They made the announcement today:

Veteran Northwestern University journalism professor Abe Peck - a magazine specialist whose journalistic roots were in the "alternative press" of the 1960s and 1970s - was chosen for the American Society of Business Publications' Lifetime Achievement Award.

Peck will take the award into retirement this year after 28 years at Northwestern's Medill School. He is currently the Chair of Journalism & Cross-Media Storytelling at Medill; holds both the Helen Gurley Brown professor and its Theodore R. and Annie Laurie Sills professorship; and is deeply involved with the prestigious Media Marketing Center.