Mainebiz recently returned from the annual Alliance of Area Business Publishers conference in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. It’s always a major event for us and we come back with a lot of ideas. It’s great to meet the publishers, editors and reporters at other business publications and see how they do things. It’s also a chance […]
Mainebiz recently returned from the annual Alliance of Area Business Publishers conference in Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
It’s always a major event for us and we come back with a lot of ideas. It’s great to meet the publishers, editors and reporters at other business publications and see how they do things.
It’s also a chance to compete against publications from around the U.S., Canada and Australia.
On that note, I’m happy to report that Mainebiz earned eight awards, including silver for Best Newspaper in the Medium Tabloid category.
Entries in the annual contest are judged by faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Mainebiz Art Director Matt Selva netted gold for Best Overall Design in the Medium Tabloid category for 2025 editions published on
May 19 (“Trouble in Toyland”),
July 28 (“Portland at a crossroads”),
Sept. 8 (“Maine snack attack) and
Oct. 6 (“40 Under 40”).
Mainebiz also received a silver award for Best use of Photography/Illustrations and swept the Best Newspaper Medium Tabloid category with its sister publications in Hartford, Conn., and Worcester, Mass. All three are owned by New England Business Media.
For the second year in a row, Mainebiz won a silver award in the Best Ancillary Publication category for
Fact Book, praised by the judges as both informative and visually compelling.
Mainebiz won four awards in journalism categories for Medium Tabloid publications, including top honors for Best Recurring Feature and Best Beat Reporting — Real Estate.
“Made in Maine,” a series introduced in 2025 to showcase small manufacturers producing a range of products, garnered gold for Best Recurring Feature, based on submissions by
Alexis Wells,
Renee Cordes and
me.
Mainebiz received gold for the real estate beat recognized cover stories by
Tina Fischer, Laurie Schreiber and
Renee Cordes.
Cordes, who joined Mainebiz in 2017, won gold for Best Beat Reporting — Economics and Finance for stories including
“Trouble in Toyland” and
“Capital gains.”
She also won gold for Best Feature — Single Story for her
“Portland at a crossroads” cover story, adding to recent accolades from the Society for Advancing Business Writing and Editing and the
New England Newspaper and Press Association for her in-depth report on the city’s downtown struggles.
