The New Yorker, natch, leads U.S. magazine awards nominee list

The New Yorker once again leads the pack with a total of 10 nominations, including for general excellence, reporting and feature writing in the American Society of Magazine Editors' (ASME)awards, announced on Wednesday. Close behind was GQ, with 8 nominations, the most that magazine has ever received in a single year.

For general excellence online:

• 1 million or more average monthly visitors: BusinessWeek.com; Chow.com; National Geographic Magazine Online (ngm.com); New York Magazine Online (nymag.com); Time.com
• Less than 1 million average monthly visitors: Backpacker.com; MotherJones.com; Parenting.com; RunnersWorld.com; Triple Canopy (www.canopycanopycanopy.com)

The winners in the various categories will be announced at a gala on April 30 at Frederick P.Rose Hall in Jazz at Lincoln Center.

In the general excellence category for print, the nominees are:

• Circulation under 100,000: The American Scholar; Aperture; Bidoun; Print; The Virginia Quarterly Review
• Circulation 100,000 - 250,000: Foreign Policy; Los Angeles Magazine; Mother Jones; Paste; Time Out New York
• Circulation 250,000 - 500,000: The Atlantic; Backpacker; New York; Texas Monthly; W
• Circulation 500,000 1,000,000: The Economist; Fast Company; GQ; Runner’s World; Wired
• Circulation 1,000,000 2,000,000:Bon Appétit; Field & Stream; The New Yorker; Popular Science; Vogue
• Circulation over 2,000,000: Martha Stewart Living; National Geographic; Reader’s Digest; Real Simple; Time

Read the full nominees' list.