The National Magazine Awards are a series of US awards that honor excellence in the magazine industry. They are administered by the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. The awards have been presented annually since 1966.[1]
They are generally considered the highest award in the magazine industry; in the magazine world, they are roughly equivalent to the Pulitzer Prizes (which are far more widely known in the popular culture, but do not include a magazine category).[2][3]
Recipients of awards are selected in a two-step procedure: First, entries are reviewed by a judging panel, which recommends a group of finalists; then, a second panel of judges chooses one winner in each category. Categories include General Excellence, Personal Service, Leisure Interests, Reporting, Public Interest, Feature Writing, Profile Writing, Essays, Columns and Commentary, Reviews and Criticism, Magazine Section, Single-Topic Issue, Design, Photography, Photojournalism, Photo Portfolio, Fiction, General Excellence Online, Personal Service Online, and Interactive Feature.
Winners in each of the categories are awarded an "Ellie." It is a copper-colored stabile by Alexander Calder, resembling an elephant. The National Magazine Awards web site has a searchable database of all the winners and Top Five finalists.
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A sample of three categories. See the website for full list of winners.
| YEAR | CIRCULATION | EDITOR | MAGAZINE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | (over 2,000,000 circulation) | Peggy Northrop | Reader's Digest |
| 2009 | (1,000,000 to 2,000,000 circulation) | Anthony Licata | Field & Stream |
| 2009 | (500,000 to 1,000,000 circulation) | Chris Anderson | Wired |
| 2009 | (250,000 to 500,000 circulation) | Evan Smith | Texas Monthly |
| 2009 | (100,000 to 250,000 circulation) | Moisés Naím | Foreign Policy |
| 2009 | (under 100,000 circulation) | Joyce Rutter Kaye | Print (magazine) |
| DATE | NAME | ARTICLE | MAGAZINE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Scott Horton | "The Guantanamo 'Suicides'" | Harper's Magazine |
| 2009 | Dexter Filkins | "Right at the Edge" | The New York Times Magazine |
| 2008 | Peter Hessler | "China's Instant Cities" | National Geographic |
| 2007 | C.J. Chivers | "The School" | Esquire |
| 2006 | James Bamford | "Man Who Sold the War" | Rolling Stone |
| 2005 | Samantha Power | "Dying in Darfur" | The New Yorker |
| 2004 | Evan Wright | "The Killer Elite" | Rolling Stone |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Goldberg | "In the Party of God" | The New Yorker |
| 2002 | William Langewiesche | "Crash of Egypt Air 990" | Atlantic Monthly |
| 2001 | Sean Flynn | "The Perfect Fire" | Esquire |
| 2000 | Janine di Giovanni, Sebastian Junger | "Madness Visible," "Forensics of War" | Vanity Fair |
| 1999 | Michael Isikoff, Evan Thomas | "Clinton and the Intern" | Newsweek |
| 1998 | John Colapinto | "True Story of John/Joan" | Rolling Stone |
| 1997 | Jon Krakauer | "Into Thin Air" | Outside |
| 1996 | Connie Bruck | "Politics of Perception" | The New Yorker |
| 1995 | Eric Schlosser | "Reefer Madness" | Atlantic Monthly |
| 1994 | Lawrence Wright | "Remembering Satan" | The New Yorker |
| 1993 | Glenn Zorpette, John A. Adam | "Iraq and the Bomb," "Halting Proliferation" | IEEE Spectrum |
| 1992 | Michael Kelly | "Highway to Hell" | The New Republic |
| 1991 | Connie Bruck | "Deal of the Year" | The New Yorker |
| 1990 | Mark Danner | "Beyond the Mountains" | The New Yorker |
| Date | Name | Article | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Ben Ehrenreich | "The End" | Los Angeles |
| 2010 | Skip Hollandsworth | "Still Life" | Texas Monthly |
| 2009 | Chris Jones | "The Things That Carried Him" | Esquire |
| 2008 | Paige Williams | "You Have Thousands of Angels Around You" | Atlanta |
| 2007 | Andrew Corsello | "The Other Side of Hate" | GQ |
| 2006 | Priscilla Long | "Genome Tome" | The American Scholar |
| 2005 | Chris Jones | "Home" | Esquire |
| 2004 | Katherine Boo | "The Marriage Cure" | The New Yorker |
| 2003 | John Jeremiah Sullivan | "Horseman, Pass By" | Harper's Magazine |
| 2002 | Penny Wolfson | "Moonrise" | The Atlantic |
| 2001 | David Foster Wallace | "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub" | "Rolling Stone" |
| 2000 | Gary Smith | "Moment of Truth" | "Sports Illustrated" |
| 1999 | Clara Claiborne | "Exiting Nirvana" | "The American Scholar" |
| 1998 | Michael Paterniti | "Driving Mr. Albert" | "Harper's Magazine" |
| 1997 | Gary Smith | "Crime and Punishment" | "Sports Illustrated" |
| 1996 | Tom Junod | "The Rapist Says He's Sorry" | "GQ" |
| 1995 | Tom Junod | "The Abortionist" | "GQ" |
| 1994 | Darcy Frey | "The Last Shot" | "Harper's Magazine" |
| Date | Name | Article | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | John Jeremiah Sullivan | "Mr. Lytle: An Essay" | The Paris Review |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Kolbert | "Green Like Me" (Aug. 31), "Flesh of Your Flesh" (Nov. 9), "Hosed" (Nov. 16) | The New Yorker |
| 2009 | James Wood | "Say What?" (Apr. 7), "The Homecoming" (Sep. 8), "Wounder and Wounded" (Dec. 1) | The New Yorker |
| 2008 | Caitlin Flanagan | "The Sanguine Sex" (May), "Babes in the Woods" (Jul./Aug.), "No Girlfriend of Mine" (Nov.) | The Atlantic Monthly |
| 2007 | Stuart Klawans | "Down These Mean Streets" (Oct. 23), "The Tracks of My Tears" (Nov. 20), "Coming to America!" (Dec. 4) | The Nation |
| 2006 | Wyatt Mason | "Make it Newish" (May), "A World Unto Himself" (Jul.), "White Knees" (Oct.) | Harper's Magazine |
| 2005 | Adam Gopnik | "Times Regained" (Mar. 22), "The Big One" (Aug. 23), "Will Power" (Sep. 13) | The New Yorker |
| 2004 | Tom Carson | "Increasingly Berserk Developments" (Jan.), "Back to the Terminator" (Aug.), "Mr. Uncongeniality" (Dec.) | Esquire |
| 2003 | James Wolcott | "Terror on the Dotted Line" (Jan.), "U.S. Confidential" (June), "The Penance of Pirates" (Oct.) | Vanity Fair |
| 2002 | Lee Siegel | "Seize the Day" (Mar.), "The Second Coming of Richard Yates" (July), "Cold Verities" (Oct.) | Harper's Magazine |
| 2001 | Anthony Lane | "The Maria Problem" (Feb. 14), "The Eye of the Land" (Mar. 13), "The Light Side of the Moon" (Apr. 10) | The New Yorker |
| 2000 | Tom Carson | "And the Leni Riefenstahl Award for Rabid Nationalism Goes to…" (March), "The Gospel According to Homer" (July), "The Last Great Movie of the Century" (Oct.) | Esquire |