And the ASBPE Magazine of the Year finalists are...

In the under 80,000 circulation division, the finalists are:

• American Lawyer
• Chain Leader
• CIO Decisions
• CIO Insight
• CSO
• HealthLeaders
• Hospitals & Health Networks
• Information Security
• Meetings & Conventions
• Residential Architect

In the 80,000 and over division, the finalists are:

• Builder
• BusinessWeek
• SmallBiz
• CIO
• CFO
• Computerworld
• Government Computer News
• HR Magazine
• IndustryWeek
• Remodeling Restaurants & Institutions

The winner will be announced on July 20 at the Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet during the ASBPE’s National Editorial Conference.

What makes these 20 magazines great? The judges evaluated these pubs on:

• Writing, reporting, and editing.
• Usefulness to the reader.
• Editorial organization.
• Interaction with readers.
• Layout and design.

Congrats to the finalists. And for the rest of us, I included the links to the pubs' websites for a reason: Ideas to inspire changes to improve the publication I work on.