Ward's Takes 4 Editorial Honors in ASBPE Contest

Ward's Wins Four Awards in the 2009 American Society of Business Press Editors' annual editorial excellence and design contest.

Steve Finlay, editor of Ward's Dealer Business magazine, won an editorial-writing national Gold award for two entries, “The Dealer Made Me Do It!” and “Auto Industry's Problem Child.” The editorials were about auto financing woes and auto-leasing curtailments, respectively.

Finlay also won a column-writing national Bronze award for two entries, “The Hummer Summer of 2002” about the plunging popularity of Hummer SUVs and “Dizzy from Cliff-Diving Charts” about the plunging economy.

Barbara McClellan, editor of WardsAuto.com, won a regional Gold award in the technical-article competition for “Food vs. Fuel: Rough Road Ahead for Biofuels,” a story examining the global debate over using food crops to power vehicles.

Drew Winter, editor of Wards AutoWorld, captured a regional Silver award for “Let's Avoid Vehicular Communism,” an editorial about government pressure on auto makers to build small cars.