Deborah Whistler was recently named Special Projects Editor for Fleet Owner magazine, 
the industry’s leading fleet business publication.
She was formerly Chief Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine and and Editorial
Director of all Newport media.
Her journalistic strength throughout her career has been to target key industry issues
and produce blockbuster editorial features that help readers solve problems. Such
editorial enterprise has resulted in 23 Jesse H. Neal Awards (the Pulitzer Prize of business press), 12 Neal Certificates of Merit, two Grand Neal Awards ( the best of all national business press editorial each year) and many other awards in other national and regional journalism competitions.
Whistler won the American Business Media’s 2007 Crain Award - the highest career journalism honor among U.S. business media. Only one Crain Award is given each year, with the competition judged by a panel of American Business Media journalists. The winner is selected for outstanding career contributions to the business press. Whistler is only the third woman to win the Crain prize in 40 years.
Recommended by media trade associations and peers, and selected by Crains BtoB Media Business magazine editors and reporters, Whistler was named a 2005 Top Innovative Editor of business magazines.
For years an advocate of improving trucking’s public image, Whistler has served on the American Trucking Association and Truckload Carriers Association Image Committees and on the boards of directors of Trucker Buddy International She is a founding board member of Women in Trucking.
In 1997 she founded TruckerFest, honoring America’s truck drivers. She also founded Truckers for Wildlife to support a national non-profit organization that rescues and rehabilitates wild animals that people have tried to domesticate.
Whistler also serves on the board of directors of the Scholarship Committee and has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the organization.
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