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NEW YORK, NY (April 5, 2011)—Sid Holt, Chief Executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), today announced the finalists for the 2011 National Magazine Awards. Known as the Ellies—for the Alexander Calder stabile “Elephant,” a reproduction of which is given to each award winner—the National Magazine Awards will be presented on Monday, May 9, in New York City.
“This was an extraordinary year for magazines,” said Mr. Holt. “The 2011 finalists include Michael Hastings’ ‘The Runaway General,’ which led to the resignation of Stanley McChrystal, and Jane Mayer’s ‘Covert Operations,’ on the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch—stories that made news while covering the news. With pieces on the health-care crisis, the failure of the criminal justice system, the impact of autism and conflicts around the globe, all of this year’s nominees underscore the power of magazine journalism.”
The 2011 National Magazine Awards will also include the presentation of the Creative Excellence Award to Tom Wolfe, who as a founder of the New Journalism and the author of bestsellers like The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, both of which originated as magazine series, is regarded as one of the most influential magazine journalists of our time. To see the announcement of the award, click here.
The 2011 National Magazine Awards mark the first time that the American Society of Magazine Editors will host a dinner to present the awards. To attend the 2011 National Magazine Awards Annual Gala at 583 Park Avenue in New York City, click here.
The New Yorker Leads 2011 Finalists
The 2011 National Magazine Award finalists include 54 titles. Twenty magazines received multiple nominations—led by The New Yorker with 9—and 6 magazines were nominated for the first time.
Aside from The New Yorker, magazines receiving multiple nominations this year are The Atlantic (4 nominations), Esquire (3), GQ (5), Harper’s Magazine (2), Los Angeles (3), Martha Stewart Living (2), Men’s Journal (2), National Geographic (4), New York (6), The New York Times Magazine (6), The Paris Review (2), Real Simple (3), Scientific American (2), Texas Monthly (2), TIME (2), Vanity Fair (2), Virginia Quarterly Review (6), W (3) and Wired (3). The 6 never-before-nominated titles are Cooking Light, House Beautiful, Lapham’s Quarterly, OnEarth, The Sun and Women’s Health.
Group publishers with multiple nominations include Bloomberg L.P. (2 for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets); Conde Nast (25 for Conde Nast Traveler, Golf Digest, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W and Wired); Emmis Communications (5 for Los Angeles and Texas Monthly); Hearst Magazines (8 for Esquire; Good Housekeeping; House Beautiful; Marie Claire; O, The Oprah Magazine and Popular Mechanics); Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (2 for Martha Stewart Living); National Geographic Society (4 for National Geographic); Rodale (3 for Men’s Health, Runner’s World and Women’s Health); Time Inc. (9 for Cooking Light, Essence, Fortune, People, Real Simple and TIME); and Wenner Media (3 for Men’s Journal and Rolling Stone).
Only the finalists in the 21 National Magazine Award categories honoring print magazines are being announced today. Finalists in the Magazine of the Year category, honoring excellence both in print and on digital platforms, will be announced next Tuesday, April 12; the Magazine of the Year finalists will also be honored at the May 9 dinner. Finalists and winners in the 12 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media categories were announced earlier this year; to see a list of the Digital Ellie honorees, click here.
The preeminent awards for magazine journalism in the United States, the National Magazine Awards were established in 1966 and are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Nearly 270 publications entered the National Magazine Awards this year, submitting 1,673 entries. The judges included 359 magazine journalists and journalism educators. The finalist this year with the largest print circulation (22 million) is AARP The Magazine; the finalist with the smallest (3,000) is The Antioch Review.
To see descriptions of the categories, click here. To see an extended list of the finalists, including article titles, names of writers and photographers and links to content, click here.
The magazines nominated for 2011 National Magazine Awards are:
GENERAL EXCELLENCE, PRINT
News, Sports and Entertainment MagazinesHonors large-circulation weeklies, biweeklies and general-interest monthliesFast Company; New York; The New Yorker; People; TIME
Literary, Political and Professional MagazinesHonors academic and scholarly publications as well as smaller-circulation general-interest magazinesLapham’s Quarterly; The Paris Review; Poetry; The Sun; Virginia Quarterly ReviewFashion, Service and Lifestyle MagazinesHonors women’s magazines, including health and fitness magazines and family-centric publicationsEssence; Real Simple; Vogue; W; Women’s Health
Food, Travel and Design MagazinesHonors lifestyle magazines for men and women as well as shelter titlesConde Nast Traveler; Garden & Gun; House Beautiful; Martha Stewart Living; Saveur
Finance, Technology and Lifestyle MagazinesHonors men’s magazines as well as business, science and active-interest publicationsBackpacker; Bloomberg Markets; GQ; Popular Mechanics; Scientific American
Special Interest MagazinesHonors magazines serving targeted audiences, including city and regional magazinesAudubon; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Texas Monthly; Time Out New York
DESIGN, PRINTEsquire; Fortune; GQ; New York; Wired
PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINTGQ; Martha Stewart Living; National Geographic; The New York Times Magazine; W
NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHYNational Geographic; The New York Times Magazine (2); TIME; Virginia Quarterly Review
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHYAARP The Magazine; ESPN The Magazine; National Geographic; The New York Times Magazine; W
SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUEBloomberg Businessweek; GQ: National Geographic; New York; Scientific American
MAGAZINE SECTIONEsquire; New York; Real Simple (2); Wired
PERSONAL SERVICEGood Housekeeping; Men’s Health; Men’s Journal; O, The Oprah Magazine; Wired
LEISURE INTERESTSCooking Light; Golf Digest; Los Angeles; Men’s Journal; Runner’s World
PUBLIC INTERESTThe Atlantic; Marie Claire; The New Yorker; OnEarth; Texas Monthly
REPORTINGHarper’s Magazine; The New York Times Magazine; The New Yorker; Rolling Stone; Virginia Quarterly Review
FEATURE WRITINGThe Atlantic; GQ; Los Angeles; Mother Jones; The New Yorker
PROFILE WRITINGThe Atlantic; Harper’s Magazine; New York; The New York Times Magazine; The New Yorker
ESSAYS & CRITICISMThe American Scholar; The Antioch Review; The New Yorker; The Paris Review; Virginia Quarterly Review
COLUMNS & COMMENTARYEsquire; New York; The New Yorker; Vanity Fair (2)
FICTIONThe Atlantic; The New Yorker (2); Virginia Quarterly Review (2)
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