elsewhere make Automotive News must reading in our industry.
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Automotive News
Category
Overall Excellence > Magazine of the Year > More Than $3 Million Revenue
Description
Publication name:
Automotive News
Company:
Crain Communications Inc.
Winner Status
- Magazine of the Year Top 10 Award
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