National Magazine Award Noms: New Yorker Nabs 12
For magazine editors, the ASME awards are their Oscars. Every self-respecting editor-in-chief, from Los Angeles Magazine's Kit Rachlis to Adam Moss of New York Magazine, wants to land as many noms as possible. The happiest editor in the world today is New Yorker's David Remnick, who gorged out with twelve.
Congrats to EW's Stephen King, nommed for his essay on J.K. Rowling. And to film critics Tom Carson (GQ) and David Edelstein (New York). And to my former Premiere Magazine editor Jim Meigs for his three noms for Popular Mechanics, including excellence in the 1-2 million circ category. That's a major turnaround for the once old-fashioned title, now replete with slick features and a hip online presence.
Here's Portfolio, the ASME site and Gawker, which created the snazzy graphic above.
The full list of nominees is on the jump:
* The New Yorker leads the list of 128 finalists with a total of 12 nominations.
* Twenty-six other titles received multiple nominations: New York (9), Vanity Fair (6), GQ (5), National Geographic (5), The Atlantic (3), Popular Mechanics (3), T, The New York Times Style Magazine (3), The Virginia Quarterly Review (3), Wired (3), Aperture (2), BusinessWeek (2), Domino (2), The Economist (2), Field & Stream (2), Good (2), Gourmet (2), Harper’s Magazine (2), Martha Stewart Living (2), Men’s Health (2), Mother Jones (2), The Nation (2), The New York Times Magazine (2), People (2), O, The Oprah Magazine (2), Slate (2) and W (2).
* Twenty-two of the finalists are based in cities outside of New York (Athens, GA; Atlanta, GA; Boulder, CO; Charlottesville, VA; Chicago, IL; Decatur, GA; Denver, CO; Emmaus, PA; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Northampton, MA; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC; West Hollywood, CA).
* The continuing impact of the war in Iraq in all facets of life—from tales of mercenary soldiers and analysis of administration statements to the plight of returning veterans.
* Surviving unknown disasters, as demonstrated in essays and articles in publications as diverse as Popular Mechanics and O, The Oprah Magazine.
* First-time finalists include Babble, Bloomberg Markets, Budget Travel, Chow, Condé Nast Portfolio, Domino, Good, The New York Times Magazine, Paste, Play:The New York Times Sports Magazine, Radar, and T, The New York Times Style Magazine.
* Several traditional print categories (Reporting, Public Interest, Feature Writing, Profile Writing, Essays, Reviews and Criticism, Columns and Commentary, and Fiction) were opened to include articles published online only.
The awards honor print and online magazines that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative editorial techniques, journalistic enterprise, and imaginative design. Established in 1966, the National Magazine Awards is the preeminent program in the magazine industry to honor editorial excellence. ASME presents the awards program in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Barnes & Noble is the exclusive sponsor of the awards. There will be a reading of winning and finalist articles at a Barnes & Noble location in Manhattan in early May.
The categories and finalists are:
GENERAL EXCELLENCE: Recognizes overall excellence in magazines in six circulation categories. The award honors the effectiveness with which writing, reporting, editing and design all come together to command readers’ attention and fulfill the magazine’s unique editorial mission.
Circulation under 100,000
Aperture, The Georgia Review, Metropolis, Print, The Virginia Quarterly Review
Circulation 100,000 - 250,000
Foreign Policy, Mother Jones, Paste, Philadelphia Magazine, Radar
Circulation 250,000 - 500,000
Backpacker, Cookie, New York Magazine, W, Wondertime
Circulation 500,000 – 1,000,000
Budget Travel, The Economist, GQ, National Geographic Adventure, Wired
Circulation 1,000,000 – 2,000,000
Men’s Health, The New Yorker, Play, The New York Times Sports Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Vanity Fair
Circulation over 2,000,000
Glamour, Martha Stewart Living, National Geographic, People, Time
PERSONAL SERVICE: This category recognizes excellence in service journalism. The advice or instruction presented should help readers improve the quality of their personal lives.
Field & Stream, Good Housekeeping, O, The Oprah Magazine, Popular Mechanics (two nominations)
LEISURE INTERESTS: This category recognizes excellent service journalism about leisure-time pursuits. The practical advice or instruction presented should help readers enjoy hobbies or other recreational interests.
Domino, Field & Stream, Men’s Health, New York Magazine, Time Out Chicago
REPORTING: This category recognizes excellence in reporting. It honors the enterprise, exclusive reporting and intelligent analysis that a magazine exhibits in covering an event, a situation or a problem of contemporary interest and significance.
