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A Publication of the Amputee Coalition of America
Awards for Publication Excellence
2007 Apex Awards:
inMotion Wins 2007APEX Award
The Amputee Coalition of America’s publication inMotion has received a 2007 APEX Award for Publication Excellence – this year in the category of Interviews & Personal Profiles.
The award specifically recognized associate editor Scott McNutt, then a staff writer, for his article “Relationships Rescued Him.” The article, published in the January/February 2007 issue of inMotion, profiled TIME Magazine senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf. After losing a hand in Iraq and spending time as a patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Weisskopf chronicled his experiences in a book titled Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57.
This makes the 10th APEX award inMotion has received over the past nine years for overall editorial excellence and writing in a variety of subcategories.
Communications Concepts, Inc., is the sponsor of the APEX awards. Judges included John De Lellis, Concepts editor and publisher, Christine Turner, contributing editor of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report, Bill Londino, consulting editor of Writing That Works, and Carolyn Mulford, senior writer and editor of Writing That Works and senior evaluator for the Publication Evaluation Program.
inMotion was competing against “the most promising publications that professional communicators could enter,” according to Communications Concepts. The sponsors say that the entries get better every year, and selecting the winning entries was truly difficult this year.
Congratulations, inMotion, and congratulations, Scott!
2006 APEX Awards:
ACA Publications Win Two 2006 APEX Awards
The Amputee Coalition of America’s publications inMotion and Expectations – Parenting Children and Teens With Limb Differences have each won 2006 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence.
ACA’s bimonthly magazine inMotion won in the “Magazines & Journals – Print Four Color” subcategory, and the targeted publication Expectations won in the “One-of-a-Kind – Print Publications” subcategory.
This makes the ninth APEX award inMotion has received over the past eight years for overall editorial excellence and writing in a variety of subcategories.
The entries this year were “very” competitive, according to Communications Concepts, Inc., the sponsor of the APEX awards. With 796 entries in the “Magazines & Journals” category and 227 entries in the “Special Publications” category, inMotion was competing against what Communications Concepts describes as “the most promising publications that professional communicators could enter.”
2005 APEX Awards:
inMotion Wins Eighth APEX Award
The Amputee Coalition of America’s bimonthly magazine inMotion has been awarded a 2005 APEX Award for Publication Excellence in the “Magazines & Journals – Printed Four Color" subcategory.
This makes the eighth APEX award inMotion has received over the past seven years for overall editorial excellence and writing in a variety of subcategories.
2004 APEX Awards:
inMotion Wins Seventh APEX Award
ACA bimonthly inMotion magazine has been awarded a 2004 Award for Publication Excellence (APEX) in the "Magazine & Journals - Printed Four Color" category. There were 789 entries in the Magazines & Journals category.
This is the seventh APEX award inMotion has received over the past six years for overall editorial excellence and writing. Competition was intense once again this year, with total number of entries totaling 5,462! Of these entries, 1,667 APEX Awards of Excellence recognized exceptional entries in 109 individual categories.
The panel of judges included John De Lellis, Concepts editor & publisher, Christine Turner, contributing editor of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report, and Bill Londino, Concepts senior evaluator and consulting editor.
2003 APEX Awards:
inMotion Wins Sixth APEX Award!
ACA's bimonthly inMotion magazine won a 2003 Award for Publication Excellence (APEX) in the "Magazine & Journal Writing" category. This is the sixth APEX award inMotion has received over the past five years for overall editorial excellence and writing.
With close to 5,000 entries, competition was exceptionally intense. Of these entries, 1,541 Awards of Excellence recognized exceptional entries in most of 105 subcategories. There were 763 entries in the Magazine & Journal Writing category.
Judges included John De Lellis, Concepts editor and publisher, Christine Turner, contributing editor of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report, and Dr. Paul Fisher, Concepts senior evaluator and formerly professor of journalism with the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
2002 APEX Awards:
inMotion & First Step Win APEX Awards!
ACA's bimonthly inMotion magazine, and biennial publication First Step - A Guide For Adapting to Limb Loss were each winners of 2002 Awards for Publications Excellence (APEX).
inMotion won for editorial excellence in the Feature Writing category, and First Step for overall excellence in the Special Publications category.
A total of 5,863 entries were received in this year's competition in 100 individual categories. In the Feauture Writing category, 938 entries were received and in Special Publications 235 entries were received.
This is the fourth consecutive year that inMotion has won a total of five APEX Awards and both editions of First Step have won APEX Awards.
2001 APEX Awards:
inMotion Wins Two Apex Awards!
inMotion, ACA's bimonthly magazine, is the recipient of two 2001 Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX).
The first APEX Award was in the "Magazines and Journals" category, based on overall excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry * in the opinion of the judges * in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
The second APEX Award was for "Magazine and Journal Writing." inMotion was selected from 724 entrants in these categories.
A total of 5,129 entries were received in this year's competition in 97 individual categories. This is the third consecutive year that inMotion has won APEX Awards.
2000 APEX Award:
Both First Step and inMotion were winners of a 2000 APEX Award!
First Step: A Guide for Adapting to Limb Loss was granted an Award for Publications Excellence (APEX) in the "One-of-a-Kind Publications - Printed" category from 153 entries.
inMotion was also granted an 2000 APEX award from 702 magazines and journals submitted in the Magazines and Journals category. As many of you may remember, inMotion won an award in this category in 1999.
4,932 entries were received overall; 1,274 APEX awards were given in 96 individual categories. 66 "Grand Awards" - i.e., best in show in each category were given in 11 major categories - MAYBE NEXT YEAR!
APEX 2000 awards were based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry - in the opinion of the judges - in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
The panel of judges included: John De Lellis, Concepts Editor & Publisher, Dr. Paul Fisher, Concepts Senior Evaluator and formerly Professor of Journalism with the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and Nancy Rathbun Scott, Contributing Editor of Writing That Works: The Business Communication Report.
1999 APEX Award:
inMotion was selected from 631 entrants in the "Magazines & Journals" category to receive a 1999 Award for Publication Excellence (APEX). A total of 4,876 entries were received in 93 individual categories in the 11th annual APEX competition.
APEX '99 awards were based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry - in the opinion of the judges - in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
Competition was very stiff for this year's entries and overall, this year's entries displayed an exceptional level of quality, said the APEX judges, who had the exceptionally difficult talk of selecting the award-winning entries from the most promising publications entered.
The panel of judges included John De Lellis, Communications Concepts editor and publisher; Dr. Paul Fisher, Concepts senior evaluator and formerly professor of journalism with the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and Nancy Rathbun Scott, contributing editor of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report.
Congratulations to all who have contributed to inMotion magazine, past and present, and we look forward to its continued improvement in the years to come.
1999 Top Ten:
ACA was awarded an "Honorable Mention" in the 1999 Top Ten Awards featured in Amputee Online Magazine, published by Ian Gregson in Canada.
The AOLM Top Ten Awards are an annual award program designed to highlight new and innovative services, products and support resources for amputees.
The popularity of the AOLM award program has increased dramatically over the years. Approximately 200 votes were cast by visitors of the AOLM web pages (http://amputee-online.com) and members of the O&P and SJU amputee mailing lists.
