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Topic: Did New York Mag Deserve 5 Ellies?
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| noah_mb | Posted – 5/2/2007 9:03:27 AM | show profile | email poster Ellies Upset as New York Cleans Up (FishbowlNY) The New Yorker left empty-handed last night, losing in all nine categories in which it was nominated. The Atlantic Monthly was shut out as well. The big winner: New York magazine, which was nominated for seven awards and took home five, including general excellence for magazines with circulations of 250,000 to 500,000, and interactive feature, a new category, for nymag.com. NYT: The other general-excellence winners were National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Wired and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. NYP: Time Inc., the nation's biggest magazine company, which has been racked by turmoil, selloff and downsizings, also emerged as a big loser. WWD: Esquire wins one for C.J. Chivers. AdAge: The judges said New York, which edito Adam Moss led to its first general-excellence award last year, had demonstrated that city books can provide a lot more than event listings and restaurant reviews. Chicago Tribune: In an eclectic and glitzy universe marked by the likes of Vanity Fair and Esquire, bells of a victory tolled Tuesday night for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a rigorously sober publication started by physicists and best known for a depressing clock. ------ Noah Davis assistant editor mediabistro.com |
| DHernandez | Posted – 5/2/2007 11:11:50 AM | show profile Can't read the Fishbowl link through the Monster pop-up that refuses to close. Gotta love these random questions MB puts up, though. |
| DHernandez | Posted – 5/2/2007 11:28:59 AM | show profile OK, I looked at the winners list via a different method. Did New York magazine deserve five Ellies? Who knows? I'm so tied up with reading about my own city that reading a city magazine for NYC isn't on my radar. So much about winning any contest depends on who enters and who's judging. If it turns out that the panel of judges is overwhelmingly based in New York or has members who are tight with the magazine, then you have a controversy worth discussing. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/2/2007 12:10:43 PM | show profile Yeah. It's definitely political. The judges are almost all NYC editors or former editors hooked in with Columbia and the ASME organization. Slapping each other's backs, giving awards to former employees who did them favors back in the day. The women's magazines win in only two categories; the junky categories--Personal Service, Leisure Interests. The big boys win all the reporting and feature writing awards--not to mention General Excellence. I was pleased to see Cincinatti Magazine get a nod, but I knew it wouldn't win. And group articles should be eliminated altogether. There's a ditzy money columnist (who just got taken down by Time Mag, a magazine she lists herself as a columnist for when she hasn't contributed anything since 2003) who calls herself a two-time national mag award nominee: Both times as part of a group, both times in Personal Service, both times edited by a HUGE ASME golden boy. New York is a good magazine, but Adam Moss did his best work at Seven Days and The NY Times Mag. Seven Days won a bunch of ASMEs way back when, too. So it's an old game, an old boy's game. As for the dead puppy question, huh? I mean, I have a sense of humor and all, but I didn't really get that one. And some of those questioned were nominees, but others were no-names--don't even know why they were there. Why didn't Radar ask, "Who would you sleep with at ASME to get an Ellie?" or "What would you send to Madeline Kahn as a bribe to get an Ellie?" THAT would have been funny. Nice reponses from the guys who said they'd kill a puppy for a ride home and kill someone's cat. Classy dudes. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/2/2007 12:14:15 PM | show profile Oh with the exception of Glamour winning gen ex. And the editor of that magazine is the current president of ASME. Quel surprise. LOVE the Atomic Scientists win, though. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/2/2007 1:33:56 PM | show profile and that would be what would you bribe Marlene Kahan with to get an Ellie--not the actress from Young Frankenstein. And I don't think that's spelled right either. |
| gillian.kahn | Posted – 5/2/2007 1:42:07 PM | show profile | email poster Kudos New York! As a former staff member of a well-known literary magazine for nearly 20 years, I remember Ellie season well. Excitement tempered by cynical nonchalance. What great news to hear of New York's awards! I have been an avid reader of the magazine for nearly 15 years (and I live in Boston, though hail from New Jersey). It is a dynamic, thoughtful, clever, and most of all, fun read. Period. No more no less. It is what it is. And that's a winner! |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 5/2/2007 1:46:01 PM | show profile I feel the same way. Personally, I don't pay much attention to magazine awards unless I'm up for one :) --Did New York magazine deserve five Ellies? Who knows? I'm so tied up with reading about my own city that reading a city magazine for NYC isn't on my radar. So much about winning any contest depends on who enters and who's judging. If it turns out that the panel of judges is overwhelmingly based in New York or has members who are tight with the magazine, then you have a controversy worth discussing.-- |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 5/2/2007 1:46:03 PM | show profile I feel the same way. Personally, I don't pay much attention to magazine awards unless I'm up for one :) --Did New York magazine deserve five Ellies? Who knows? I'm so tied up with reading about my own city that reading a city magazine for NYC isn't on my radar. So much about winning any contest depends on who enters and who's judging. If it turns out that the panel of judges is overwhelmingly based in New York or has members who are tight with the magazine, then you have a controversy worth discussing.-- |
| julie30 | Posted – 5/2/2007 1:50:01 PM | show profile Ahhh, print... Still awarding itself, to the sounds of the death knell. |
| KvetcherInTheRye | Posted – 5/2/2007 7:51:14 PM | show profile unseemly my brother in law used to win the championship at the tennis club every summer. he thwarted the no. 2 guy over and over. it became unseemly. like nathan lane on broadway, moss ought to retire at the top and let someone else have a chance. |
| nekalit | Posted – 5/4/2007 10:51:21 AM | show profile No, I have not read the magazine since the previous editor. |
| ezimmer | Posted – 5/5/2007 5:48:09 PM | show profile | email poster NEW YORK WIN I get about 50 magazines a month if you count the weeklies as four, and I have to say that the only one I read right away, cover to cover, before I toss it, is New York. That's because it's so much fun, and generally useful. I adore the New Yorker, but I feel that it can be saved, stored, taken along on plane trips....and somehow I'm not reading the NYTimes Magazine much at all anymore. NY is really cooking now. If that's the criterion for winning prizes, so be it. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/6/2007 12:42:15 AM | show profile I remember when a profile on the abortion doctor--just months before he was shot in his kitchen by a sniper--won ASMEs. Now profiles on fashion designers --tacky ones--win. Razzle Dazzle, readability, pop culture appeal; If such be the criterial for awards, forget it. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/6/2007 2:42:53 AM | show profile And I just KNOW Katie Roiphie will nail next year's essay and criticism award for that bold and insightful piece on her fabulous divorce. |
