National Magazine Awards
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This article is about the American award. For the Canadian award, see Canadian National Magazine Awards.
| National Magazine Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in the magazine industry |
| Sponsor | American Society of Magazine Editors |
| Date | Annual |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| First awarded | 1966 |
The National Magazine Awards are a series of American awards that honor excellence in the magazine industry. They are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors and administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, New York. 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
- Interactive Feature
Winners in each of the categories are awarded an "Ellie", a copper-colored stabile sculpture by Alexander Calder, resembling an elephant, which is manufactured by New York firm Society Awards. The National Magazine Awards web site has a searchable database of all the winners and top-five finalists.
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Magazine of the Year
| Year | Magazine |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Glamour |
| 2011 | National Geographic |
| 2012 | Time |
| 2013 | New York |
Essays & Criticism
Honors "long-form journalism that presents the opinions of the writer on topics ranging from the personal to the political". Category formerly titled "Essays" 2000–2010.
| Year | Winner(s) | Article(s) | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Michael Herr | "High on War" | Esquire |
| 1979 | Malcolm Cowley | "The View from 80" | Life |
| 1980 | Stephen Jay Gould | For columns on evolutionary biology | Natural History |
| 1981 | Lance Morrow | "Back to Reticence", "Return to Patriotism", "Rediscovering America" | Time |
| 1982 | Holly Bruback | "Designer Dancing", "Balanchine's Tchaikovsky", "Moving Pictures" | The Atlantic |
| 1983 | Steven Brill | "Headnotes" (column) | The American Lawyer |
| 1984 | Charles Krauthammer | "The End of the World", "Crosscurrents: Pseudo-Private Lives", "The Politics of a Plague" | The New Republic |
| 1985 | Howard Carr | "Politics" | Boston |
| 1986 | Robert Wright | "The Information Age: bsohligrimtyhplrylvdb", "The Computer Behind the Curtain", "His Voice's Master" | The Sciences |
| 1987 | David Quammen | "The Same River Twice", "Out of the Noösphere", "Chambers of Memory" | Outside |
| 1988 | L. J. Davis | "The Next Panic" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1989 | Edward Hoagland, William Kittredge, Shelby Steele | "The Urge for an End", "Who Won the West? Apologies to the Water Birds and Ranchhands", "I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1990 | William Styron | "Darkness Visible" | Vanity Fair |
| 1991 | Hans Christian von Baeyer | "The Aesthetic Equation", "A Ripple in Gravity's Lens", "Dead Ringer" | The Sciences |
| 1992 | Katha Pollitt | "Naming and Blaming: Media Goes Wilding in Palm Beach", "Why We Read: Canon to the Right of Me..." | The Nation |
| 1993 | Roger Parloff | "Maybe the Jury Was Right" | The American Lawyer |
| 1994 | Lucy Grealy, Louise Erdrich, David Beers | "Mirrorings", "A Woman's Work", "The Crash of Blue-Sky California" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1995 | Lewis H. Lapham | "Robert Barons Redux", "Morte de Nixon", "Terms of Endearment" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1996 | Simon Schama | "True Grid", "Did He Do It?", "Modes of Seduction" | The New Yorker |
| 1997 | Adam Gopnik | "Escaping Picasso" | The New Yorker |
| 1998 | Cynthia Ozick | "Who Owns Anne Frank?" | The New Yorker |
| 1999 | Emily Hiestand | "Hymn" | The Atlantic |
| 2000 | Brian Hayes | "Clock of Ages" | The Sciences |
| 2001 | Adam Gopnik | "Like a King" | The New Yorker |
| 2002 | Jonathan Franzen | "My Father's Brain" | The New Yorker |
| 2003 | Anne Fadiman (alias Philonoë) | "A Piece of Cotton" | The American Scholar |
| 2004 | Laura Hillenbrand | "A Sudden Illness" | The New Yorker |
| 2005 | David Quammen | "Was Darwin Wrong?" | National Geographic |
| 2006 | Marjorie Williams | "A Matter of Life and Death" | Vanity Fair |
| 2007 | Michael Donohue | "Russell and Mary" | The Georgia Review |
| 2008 | Thomas E. Kennedy | "I Am Joe's Prostate" | New Letters |
| 2009 | Tracy Ross | "The Source of All Things" | Backpacker |
| 2010 | Garrison Keillor | "Top Ten State Fair Joys" | National Geographic |
| 2011 | John Jeremiah Sullivan | "Mister Lytle: An Essay" | The Paris Review |
| 2012 | Wesley Yang | "Paper Tigers" | New York |
Feature Writing
Honors "original, stylish storytelling". Category introduced in 1988.
