The Bruce Report

For Immediate Release

July 26, 2011

(MONCTON) – New Brunswick-based journalist Alec Bruce has won top honours in an international editorial competition. Bruce received the Gold Award in the Regular Column category of the 2011 Tabbie international business press awards. He won for his column “Winner Takes All” in Atlantic Business Magazine (ABM).

This is the second straight year Bruce has won this category for ABM. “Winner Takes All”, published in ABM six times a year, takes a hard look at the challenges Atlantic Canada faces in becoming a more globally competitive place for business, industry, communities and people.

The 2011 Tabbie awards featured nearly 400 entries, with nominations coming from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, New Zealand and South Africa. Judges were once again impressed by the quality of the submissions.

About Alec Bruce

Atlantic Business Magazine Contributing Editor and Moncton Times & Transcript daily public affairs columnist, Alec Bruce is one of Atlantic Canada’s most-read, most-esteemed journalists.

Bruce won two Gold Awards for “Magazine Article” and “Commentary – Any Medium” in the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards, and the Gold Award for “Regular Column” in both the 2011 and 2010 Tabbie international business press awards. In 2009, he won two Silver Awards in the “Magazine Article” and “Business Reporting” categories of the Atlantic Journalism Awards. In 2009, he earned a Top-Ten Honourable Mention for “Feature Writing” in the Tabbie international business press awards. In 2008, he won the Gold Award for “Commentary – Any Medium” in the Atlantic Journalism Awards. In 2007, he won two back-to-back Silver Awards in a single category, “Magazine Article” in the Atlantic Journalism Awards. In 2006, he won the Gold Award for “Commentary” in the Atlantic Journalism Awards. And, in 2006, he was a Top-Ten finalist in the Kenneth R. Wilson National Business Writing Awards competition.

Bruce writes for newspapers, magazines and online publications from his home base in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Contact:

Alec Bruce

Email: avbruce@rogers.com

May 7, 2011 – Alec Bruce, Contributing Editor of Atlantic Business Magazine, won two Golds in the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards for Atlantic Canada’s leading business magazine. The categories were: “Magazine Article” and “Commentary – any medium.” In the former, Bruce wrote about Brad Leblanc, a young Moncton, N.B., entrepreneur who has cornered the market on drive, ambition, vision and youthful achievement as the only man to have brought billionaire philanthropist Richard Branson to Atlantic Canada. In the latter, Bruce expounded on the importance of regional energy cooperation in the aftermath of the failed deal to sell New Brunswick Power to Hydro-Quebec. Check out these and other stories at ABM.

Atlantic Business Magazine wins double GOLD in international competition

(Monday, July 12, 2010) Atlantic Business Magazine is proud to announce that Editor Dawn Chafe (St. John’s, NL) and Contributing Editor Alec Bruce (Moncton, NB) have each won Gold in the 2010 Tabbie international business press awards. It is the only business magazine in Atlantic Canada to have received this distinction.

Editor Dawn Chafe took first place in the Editor’s Column category for “Michael’s Big Fat Fib”, an eloquent and amusing rebuttal to Michael Economides’ anti-green energy presentation at the 2009 NOIA conference. Her award-winning column appeared in the July/August 2009 edition of Atlantic Business Magazine.

Judging comments: “From its headline to the last sentence, this column caught my attention. I thought it was elegantly and intelligently written as well as entertaining. The author made a very persuasive argument to continue the dialogue about alternative energy.”

Contributing Editor Alec Bruce was similarly successful in the Regular Column category. ‘Winner Takes All’ is the title of Bruce’s pithy and intelligent column on competitiveness. In the words of the judges, it’s a must-read element of the publication:

Judging comments: “A well-written, engaging column. The author uses interesting and punchy text and analogies to drive his point home. If I received this magazine, it would likely be the first article I’d turn to.”

To see PDFs of the winning entries, go to: http://www.tabpi.org/2010/2010e.htm

About the Tabbies: The 2010 Tabbie Awards, an international b2b magazine competition, featured nearly 500 entries, with nominations coming from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, New Zealand and South Africa.

About Atlantic Business Magazine: Founded in 1989, Atlantic Business Magazine is an independently owned, bi-monthly glossy publication that covers all areas of business within the four Atlantic provinces. As the region’s highest circulation business magazine, we publish 37,000 copies per issue.

For additional information:

Dawn Chafe, editor, dchafe@atlanticbusinessmagazine.com

To receive a complimentary subscription to Atlantic Canada’s most award-winning business publication, go to: http://www.abmonline.ca/info/subscribe/

Me goodself has been honoured as a finalist in magazine writing in the 2009 Atlantic Journalism Awards: For “Business Reporting” and in another category, “Atlantic Magazine – Best Article”.

I would like to thank the Academy. . .etc.

Seriously, though, Atlantic Business Magazine is just about the best crop of professionals it’s been my pleasure to know over my nearly three decades of scribbling for a living. Fullsome thanks goes to Dawn, Edwina, Hubert, Jason, Tonia, Sharon, et. al.

ABM — where brilliance meets courage!

Moncton journalist Alec Bruce received the Gold Award for Commentary in the 2008 Atlantic Journalism Awards at a gala ceremony on May 2.

He took top honours for his column in Atlantic Business Magazine: “Is Atlantic Canada truly on its own?” (January-February, 2008).

Alec Bruce is a previous AJA recipient, having won the Gold Award for Commentary in 2006, (Here Magazine) and two Silver Awards for Best Magazine Article in 2007 (Atlantic Business Magazine).

For a complete list of Gold and Silver winners in the 2008 Atlantic Journalism Awards, see: http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=1705027408&view=21282-0&Start=0

For Atlantic Business Magazine, see: http://www.atlanticbusinessmagazine.com/