The award recognizes and publicly commends the editor and publication that demonstrate the most lucid, forthright and effective presentation of ideas advancing the objectives of electric cooperatives and the issues that affect them and their consumer-owners. Accepting the award from English were Emily Born Schilling, editor of Electric Consumer, and Senior Editor Richard G. Biever, both with the Indiana Statewide Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, Inc., Indianapolis, which publishes Electric Consumer for 27 subscribing electric cooperatives within the state. We are pleased to recognize Electric Consumer and Emily Born Schilling and Richard Biever, who strive to give co-op readers in Indiana a publication that serves and involves them every month. Balancing issue-oriented articles with lifestyle, community outreach and promotion material was an official goal, according to the editors submission to the Haggard Award competition, and the judges agreed. They commended Electric Consumer for never forgetting its audience and pursuing its mission as the publication of Indiana s electric cooperative community.
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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.