This scholarship program aims to maintain interest in the B2B publishing world with younger editors who are advancing in their editorial careers. The scholarship is sponsored by TABPI and the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). It allows younger editors – who might otherwise be unable – to attend an educational B2B editorial event.
This year's scholarship is to attend the ASBPE Editorial Conference scheduled for New York City, 2 – 3 August, 2007. The conference contains an evening networking event on 1 August, followed by two full days of intensive editorial sessions on topics that will include:
After graduating from the University of Western Ontario with her MA in Journalism in 2003, Chris started her journalism career as a columnist for leading Canadian newspaper, the Toronto Star, before finding her way into the manufacturing side of B2B publishing. She loves the turn her career has taken and looks forward to exploring all facets B2B journalism has to offer.
Pig Progress is a Reed Business publication, produced in Doetinchem, the Netherlands. Ter Beek joined Reed Business in 2005; prior to that he worked as a journalist at a local daily, De Twentsche Courant Tubantia, for two years and also spent one year as a History teacher at a college. He graduated from Groningen University, the Netherlands, and has an MA in History and Journalism. He also studied for several months in the cities of Brighton and Harlow in the UK.
Last year's winners were Anthony Fletcher, editor of FoodNavigator.com, named news website of the year in the UK's food journalism awards 2005, and South African Natalia Thomson of Now Media, as the managing editor of an inbound travel and tourism trade publication, Southern African Tourism Update.
