STC Honored in APEX 2003 Awards

Dear Society and chapter leaders,

STC took four awards in this year's APEX 2003 publications competition. Russ
Bombardieri, STC's webmaster, won a Grand Award for STC's Web site in the
"Web and Intranet Sites" category; George F. Hayhoe, editor of Technical
Communication, earned Awards of Excellence in the subcategories "Magazines and Journals-Online and Electronic" and "Columns and Editorials"; and Intercom received an Award of Excellence in the "Magazines and
Journals-Printed Four Color" subcategory.

The APEX awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial
content, and overall communication effectiveness. APEX 2003 received close
to 5,000 total entries in eleven major categories; of these, 100 (about 2
percent) won Grand Awards, and 1,541 (about 31 percent) won Awards of
Excellence.

The APEX competition has been conducted annually since 1989 by
Communications Concepts, Inc., the Springfield, Virginia, publisher of
Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report.