National Magazine Award Finalists Unveiled

More awards! The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has unveiled the 2012 National Magazine Award finalists, and leading the way are two fantastic titles — New York and The New Yorker — each nominated for six Ellies. All those accusing the ASME of having a New York bias please start your bitching now. As for the rest of you, the winners will be announced on May 3, so stay tuned. Also, finalists for the Magazine of The Year will be revealed Thursday. Below is a list of the finalists. Congrats to all. GENERAL EXCELLENCE, PRINT General-Interest Magazines Bloomberg Businessweek; GQ; New York; The New Yorker; Vice Women’s Magazines Glamour; More; O, The Oprah Magazine; Real Simple; W Lifestyle Magazines Bon Appetit; Country Living; Garden & Gun; House Beautiful; Texas Monthly Active- and Special-Interest Magazines The Fader; Field & Stream; Inc.; Men’s Health; Popular Mechanics Thought-Leader Magazines The American Scholar; Aperture; IEEE Spectrum; The New Republic; Virginia Quarterly Review DESIGN Bloomberg Businessweek; GQ; Interview; New York; Wired PHOTOGRAPHY GQ; Interview; National Geographic; Virginia Quarterly Review; Vogue NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY Harper’s Magazine for “Juvenile Injustice,” October Harper’s Magazine for “Uncertain Exodus,” July National Geographic for “Too Young to Wed,” June The New York Times Magazine for “From Zero to 104,” September 4 Time for “Birds of Hope,” January 17 FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY National Geographic for “Taming the Wild,” March The New York Times Magazine for “Touch of Evil,” December 11 Time for “Portraits of Resilience,” September 19 Vogue for “Lady Be Good,” March W for “Planet Tilda,” August SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE Bloomberg Businessweek for “Steve Jobs,” October 10-16 ESPN The Magazine for “NFL Preview: The Vick Issue,” September 5 Garden & Gun for “Southern Food,” October/November New York for “The Encyclopedia of 9/11,” September 5-12 Wired for “Underworld,” February MAGAZINE SECTION Bicycling for “Know/How” Esquire for “Man at His Best” New York for “Strategist” Real Simple for “Food” Wired for “Start” PERSONAL SERVICE Glamour for “The Secret That Kills Four Women a Day,” June Good Housekeeping for “Fractured,” July Real Simple for “Your Holiday-Spending Survival Guide,” November Redbook for “Would You Get a ‘Mommy Tuck’?” April San Francisco for “The New School of Fish,” February LEISURE INTERESTS New York for “The Urbanist’s Guide To . . . ,” April 25 Outdoor Life for “Sniper School,” March Saveur for “Italian American,” December Texas Monthly for “Home Plates,” April Wired for “The Wired Travel Optimizer,” October PUBLIC INTEREST 5280 Magazine for “Direct Fail,” December Harper’s Magazine for “Tiny Little Laws,” February Marie Claire for “The Big Business of Breast Cancer,” October Men’s Health for “The Signature Wound,” November The New Yorker for “The Invisible Army,” June 6 REPORTING The Atlantic for “Our Man in Kandahar,” November Los Angeles for “What Happened to Mitrice Richardson?” September The New Yorker for “The Apostate,” February 14 & 21 The New Yorker for “Getting bin Laden,” August 8 Vanity Fair for “Echoes From a Distant Battlefield,” December FEATURE WRITING Esquire for “Heavenly Father!” October GQ for “The Man Who Sailed His House,” October The New York Times Magazine for “You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!” June 12 The New Yorker for “A Murder Foretold,” April 4 Rolling Stone for “Arms and the Dudes,” March 31 PROFILE WRITINGD Magazine for “He Is Anonymous,” April ESPN The Magazine for “Game of Her Life,” January 10 Men’s Journal for “The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See,” March Rolling Stone for “Santiago’s Brain,” December 8 Sports Illustrated for “Dewayne Dedmon’s Leap of Faith,” November 14 ESSAYS AND CRITICISM Esquire for “The Loading Dock Manifesto,” May GQ for “Too Much Information,” May iPad Edition New York for “Paper Tigers,” May 16 The New Yorker for “The Aquarium,” June 13 & 20 Slate for “The Stutterer: How He Makes His Voice Heard,” February 22 COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY The Atlantic for columns by James Parker Field & Stream for columns by Bill Heavey Los Angeles for reviews by Steve Erickson Time for columns by Joel Stein Vanity Fair for columns by Christopher Hitchens FICTION The Atlantic for “Scars,” Summer 2011 McSweeney’s Quarterly for “Ambition,” April McSweeney’s Quarterly for “The Northeast Kingdom,” August Virginia Quarterly Review for “La Moretta,” Fall Zoetrope: All-Story for “The Hox River Window,” Fall

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