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Deborah Whistler
Deborah Whistler is editor of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine and and editorial director of all Newport Communications media, which includes Heavy Duty Trucking and RoadStar magazines, Truckinginfo.com (daily news online), e-RoadStar.com, Hotline newsletter and two digital magazines, HDT New Product News and IT Quarterly.
Her journalistic strength throughout her career has been to target key industry issues and produce blockbuster editorial features that help readers solve problems. Such editorial enterprise has resulted in 21 Jesse H. Neal Awards (the Pulitzer Prize of business press), 12 Neal Certificates of Merit, and the Grand Neal Award for Whistler and her staff. She has personally won or shared in the Grand Neal, eight Neal Awards, six Certificates, 16 ASBPE Awards (for features, editorials, columns and cover photography), 15 Western Publishers Association Maggie Awards and several FOLIO: Gold Awards.
This year Whistler won the American Business Media's 2007 Crain Award - the highest career journalism honor among U.S. business media. Only one Crain Award is given each year, with the competition judged by a panel of American Business Media journalists. The winner is selected for outstanding career contributions to the business press. Whistler is only the third woman to win the Crain prize in close to 40 years.
Recommended by media trade associations and peers, and selected by Crains BtoB Media Business magazine editors and reporters, Whistler was named a 2005 Top Innovative Editor of business magazines.
For years an advocate of improving trucking's public image, Whistler has served on the American Trucking Associations ? Image Committee and the Board of Trucker Buddy International.
In 1997 she founded TruckerFest, honoring America ?s truck drivers with a big rig parade, a truck beauty contest, free steak dinners, a concert and fireworks in Reno, Nev. She also founded Truckers for Wildlife to support a national non-profit organization that rescues and rehabilitates wild animals that people have tried to domesticate.
Whistler also serves on the Board of Directors and the Scholarship Committee of the Truckload Carriers Association.
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