IEEE Spectrum garnered high honors at this yr’s annual Jesse H. Neal Awards ceremony, held on 21 April. Known because the Pulitzer Prizes of business-to-business journalism, the Neal Awards acknowledge editorial excellence. The SIIA (Software and Information Industry Association) bestows the awards.
For the fourth yr in a row, IEEE Spectrum was awarded the Best Range of Work by a Media Brand. The honor is given for general editorial excellence.
IEEE Spectrum and its employees additionally acquired these awards:
- Best Art Direction for a Cover. “Do High-Tech Prosthetics Serve Their Users?” (October 2022). Creative Director Mark Montgomery, Photography Director Randi Klett, and photographer Gabriela Hasbun.
- Best Subject-Related Package. “The Transistor at 75” (December 2022). Senior Editor Samuel K. Moore and the Spectrum employees.
- Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coverage. “Nothing About Us Without Us” (October 2022). Acting Editor in Chief Harry Goldstein, Special Projects Editor Stephen Cass, Senior Editor Eliza Strickland, Contributing Editor Mark E. Harris, and Writer and Human Geographer Britt H. Young).
- Best Overall Art Direction/Design. “The Art of Cryptokitties (September 2022); “Radio Spectrum Turf Wars” (July 2022); and “The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival” (April 2022). Creative Director Mark Montgomery, Deputy Art Director Brandon Palacio, Online Art Director Erik Vrielink, and Photography Director Randi Klett.
- Best Single Article. “Bionic Vision: An IEEE Spectrum Investigation” (February 2022). Senior Editor Eliza Strickland and Contributing Editor Mark E. Harris.
- Best Single Issue of Tabloid, Newspaper, or Magazine. “The Transistor at 75” (December 2022).
- Best Range of Work by a Single Author. Senior Editor Eliza Strickland on synthetic intelligence, neurotechnology, and geoengineering.
- Best Range of Work by a Media Brand.
Business enhancing and writing awards
IEEE Spectrum additionally received two awards and garnered an honorable point out from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. It was the primary time the publication had vied for the awards. IEEE Spectrum competed in opposition to greater than 190 information organizations together with worldwide, nationwide, and regional shops and specialised enterprise publications.
“Every day, IEEE Spectrum’s editors bring our readers the most insightful technology journalism around, and year after year our efforts are recognized by our peers,” Goldstein says. “It’s gratifying to know that IEEE members and the organization as a whole support our work, and that we’re giving them the best information in context as they tackle the thorniest problems facing humanity.”
Strickland provides that she and her coauthor, Harris, are honored by the accolades for his or her investigative article about Second Sight, a bionic-vision firm that left early adopters with out of date gadgetry of their eyes and brains.
“Technology journalism can’t just be cheerleading for the newest innovations,” she says. “IEEE Spectrum’s readers are critical thinkers who want to understand how advanced technologies are changing our society. We can help by bringing them the stories that matter most.”