An Award for BJT's Editor

Business Jet Traveler editor Jeff Burger has won the 2010 Aviation Journalism Award from the National Air Transportation Association. Burger–who accepted the award at the association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 6–said it “really recognizes the publication. It’s a team effort, and what a team we’ve got! Our editorial and production staffs are first-rate and so are our freelance contributors.” Frequent BJT contributor Matt Thurber won the same award in 2008.

Burger joined Business Jet Traveler in early 2004, a few months after the publication's launch. Besides editing the magazine, he writes its “Inside Fractionals” column and has conducted its interviews with such people as Sir Richard Branson, James Carville, Suze Orman, David Neeleman and F. Lee Bailey. He helped to oversee BJT’s redesign and its introduction of an annual Buyers’ Guide issue, which is now in its fourth year; he also conceived last year’s popular special issue on The Bizav Advantage. During his years with the magazine, it has won one bronze and two silver awards in the prestigious Folio: Editorial Awards in the Best Transportation/Travel Magazine category. Articles edited by Burger have also won national and regional awards.

Before coming to BJT, Burger spent 14 years at Medical Economics, the nation’s leading business magazine for doctors, where he served on the editorial board and was financial editor and director of special projects. He has been editor of several publications, including Phoenix Magazine in Arizona, and has been a consulting editor at Time Inc. His articles have appeared in more than 75 magazines and newspapers, among them The Los Angeles Times, Barron’s, Reader’s Digest, Gentlemen’s Quarterly and Family Circle.