Editorial Awards

The purpose of this blog is to give you an insider's view of some of the things we do here at Hanley Wood that are often overlooked or lost in the spam filter. My goal is to offer insights that we observe in the hopes that you come back on a regular basis and eventually contribute to an ongoing discussion. My name is Rob Britt and I am the Publisher of Hanley Wood's Multifamily Group which includes Affordable Housing Finance, Apartment Finance Today, Developer and Multifamily Executive.

On that note, what better way to start a blog than to ackowledge some accomplishments of our best and brightest? Providing engaging information to our readers is what we do best and being recognized by other B2B editors is certainly a key indicator of performance. Hats off to our editorial team for bringing home the nominations in the 2007 ASBPE Awards (American Society of Business Publication Editors).

* Affordable Housing Finance is a finalist for a Regional ASPBE award:

- Editorial/Editor's Letter Category: Editor-in-Chief, Andre Shashaty’s Grapevine columns in the October and December 2006 issues.

* Multifamily Executive is also a finalist for three regional awards this year:

- Regular Department: Tech Specs, a monthly department written by steadfast freelancer Joe Bousquin
- Individual/Company Profile: "Urban Legend," Rachel Z. Azoff's October 2006 cover story on Forest City Residential CEO Ronald Ratner
- Opening Page Spread/Illustration: "Disappearing Act," a custom illustration assigned by Melissa Goldweitz to accompany Les Shaver's report on the vanishing apartment supply.

These are just a few of the recent accolades that are worth noting, and definitely worth reading if you hadn't had the chance to do so. Our editors set the bar higher each year knowing that readers have more places to go for information with each passing day.