2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Overall Excellence > Magazine of the Year > More Than $3 Million Revenue
Awarded to
Richard Johnson, Editor, Automotive News - Print; Jason Stein, Publisher and Editor; Dave Versical, director of editorial operations; Steve Massie, Design Director; Editorial Staff
Entry details
Automotive News
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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 61,000 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, Automotive News Europe, 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 561,000 registered users and 1.9 million visits a month. As the industry’s premier publication, we have unparalleled access to top industry executives. All but a few of our articles are staff written. The breadth of our coverage shows in our 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 the presentations and networking opportunities. These include (with latest attendance): Automotive News World Congress, in Detroit (1,200+), L.A. and N.Y. marketing seminars (1,000+; 600+); Best Dealerships To Work For seminars and dinner, in Chicago (450), and PACE awards for supplier innovation, in Detroit (450).
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
These issues kicked off a 6-part series examining Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne’s assertion that the industry’s business model is fundamentally flawed. Later, when Marchionne’s PR people were still ignoring our requests to interview him, Chrysler beat reporter Larry Vellequette emailed Marchionne directly. The CEO called Vellequette that evening, conceding, “I probably owe you a conversation.” Marchionne said he had read “every word” of the initial installments — a striking affirmation of our reader engagement — then, in a two-hour interview, issued an industry-shaking call for General Motors to merge with FCA. Some of the other exclusives and analyses in these issues: *How Ford and Ram had made engineering changes to certain pickups to pass crash tests. The changes came after Automotive News had alerted the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that some of those pickups — previously untested by IIHS — lacked the protective bars found on the versions that IIHS had tested. *How the VW-Suzuki alliance soured, with implications for a Chrysler-GM merger. *How NHTSA was leveraging its regulatory tools in response to an avalanche of safety recalls. *Changes at TrueCar, the third-party lead provider dealers love to hate. *A “State of Suppliers” section, including exclusive interviews with key Japanese suppliers. *Three of our 9-part Future Product Pipeline series. That series, in print and updated all year online, is one of the industry’s valued reference works. *Issues around GM’s importing a Buick from China. *A look at startups challenging the status quo.
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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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