For the third straight year, CEO Update has won a Grand Award for its content and design in the APEX Awards competition for communications excellence. Grand Awards recognize outstanding work in each main category; in this instance, print newsletters. This is the first time a publication has been named a Grand Award winner in three consecutive years.

This is the 29th annual competition among communications professionals, who submitted more than 1,300 entries.

In addition, CEO Update reporter Walt Williams received a news writing award for his Dec. 2, 2016, story on associations using student loan payback to recruit and retain staffers.

www.ceoupdate.com also was honored for its website content serving the association community online.
From the judges' comments: "This is one superb newsletter—full of carefully chosen, thoroughly researched and crisply written news, features and shorts."

This year's three awards bring to 19 the number of APEX honors won since 2010, when CEO Update first entered the contest that recognizes best practices in print, web and digital publishing.