International Automotive Media Awards
A trio of articles from the Consumer Guide website won awards in an international competition to recognize achievement in automotive media. The awards were announced at the 18th International Automotive Media Awards (IAMA) program, held June 23 at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan.

In the field of business coverage, Consumer Guide Associate Publisher Tom Appel earned an IAMA gold medal for an article entitled “Three Reasons to Feel Good About American Automakers,“ which included interviews with key executives from U.S. firms. From the road test category, Online Managing Editor Jennifer Geiger collected a silver medal for “2009 Audi Q7 Diesel: Midwest Misadventures.” CG Managing Editor Rick Cotta garnered a bronze award in the new-model-introduction group with “Deep Drive: Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé.”    

Read the Winning Articles
Gold: Three Reasons to Feel Good about American Automakers

Silver: 2009 Audi Q7 Diesel: Midwest Misadventures

Bronze: Deep Drive: Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupé
Judging of entries for this year’s IAMA honors was conducted among works presented during calendar-year 2008. The competition recognizes work done in print, online, video, radio, and public relations or marketing campaigns. Gold, silver, and bronze “foundation” awards are the result of peer judging against an absolute 100-point standard. The IAMA program is administered by the International Society for Vehicle Preservation, based in Tucson, Arizona.

Print publications produced by Consumer Guide’s parent company, Publications International, Ltd., also won IAMA medals. Cars of the 1940s, by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide, won gold in the book design category. The bimonthly automotive-history magazine Collectible Automobile took silver medals for overall single issue (February 2008) and for the general-history article “That Shrinking Feeling: How and Why GM Downsized for 1977,” by freelance author Gary Witzenburg, which appeared in the April 2008 issue.    

06.27.2009