The DMA Circulation Hall of Fame Award

The DMA Circulation Hall of Fame Award each year recognizes an individual, elected by his or her peers, who has contributed significantly to the circulation industry. The award is presented at The DMA's annual Circulation Day. This year it was held on February 12, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis, New York, NY.

Now acccepting nominations for the 2009 Hall of Fame Award. Download a nomination form here.

2008 Winner:

Susan M. Allyn, Vice President Circulation Marketing, TV Guide Magazine
Susan Allyn joined TV Guide as Vice President Circulation Marketing in late 2005. She is responsible for guiding the consumer marketing for the new incarnation of TV Guide and overseeing the outsourcing of the in-house fulfillment system to a new vendor.

Prior to joining TV Guide, Susan was Consumer Marketing Director at Emap-Metro. There she worked on ten of the Action Sports Group magazines. She was part of the launch team for Emap and was responsible for the circulation launch of FHM. From 1994 to 1997, Susan was Director of Consumer Marketing for all four Wenner Media titles; Rolling Stone, Us Magazine, Men’s Journal and Family Life. During her tenure, she was responsible for major rate base increases on all four of these Wenner titles.

In addition, Susan has served in a variety of circulation and marketing positions at Time, Inc., Knapp Communications Corp., Weight Watchers Magazine and ABC Publishing.

Susan has been a member of the MPA’s Consumer Marketing Committee since 1983 and served as their 1993 Chairperson. She has served on the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Magazine Director’s Advisory Committee for 19 years.

Past Winners

2007-Liberta Abbondante, Wall Street Journal
Liberta Abbondante, Vice President, Circulation Marketing, for The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, Barron’s and Barron’s Online joined Dow Jones in 2004. In this position, she is responsible for managing the Journal’s 1.7MM daily circulation, 300k Barron’s weekly circulation and nearly 900k+ customers to WSJ.com and Barron’s Online. She has brought strong leadership to the circulation marketing team and provides ongoing direction and professional guidance. Ms. Abbondante, who began her publishing career at Macfadden Publishing, was Vice-President, Circulation, at Forbes Inc. where she was responsible for all subscription and retail sales activities for Forbes magazine, Forbes Global, American Heritage Magazine Group, and the Forbes Investment Newsletters. Just prior to her current station, Liberta was Vice-President, Circulation, at Elsevier where she was responsible for the subscription marketing and sales activities for nearly 300 medical journals.

2006-Susan H. Blattman, U.S. News & World Report
Blattman, who joined U.S. News & World Report in April 2001, is responsible for the 2MM rate base newsweekly, a franchise of Education Guides, and newsstand-only specials. Susan is also a member of the magazine's Executive Committee. Blattman, who began her publishing career at Whitney Communications, was the consumer marketing director at Conde Nast where she was responsible for all subscription and retail sales activities for Bon Appetit, Jane, Mademoiselle, Vanity Fair, and Wired prior to her current position. Susan is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Brooklyn College, and has completed two years of a three-year Ph.D. program in English at The Graduate School of City University of New York. She resides on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her husband Charles and their flat-coated retriever, Shana.

2005-Robert Gursha, Time Inc. Home Entertainment
Rob Gursha is president of Time Inc. Home Entertainment, a division of Time Inc., which publishes books, calendars, and videos for the Time Inc. family of magazines including Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Life, InStyle, Money, and This Old House, as well as outside entities such as Atkins, Guinness World Records, and Essence Magazine. Mr. Gursha is the immediate past Chairperson of The DMA Circulation Council and a faculty member of the Stanford Publishing Course in California. Before joining Time Inc. Home Entertainment, he was vice president, general manager, and consumer marketing director for Sunset Publishing, a West Coast subsidiary of Time Inc. that publishes Sunset magazine and Sunset Books. Mr. Gursha began his publishing career in 1980 at Newsweek Inc., where he held several management positions including director of circulation marketing for Newsweek magazine. He was also vice president of circulation at Capital Cities/ABC for its consumer magazine division.

2004 - Peter Armour
2003 - John Squires
2002 - Michael Loeb
2001 - Chip Block
2000 - Brian Kurtz
1999 - Ed Fones
1998 - Ruth Nelson
1997 - John Klingel
1996 - E. Daniel Capell
1995 - Kathleen O'Shaughnessey
1994 - Gordon Grossman
1993 - Richard Benson
1992 - Jack Shurman
1991 - Robert Riordan
1990 - Robert Teufel
1989 - Henry Cowen
1988 - Wendell Forbes

If you have any questions, please call Susan Zuniga at The DMA, (212) 768-7277 ext. 1568 or szuniga@the-dma.org.