2018 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Online > Video - News > Heartland

Awarded to

Leslie J. Allen, Managing Editor; China Haley, Staff Reporter; Jesse Snyder, Senior Correspondent; Dave Versical, Director of Editorial Operations; Jennifer Vuong, Anchor and Producer; Tom Worobec, Editor and Anchor; Ursula Zerilli, Staff Reporter

Entry details

AutoNews Now

Issue date (if applicable): 11/30/2017
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 paywalled website has 340,000 registered users and averages 2.2 million visits a month, with 1.3 million unique visitors. Our 56 full-time editorial staffers produce almost all of our online and print content. 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 (1,000+), L.A. and N.Y. marketing seminars (700; 400); Best Dealerships To Work For seminars and dinner (400+), and PACE awards for supplier innovation (400).

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

The mission: Cover 16 press conferences at three industry events in multiple locations within 72 hours. That was just one challenge facing two Automotive News TV journalists at the 2017 Los Angeles auto show. Jennifer Vuong and Tom Worobec – who are one-person-bands – successfully carried out their assignments.

ANTV’s goal is to make viewers feel as if they are attending the auto show by providing compelling video from vehicle unveilings and commentary from executives. Above all, ANTV produces same- or next-day coverage to ensure viewers have timely information.

Vuong and Worobec spent four hours prior to the show securing on-site interviews with executives. They also developed a plan to cover simultaneous vehicle unveilings. As a result, Vuong and Worobec – who film, write and edit their stories – jointly produced, hosted and posted five daily online newscasts (First Shift, AutoNews Now) from the show. They also directed ANTV’s weekend newscast from the show.

Vuong and Worobec faced daily deadline pressure due to the three-hour time difference between Pacific Standard Time and Eastern Standard Time. With events occurring on PST, the anchors had to meet the newscasts’ deadlines of 8:45 a.m. EST for First Shift, and 4 p.m. EST for AutoNews Now. Therefore, newscasts had to be filmed, written and edited quickly to meet the daily deadlines. The pair also coordinated with their Detroit colleagues who provided editing support for a By The Numbers auto sales segment.

Links to entry URLs

Please note: These URLs are only required for entries in the Online division categories, entries in the Design division categories that are specific to websites, entries in the Website of the Year category, and entries in the Cross-Platform Package of the Year category.

Entry URL(s), if applicable:
https://bcove.video/2B6C5Jx

Links to Uploaded Entry Files

Please note: The links below are the same links as clicking on the Preview images at the top of this column. You may click the links below to view each submitted entry file.

View entry file #1 
View entry file #2 
View entry file #3 
View entry file #4
View entry file #5 
View entry file #6 
View entry file #7 
View entry file #8 
View entry file #9 
View entry file #10