2019 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Overall Excellence > Website of the Year

Awarded to

Jason Hiner, Global Editor in Chief; Bill Detwiler, Senior Managing Editor; Mary Weilage, Associate Managing Editor; Dan Kamas, Senior Product Manager

Entry details

TechRepublic

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Publication name: TechRepublic
Publishing company: CBS Interactive
Website home page: https://www.techrepublic.com/

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

TechRepublic is a multiplatform publication that helps professionals make smart decisions about technology. With over 10 million readers in over 150 countries, TechRepublic has become one of the world's most widely read publications on B2B technology since its launch in May 1999. Its users run the gamut from entrepreneurs and small business owners to software engineers and CIOs. TechRepublic provides them with news analysis, tips, best practices, case studies, and advice. As a 21st century brand, TechRepublic tells stories in many different ways, including feature stories, tutorials, long-form reports, explainer videos, multimedia slideshows, and social media posts. The goal of all TechRepublic content is to help its users make great technology decisions that can improve their organizations and make them more innovative and efficient than ever.

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

With the race for digital transformation accelerating across all industries, nearly every company is now a technology company. TechRepublic's writers and editors wake up every day determined to help professionals make great decisions about technology—because we know that those decisions will have a major impact on the future of their organizations as well as their own careers. In 2018, that involved dealing with the rise of artificial intelligence, preparing for the impact of robots and automation on the future of jobs, dealing with cybersecurity threats that have risen to the level of public safety threats, integrating more and more Internet of Things devices into the organization, and harnessing big data to make everything run smarter, faster, and more efficiently. To help users keep up with the latest innovations, TechRepublic doubled the amount of video we create each week in order to meet the demand for more interactive content, published and updated over 100 "cheat sheets" on the most important new technologies and products in the industry, and published investigative reports on hyperloop and the future of transportation, the future of food and agriculture, the future of retail shopping, the rise of Russian hacking and how to stop it, and the impact of Brexit on the tech ecosystem in England. We also rolled out redesigned parts of the TechRepublic site in incremental steps so that it would be less disruptive to users and allow us to incorporate their feedback as we progressed.

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https://www.techrepublic.com/

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