This publication excels in many areas creating an overall pleasing, readable, well-written communication tool. It is a striking example of how good journalism can be combined with good advocacy to create a winning product. Design is crisp and clean. Photographs are terrific. This magazine ties the entire state of Indiana into a close-knit community of electric cooperative consumers.
Every article makes that connection.
In addition to judging magazine entries for forthrightness, clarity and balance, the Haggard Award competition seeks to encourage raising the standards and professional excellence of statewide publications, to recognize the contribution of statewide publications to the electric cooperative network nationwide, and to encourage publications to strengthen cooperative member education and member relations programs. The award memorializes George W. Haggard, a former statewide editor, statewide manager, and REA official who championed the creation of statewide publications. He was killed in an airplane accident in 1951. Electric cooperative statewide publications are consistently ranked as some of the most widely read consumer publications in the United States. They reach more than 7.2 million households every month in 32 of the 46 states where electric cooperatives are located.