Peck to receive lifetime achievement award

Abe Peck, an eclectic professor, writer, B-to-B editorial consultant was chosen for the American Society of Business Publications’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
Currently Peck is the Chair of Journalism & Cross-Media Storytelling at Northwestern University where he also holds both the Helen Gurley Brown professor and its Theodore R. and Annie Laurie Sills professorship.
In addition to his magazine-related work at the school, Peck has represented business-to-business publications well over the years. He has served as consultant to Advanstar Communications, a large B-to-B publisher, for which he helps lead editorial performance reviews in the U.S. and U.K.
Among the most most memorable stories of his career were studies of author Studs Terkel, a rundown on the drug paraphernalia industry, and among the first national stories introducing a young California bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger as he began to move toward wider career aspirations.
He is also the author of Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press for Pantheon/Citadel, and has edited or contributed to nine other books, some of which touched on the theme of the cultural past.
Peck will receive the award on July 24 in Kansas City, Mo.