| Year | Winner | Article | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Paul Hoffman | "The Man Who Loves Only Numbers" | The Atlantic |
| 1989 | Chip Brown | "The Transformation of Johnny Spain" | Esquire |
| 1990 | Katie McCabe | "Like Something the Lord Made" | The Washingtonian |
| 1991 | Joseph L. Galloway | "Vietnam Story" | U.S. News & World Report |
| 1992 | Gary Smith | "Shadow of a Nation" | Sports Illustrated |
| 1993 | Jane Kramer | "Whose Art Is It?" | The New Yorker |
| 1994 | Darcy Frey | "The Last Shot" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1995 | Tom Junod | "The Abortionist" | GQ |
| 1996 | Tom Junod | "The Rapist Says He's Sorry" | GQ |
| 1997 | Gary Smith | "Crime and Punishment" | Sports Illustrated |
| 1998 | Michael Paterniti | "Driving Mr. Albert" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1999 | Clara Claiborne | "Exiting Nirvana" | The American Scholar |
| 2000 | Gary Smith | "Moment of Truth" | Sports Illustrated |
| 2001 | David Foster Wallace | "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub" | Rolling Stone |
| 2002 | Penny Wolfson | "Moonrise" | The Atlantic |
| 2003 | John Jeremiah Sullivan | "Horseman, Pass By" | Harper's Magazine |
| 2004 | Katherine Boo | "The Marriage Cure" | The New Yorker |
| 2005 | Chris Jones | "Home" | Esquire |
| 2006 | Priscilla Long | "Genome Tome" | The American Scholar |
| 2007 | Andrew Corsello | "The Other Side of Hate" | GQ |
| 2008 | Paige Williams | "You Have Thousands of Angels Around You" | Atlanta |
| 2009 | Chris Jones | "The Things That Carried Him" | Esquire |
| 2010 | Skip Hollandsworth | "Still Life" | Texas Monthly |
| 2011 | Ben Ehrenreich | "The End" | Los Angeles |
| 2012 | Luke Dittrich | "Joplin!" | Esquire |
Fiction
Honors the best short stories published in magazines. Previously titled "Fiction and Belles-Lettres" (1974–1976), and "Fiction, Criticism and Belles-Lettres" (1977).
| Year | Author(s) | Story | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Alfred Gillespie, Rick Sterry, Lucille Clifton | "Tonight at 9:36", "Troubadour", "The Magic Mama" | Redbook |
| 1971 | N/A | N/A | Esquire |
| 1972 | William Kotzwinkle | "A Most Incredible Meal" | Mademoiselle |
| 1973 | Grace Paley | "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" | The Atlantic |
| 1974 | Roberta Silman, Harold Brodkey, Larry Woiwode | "A Bad Baby", "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode", "Burial" | The New Yorker |
| 1975 | William Kotzwinkle | "Swimmer in the Secret Sea" | Redbook |
| 1976 | Hortense Spillers | "Isom" | Essence |
| 1977 | Li-li Ch'en | "Peking! Peking!" | Mother Jones |
| 1978 | Peter Taylor, Mavis Gallant, Woody Allen | "In the Miro District", "Potter", "Kugelmass Episode" | The New Yorker |
| 1979 | Richard Yates | "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired" | The Atlantic |
| 1980 | Joy Williams | "The Farm" | Antaeus |
| 1981 | Richard Abrons, Ward Just, Maria Thomas | "Every Day a Visitor", "A Guide to the Geography of Vermont", "Summer Opportunity" | The North American Review |
| 1982 | Nadine Gordimer, Edna O'Brien, John Updike | "A Correspondence Course", "Sister Imelda", "The City" | The New Yorker |
| 1983 | Louise Erdrich, William F. VanWert, Erica Liederman | "Scales", "Putting and Gardening", "The Novitiate" | The North American Review |
| 1984 | Elizabeth Benedict, Roberta Silman, Anne Tyler | "An Eighty Percent Chance", "The Education of Esther Eileen", "Teenage Wasteland" | Seventeen |
| 1985 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andre Dubus III, John Gardner | "The Trail of Your Blood on the Snow", "Forky", "Julius Caesar and the Werewolf" | Playboy |
