Thursday, May 11, 2006

U.S. National Magazine Awards given out

The guiding principle in magazine awards is "you can't win it if you're not in it"; lots of entries usually result in some nominations, which in turn can result in a couple of wins. But not always, as evidenced by this weeks U.S. National Magazine Awards. The Atlantic Monthly, which had 8 nominations, went home with no awards.

The "Ellies" (named after the elephant shaped "stabile" tropy designed by artist Alexander Calder) were given out Tuesday night at a black tie event at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. The National Magazine Awards are run by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and, unlike the Canadian awards, prizes go to the magazines rather than their contributing "creators" (writers, illustrators and photographers). The full list of award nominees and winners can be found here.

Twenty-two awards were presented to 14 different magazines. Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, Time, Harper's and New York each got two awards.

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