TriStar’s editorial, design, and production teams will travel this week to the 2019 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Columbus, Ohio, to produce Daily Now, the meeting’s official daily newspaper. Daily Now is TriStar’s most awarded print publication, honored 12 times in the last 13 years, including the Gold Award in the Onsite Convention Daily (Print) category in the 2019 Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards.
Each year, the ASAE Annual Meeting showcases best practices in the association industry, from member recruitment and engagement to creating first-class events. This approach extends to Daily Now, which is intended to be a best-in-class publication to show association professionals everything an onsite convention daily can be.
When ASAE first introduced Daily Now at its 2006 meeting, it turned to TriStar for project management, writing, editing, graphic design, and production support. In 2018, the TriStar and ASAE teams created three live dailies for the annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The teams worked in tandem to create a content plan, write advance copy, and develop a schedule of live events to be covered during the meeting. The onsite work included cover photo shoots with some of the meeting’s headlining presenters and live reporting from up to 25 events a day.
Daily Now is designed to capture the energy and excitement of the live meeting with its compelling visual elements and its punchy, conversational articles. Printed overnight on glossy paper, each 40-page issue has the look and feel of a newsstand magazine rather than a typical convention newspaper. Flip through one of the 2018 issues here.
“It’s both an honor and a lot of fun to work on Daily Now each year,” said Cody Holt, TriStar’s Senior Vice President of Operations. “ASAE is an incredible partner and together we’ve had tremendous success with the publication over the years. It’s one of our favorite projects at TriStar because we really get to test how much you can accomplish on an overnight turn. We’re always trying to take the next step and exceed our own lofty standards.”
As we look forward to another year, here’s a look back at the numerous awards Daily Now has won since TriStar and ASAE partnered in 2006.
2007
Society of National Association Publications (SNAP) Awards, Silver Award
APEX Awards for Publication Excellence, Grand Award
2008
Society of National Association Publications (SNAP) Awards, Gold Award
2010
Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards, Gold Award
2011
Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards, Gold Award
2013
Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards, Gold Award
2014
Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards, Gold Award
2016
Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards, Gold Award
APEX Awards for Publication Excellence, Grand Award
2018
Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards, Silver Award
APEX Awards for Publication Excellence, Award of Excellence
2019
Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards, Gold Award
ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership is a membership organization of more than 44,000 association executives and industry partners representing 7,400 organizations. With support of the ASAE Foundation, a separate nonprofit entity, ASAE is the premier source of learning, knowledge, and future-oriented research for the association and nonprofit profession, providing resources, education, ideas, and advocacy to enhance the power and performance of the association and nonprofit community.
TriStar Publishing, Inc., is the leading event media specialist in the healthcare market. The company was founded in 2003 and proudly serves many of the nation’s Top 50 medical meetings, providing consistent revenue growth through award-winning print, digital, and sponsorship products. TriStar’s comprehensive product portfolio includes mobile event apps, daily meeting newspapers, program planners, hotel and perimeter marketing opportunities, custom digital solutions, and exhibit sales.