| 1986 | Lee K. Abbott, Mary Hood, Gary Gildner | "Time and Fear and Somehow Love", "Something Good for Ginnie", "Somewhere Geese are Flying" | The Georgia Review |
| 1987 | Louise Erdrich, Edgar Wideman, Tim O'Brien | "Fleur", "Doc's Story", "The Things They Carried" | Esquire |
| 1988 | Ernst Havemann, Richard Bausch, John Sayles | "A Farm at Raraba", "The Man Who Knew Belle Starr", "The Halfway Diner" | The Atlantic |
| 1989 | Michael Cunningham, Ethan Mordden, Mary Grimm | "White Angel", "I Read My Nephew Stories", "We" | The New Yorker |
| 1990 | Alice Munro, Michael Frayn, Richard Bausch | "Goodness and Mercy", "The Trick of It", "Letter to the Lady of the House" | The New Yorker |
| 1991 | Saul Bellow, Rachel Ingalls, Reynolds Price | "Something to Remember Me By", "Faces of Madness", "Serious Need" | Esquire |
| 1992 | Annick Smith, Amy Bloom, W.D. Wetherell | "It's Come to This", "Silver Water", "The Greatest Living Mayan Speller Extant" | Story |
| 1993 | Alice Munro, Martin Amis, Emily Carter | "A Wilderness Station", "Career Move", "Parachute Silk" | The New Yorker |
| 1994 | Tom Earley, George Saunders, Allan Gurganus | "The Prophet from Jupiter", "The 400-Pound CEO", "The Practical Heart" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1995 | Tim Gautreaux, Alice Schell, Kim Edwards | "Waiting for the Evening News", "Kingdom of the Sun", "The Story of My Life" | Story |
| 1996 | Mark Slouka, George Saunders, Tova Reich | "The Woodcarver's Tale", "Bounty", "The Lost Girl" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1997 | John Updike, Jeffrey Eugenides, Cynthia Ozick | "New York Girl", "Baster", "Save My Child!" | The New Yorker |
| 1998 | Lorrie Moore, Steven Millhauser, Annie Proulx | "People Like THAT?US? Are the Only People Here", "A Visit", "Brokeback Mountain" | The New Yorker |
| 1999 | Richard Russo, Lorrie Moore, Michael Chabon | "The Whore's Child", "Lucky Ducks", "Son of the Wolfman" | Harper's Magazine |
| 2000 | Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, Robert Stone | "The Third and Final Continent", "The Barber's Unhappiness", "Dominion" | The New Yorker |
| 2001 | Rebecca Lee, Robert Olen Butler, Stacey Richter | "Fialta", "Fair Warning", "The Cavemen in the Hedges" | Zoetrope: All-Story |
| 2002 | Alice Munro, E.L. Doctorow, Akhil Sharma | "What is Remembered", "A House on the Plains", "Surrounded by Sleep" | The New Yorker |
| 2003 | Don DeLillo, A.S. Bryant, E.L. Doctorow | "Baader-Meinhof", "The Thing in the Forest", "Jolene: A Life" | The New Yorker |
| 2004 | Arthur Miller, George Saunders, Stephen King | "Presence", "The Red Bow", "Rest Stop" | Esquire |
| 2005 | Nathan Roberts, Aryn Kyle, Robert Olen Butler | "An Incomplete Map of the Northern Polarity", "Foaling Season", "The One in White" | The Atlantic |
| 2006 | Alan Heathcock, Joyce Carol Oates, R.T. Smith | "Peacekeeper", "Smother", "Ina Grove" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| 2007 | T.C. Boyle, Susan Steinberg, Rajesh Parameswaran | "Wild Child", "To Sit, Unmoving", "The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan" | McSweeney's Quarterly |
| 2008 | Daniel Mason, Alice Munro, Steven Millhauser | "Death of the Pugilist", "Fiction", "A Report on Our Recent Troubles" | Harper's Magazine |
| 2009 | Annie Proulx, Aleksandar Hemon | "Them Old Cowboy Songs", "The Noble Truths of Suffering" | The New Yorker |
| 2010 | Anthony Doerr, Wells Tower, Kevin Moffett | "Memory Wall", "Raw Water", "Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events" | McSweeney's Quarterly |
| 2011 | Paul Theroux | "Minor Watt" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| 2012 | Karen Russell | "The Hox River Window" | Zoetrope: All-Story |
Public Interest
Category formerly titled "Public Service" 1970–1986.
