Pedersen’s POV Column Wins Neal Award for Best Commentary

Pedersen’s POV has been called many things. It's been called thought-provoking. It’s even been called controversial. Now the opinion series, written by MD+DI Senior Editor Amanda Pedersen, can be called something else – an award-winning column.

MD+DI won a Jesse H Neal Award for Best Commentary for a publication with brand revenue less than $3 million, at an awards ceremony April 21 in New York. Pedersen, the creator, and sole contributor of Pedersen’s POV, attended the ceremony.

The Neal Awards celebrate excellence in business-to-business journalism and are hosted by the Software & Information Industry Association, a professional organization dedicated to connecting data, financial information, education technology, specialized content, and publishing companies.

“I am so fortunate to work for an organization that values and champions my work enough to put it up for this kind of peer recognition,” Pedersen said. “It really wasn’t until I came to work for Informa that I understood what good leadership looks and feels like. I wouldn’t have received this honor if it weren’t for the support of my colleagues and management team. I’d especially like to thank Shana Leonard, Jamie Hartford, and of course, Omar Ford, my editor-in-chief and longtime colleague. I think the three of them believed in the potential of Pedersen’s POV long before I did."

Never one to shy away from controversy (in some cases, she embraces it), Pedersen crafted POV to tackle some of the most sensitive and topical issues in the medtech industry. Here is a sample of Pedersen’s POV:

Sex Doesn't Sell in Advanced Manufacturing. Period.
Let Em Walk: The Great CEO Resignation of 2022
Your Medtech Project Flopped, Now What?
A Verily Bad Communication Decision