National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker (two nominations), Vanity Fair
PUBLIC INTEREST: This category recognizes journalism that sheds new light on an issue of public importance and has the potential to affect national or local debate or policy.
5280, Bloomberg Markets, BusinessWeek, The Nation, The New Yorker
FEATURE WRITING: This category recognizes excellence in feature writing. The award honors the stylishness, flair and originality with which the author treats his or her subject.
Atlanta Magazine, GQ, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair
PROFILE WRITING: This category recognizes excellence in profile writing. The award honors the vividness and perceptiveness with which the writer brings his or her subject to life.
The Atlantic, Los Angeles Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair
ESSAYS: This category recognizes excellence in essay writing on topics ranging from the personal to the political. Whatever the subject, the award honors the author’s eloquence, perspective, fresh thinking and unique voice.
The Atlantic, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Harper’s Magazine, New Letters, The New Yorker
COLUMNS and COMMENTARY: This category recognizes excellence in short-form political, social, economic or humorous commentary. The award honors the eloquence, force of argument and succinctness with which the writer presents his or her views.
Inc., New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Slate
REVIEWS and CRITICISM: This category recognizes excellence in criticism of art, books, movies, television, theater, music, dance, food, dining, fashion, products and the like. The award honors the knowledge, persuasiveness and original voice that the critic brings to his or her reviews.
The Atlantic, GQ, The Nation, New York Magazine, The New Yorker
MAGAZINE SECTION: This category recognizes the excellence of a regular department or editorial section of a magazine, either front- or back-of-book, and composed of a variety of elements, both text and visual. The award honors the section’s voice, originality, and unified design and packaging.
Condé Nast Portfolio, Esquire, Good, O, The Oprah Magazine, Wired
SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE: This category recognizes magazines that have devoted an issue to an in-depth examination of one topic. The award honors the ambition, comprehensiveness and imagination with which a magazine treats its subject.
Departures, Domino, Gourmet, IEEE Spectrum, The Virginia Quarterly Review
DESIGN: This category recognizes excellence in magazine design. The award honors the effectiveness of overall design, artwork, graphics and typography in enhancing a magazine’s unique mission and personality.
Good, GQ, New York Magazine, T, The New York Times Style Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired
PHOTOGRAPHY: This category recognizes excellence in magazine photography. The award honors the effectiveness of photography, photojournalism and photo illustration in enhancing a magazine’s unique mission and personality.
Gourmet, GQ, Martha Stewart Living, National Geographic, New York Magazine, W
PHOTOJOURNALISM: This category recognizes the informative photographic documentation of an event or subject in real-time.
Aperture, Mother Jones, National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Virginia Quarterly Review
PHOTO PORTFOLIO: This category honors creative photography and photo illustration (including portraiture or specially produced layouts on fashion, food, decorating, travel, design, the arts, etc.).
New York Magazine, Newsweek, T, The New York Times Style Magazine (two nominations),
Vanity Fair
FICTION: This category recognizes excellence in magazine fiction writing. The award honors the quality of a publication’s literary selections.
Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review,
Zoetrope: All-Story
GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE: This category recognizes outstanding magazine websites, as well as online-only magazines that feature original content. The award honors sites that convey a distinct editorial identity and create a unique magazine environment on the Web.
Babble.com, Chow.com, NewYorker.com, Runners World.com, Slate.com
PERSONAL SERVICE ONLINE: Previously known as Interactive Service, this category recognizes an outstanding service feature on the web. It honors a site’s creative use of multimedia technology, user involvement and community tools, and/or exceptional work in the blog form.
BusinessWeek.com, NYmag.com, People.com, Self.com, SI.com
INTERACTIVE FEATURE: This category recognizes an outstanding interactive section of the website, featuring news, entertainment, and other subjects that do not offer practical instruction or advice. It honors a site’s creative use of multimedia technology, user involvement and community tools, and/or exceptional work in the blog form.
Bicycling.com, Economist.com, ESPN.com, Essence.com, National Geographic Online
"Congrats to EW's Stephen King, nommed for his essay on J.K. Rowling."
Agreed. I absolutely adored this article. It was a great read, especially since King showed interest in the final Potter book early on, long before its publication. Most should remember his plea to Rowling asking the author to not kill her title character.
Posted by: Ryan@CanMag | March 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Congrats to EW's Stephen King, nommed for his essay on J.K. Rowling.
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