| Year | Author(s) | Article | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | William Lambert | "Fortas: A Question of Ethics" | Life |
| 1971 | "The Wired Nation", "The Cops Hit the Jackpot" | The Nation | |
| 1972 | "The River Pirates" | Philadelphia | |
| 1974 | "Life and Death in Medicine" | Scientific American | |
| 1975 | "Is the Water Safe to Drink?" (three-part series) | Consumer Reports | |
| 1976 | Irene Pave | "The Corporate Woman: Up the Ladder, Finally" | BusinessWeek |
| 1977 | Loretta Schwartz | "The Forgotten Children" | Philadelphia |
| 1978 | Mark Dowie | "Pinto Madness" | Mother Jones |
Reporting
Honors "reporting excellence as exemplified by one article or a series of articles". Category formerly titled "Reporting Excellence" 1970–1978 and 1980.
| Year | Winner | Article(s) | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Richard Harris, Daniel Lang | "Annals of Politics" and "Casualties of War" | The New Yorker |
| 1971 | Ward Just | "Soldiers" | The Atlantic |
| 1972 | Ross Terrill | "The 800,000,000: Report from China" | The Atlantic |
| 1973 | Gail Sheehy | "The Landlords of Hell's Bedroom" and "The Old Man in the Bronx" | New York |
| 1974 | Paul Brodeur, John McPhee, Karl E. Meyer | "Annals of Industry: Casualties of the Workplace", "The Plundered Past", "Reporter at Large: The Plundered Past" | The New Yorker |
| 1975 | Noel Mostert | "Supertanker" | The New Yorker |
| 1976 | Alvin Josephy, George Rieger | "Dr. Strangelove Builds a Canal", "Song of the Seal" | Audubon |
| 1977 | Curtis K. Stadtfeld | "Cheap Chemicals and Dumb Luck" | Audubon |
| 1978 | John McPhee | A six-part series on Alaska | The New Yorker |
| 1979 | Richard West | A three-part series on life in three disparate areas of Texas | Texas Monthly |
| 1980 | Mark Dowie | "The Corporate Crime of the Century" | Mother Jones |
| 1981 | Robert J. Samuelson | "Money Makes the World Go Round: But What If It Can't Any More?" | National Journal |
| 1982 | John Pekkanen | "The Saving of the President" | The Washingtonian |
| 1983 | Chris Welles | "Drysdale: What Really Happened?" | Institutional Investor |
| 1984 | Francine du Plessix Gray | "When Memory Goes" | Vanity Fair |
| 1985 | Paul Burka | "The Man in the Black Hat" | Texas Monthly |
| 1986 | David Black | "The Plague Years" | Rolling Stone |
| 1987 | Anne Fadiman | "The Liberation of Lolly and Gronky" | Life |
| 1989 | Robin Wright | "A Reporter at Large: Teheran Summer" | The New Yorker |
| 1990 | Mark Danner | "A Reporter at Large: Beyond the Mountains" | The New Yorker |
| 1991 | Connie Bruck | "The World of Business: Deal of the Year" | The New Yorker |
| 1992 | Michael Kelly | "Highway to Hell", "Rolls-Royce Revolutionaries" and "Back to the Hills" | The New Republic |
| 1993 | Glenn Zorpette, John A. Adam | "Iraq and the Bomb," "Halting Proliferation" | IEEE Spectrum |
| 1994 | Lawrence Wright | "A Reporter at Large: Remember Satan" | The New Yorker |
| 1995 | Eric Schlosser | "Reefer Madness", "Marijuana and the Law" | The Atlantic |
| 1996 | Connie Bruck | "The Politics of Perception" | The New Yorker |
| 1997 | Jon Krakauer | "Into Thin Air" | Outside |
| 1998 | John Colapinto | "The True Story of John/Joan" | Rolling Stone |
| 1999 | Michael Isikoff, Evan Thomas | "Clinton and the Intern", "The Secret War" and "The Tripp Trap?" | Newsweek |
| 2000 | Janine di Giovanni, Sebastian Junger | "Madness Visible," "Forensics of War" | Vanity Fair |
