Long Island Hospitality Ball 2018

Long Island Hospitality Ball 2018 ED LOWE MEDIA AWARD NADA MARJANOVICH In choosing the 2018 “Ed Lowe Media Award” recipient, we decided for the first time to go a different route. Our first 2 awards were given to a famous on-air personality and a legendary food critic. This was the perfect year to jump over to the entrepreneurial side of the media.

I first met Nada Marjanovich in 2005 at my then Garden City Hotel office as she was kicking off PULSE Magazine. Within 5 minutes I knew this wasn’t going to be the same old start-up magazine that never makes it. Nada had a vision and a goal to become Long Island’s premiere full color magazine. This was a very bold move considering where print media was going.

She knew what she wanted and definitely knew what she didn’t want to be. 13 years and 13 million copies later, we are honoring Nada and her magazine as the dream was fulfilled. New York media has always viewed Long Island as the Manhattan stepchild. Now, finally the Island has an A-List magazine of its own. Taking a quote from Nada’s 10th Anniversary edition, “We are a collection of people that see the Island for what it could be; an organic, ever- evolving place defying any narrow definition. We live on the south side of the clock, always pushing a deadline. We are running through the world with our mouths open hoping to drink it all in.”

PULSE Magazine has had some of the most impressive covers and interviews Long Island has ever seen. The first cover back in 2005 featured the Jones Beach Pencil. As the 13th Anniversary approaches this July, Nada can boast Alicia Keys, Martin Scorsese, Beth Stern, John McEnroe, Santana, Russell Simmons, Natalie Portman and Andrew Cuomo, just to name a few. If you are thinking the magazine became snobbish…FORGET IT! In continued support of the Long Island hospitality industry Nada chose 4 local lifers in the biz to grace the cover of the November 2011 “Night Hawks” edition. PULSE has also become well known in the dining world for featuring not only world-famous chefs but some home grown culinary talent.

PULSE has shown us many wonderful “Stay-cations” from North to South shore, Fire Island and the Hamptons, but the magazine doesn’t stop there as Nada has taken us around the world with some of the most exciting resort and vacation reviews.

Personally, Nada Marjanovich is a pianist, equestrian, skier and art hound. She is fluent in 4 languages, studied at the John Jay College of Criminal Science and earned a B.A. from Stony Brook University with Phi Beta Kappa honors.

The Executive Board of the Long Island Hospitality Ball thanks Nada Marjanovich for taking that great leap in 2005 so that we can say CONGRATULATIONS in 2018. Ed Lowe would be very proud.

From Brian Rosenberg- LIHB Executive Committee Board Member and Public Relations Director