Six recent honors from the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists and the national APEX competition raise the BizVoice total of national and state recognitions to 69. The honors received for 2013 work include:
APEX Awards of Excellence:
- Rebecca Patrick: Interviews & Personal Profiles, “2013 Business Leader of the Year Steve Ferguson”
- Tom Schuman: Health & Medical Writing, “Extreme Hospital Makeover”
Indiana SPJ
- Matt Ottinger: Business/Consumer Affairs reporting: 2nd place for “Africa Under Construction”
- Rebecca Patrick: Coverage of Government or Politics: 3rd place for “2013 Indiana Legislature: The Good, the Bad and the Lack of Ugly”
- Charlee Beasor: Medical or Science Reporting: 3rd place for “Medicine, Minus the Middle Man”
- Tom Schuman: Medical or Science Reporting: Honorable mention for “Extreme Hospital Makeover”
One of the highlights remains a Grand Award in the national APEX competition for the “Let’s Make a (Business) Deal” five-story package in the September-October 2011 edition. Stories were written by Rebecca Patrick and Tom Schuman. There were nearly 3,400 entrants with 100 earning the Grand Award.