ENR Takes Home Prestigious Journalism Awards

The Jesse H. Neal Awards are among the many most prestigious in specialised enterprise journalism, and two ENR submissions have been chosen at its New York Metropolis recognition occasion on Might 16 to win first-place for excellence. At 71, the competitors has grown in variety of contributors, vary of reports, points and tendencies reported on, and use of latest digital instruments and media platforms to share content material.

Says the Neal Awards about submitters’ mission: “Day-after-day, you problem audiences to assume critically about their companies and encourage them to develop and innovate. You engaged deeply on social points and implications in your markets. Your visible design and digital manufacturing [are]extra refined, and also you’ve tailored technique and developed new merchandise in response to your ever-changing business.”

An ENR precedence is to current in essentially the most comprehensible and crowd pleasing manner the achievements of its viewers members and results of the complicated work they do—which requires capability to share element clearly and with affect. As such, ENR was acknowledged, in its submitter income class, for greatest scientific and technical content material.

The award was based mostly on three putting cowl tales revealed in 2024. The July 1 problem highlighted the superb features and nonetheless nagging hurdles in growing nuclear fusion energy to scale—overseen by Deputy Editor Debra Ok. Rubin, with robust visuals by Senior Artwork Director Scott Hilling and key enter from contributing writers Mary Powers and Peter Reina. The crew drew on many sources, together with fusion energy skeptics, to stipulate how competing applied sciences goal to succeed.

Its two accompanying class submissions targeted on design and building challenges of the large one-of-a sort Magellan telescope in the Chilean desert by Deputy Editor Jeff Rubenstone (Sept. 11), and the exacting asymmetry of the Longwood Gardens glasshouse in Delaware, by just lately retired at-large buildings editor Nadine M. Publish (July 17). Publish additionally was key in a canopy story that concerned the whole ENR crew of 20+ editors, which earned a win within the Neals class for an awards program. The March 11 package deal highlighted winners of ENR’s Best Projects competitors. The gathering of 20 mission tales supplied easy-to-understand mission highlights that clearly impressed the Neals jury.

ENR additionally introduced dwelling a number of awards from the American Society of Enterprise Publication Editors’ Azbee Awards of Excellence, which has existed since 1964 to acknowledge business-to-business editorial excellence.

The nuclear fusion cowl story received a nationwide gold award. Hilling received a silver award for his opening unfold design for ENR’s Top 20 Under 40 cowl story; and Editor-in-Chief Scott Blair, Senior Editor Pam McFarland and Video Manufacturing Supervisor Drew Lockwood received a bronze award for the profile of ENR Award of Excellence winner Kit Miyamoto.

We hope the popularity illustrates ENR’s dedication to supplying you with the perfect journalism amongst specialised enterprise media.

Richard Korman

Deputy Editor