| 2001 | Sean Flynn | "The Perfect Fire" | Esquire |
| 2002 | William Langewiesche | "Crash of Egypt Air 990" | The Atlantic |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Goldberg | "In the Party of God" | The New Yorker |
| 2004 | Evan Wright | "The Killer Elite" | Rolling Stone |
| 2005 | Samantha Power | "Dying in Darfur" | The New Yorker |
| 2006 | James Bamford | "The Man Who Sold the War" | Rolling Stone |
| 2007 | C. J. Chivers | "The School" | Esquire |
| 2008 | Peter Hessler | "China's Instant Cities" | National Geographic |
| 2009 | Dexter Filkins | "Right at the Edge" | The New York Times Magazine |
| 2010 | Sheri Fink | "The Deadly Choices at Memorial" | The New York Times Magazine |
| 2011 | Scott Horton | "The Guantanamo 'Suicides'" | Harper's Magazine |
| 2012 | Lawrence Wright | "The Apostate" | The New Yorker |
Photojournalism
| Date | Name(s) | Article | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jonas Bendiksen | "Kibera" | The Paris Review |
| 2008 | Michael Finkel and John Stanmeyer | "Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria" | National Geographic |
| 2009 | Mark Jenkins; photographs by Brent Stirton | "Who Murdered the Virunga Gorillas?" | National Geographic |
| 2010 | photographs by Pascal Maitre; text by Robert Draper | "Shattered Somalia" | National Geographic |
Reviews and criticism
| Date | Name | Article | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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" (October) | Esquire |
| 2001 | Anthony Lane | "The Maria Problem" (February 14), "The Eye of the Land" (March 13), "The Light Side of the Moon" (April 10) | The New Yorker |
| 2002 | Lee Siegel | "Seize the Day" (March), "The Second Coming of Richard Yates" (July), "Cold Verities" (October) | Harper's Magazine |
| 2003 | James Wolcott | "Terror on the Dotted Line" (January), "U.S. Confidential" (June), "The Penance of Pirates" (October) | Vanity Fair |
| 2004 | Tom Carson | "Increasingly Berserk Developments" (January), "Back to the Terminator" (August), "Mr. Uncongeniality" (December) | Esquire |
| 2005 | Adam Gopnik | "Times Regained" (March 22), "The Big One" (August 23), "Will Power" (September 13) | The New Yorker |
| 2006 | Wyatt Mason | "Make It Newish" (May), "A World Unto Himself" (July), "White Knees" (October) | Harper's Magazine |
| 2007 | Stuart Klawans | "Down These Mean Streets" (October 23), "The Tracks of My Tears" (November 20), "Coming to America!" (December 4) | The Nation |
| 2008 | Caitlin Flanagan | "The Sanguine Sex" (May), "Babes in the Woods" (July&ndah;August), "No Girlfriend of Mine" (November) | The Atlantic |
| 2009 | James Wood | "Say What?" (April 7), "The Homecoming" (September 8), "Wounder and Wounded" (December 1) | The New Yorker |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Kolbert | "Green Like Me" (August 31), "Flesh of Your Flesh" (November 9), "Hosed" (November 16) | The New Yorker |
| 2011 | John Jeremiah Sullivan | "Mr. Lytle: An Essay" | The Paris Review |
Photography
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Design
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See also
References
- ↑ Carmody, Deirdre (April 17, 1992). "National Geographic and New Republic Win". The New York Times.
- ↑ Keith, J. (March 15, 2007). "Ellie Picks Nominated". New York Post.
- ↑ Neuffer, Elizabeth (April 23, 1987). "13 Prizes Awarded for Magazine Excellence". The New York Times.
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