ASME finalists, so far
From an ASME release [Ed.—Apparently someone besides Peter Carlson likes The Believer.]:
GENERAL EXCELLENCE: This category recognizes overall excellence in magazines. The award honors the effectiveness with which writing, reporting, editing and design all come together to command readers’ attention and fulfill the magazine’s unique editorial mission.
Circulation under 100,000:
The American Scholar, The Believer, Print, ReadyMade, The Virginia Quarterly Review
Circulation of 100,000 to 250,000:
Baseline, Dwell, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Magazine, Teacher Magazine
Circulation of 250,000 to 500,000:
The Atlantic Monthly, Cure, Details, Martha Stewart Weddings, New York Magazine
Circulation of 500,000 to 1,000,000:
Cook’s Illustrated, Esquire, Gourmet, Vibe, Wired
Circulation of 1,000,000 to 2,000,000:
Fortune, Men’s Health, The New Yorker, Real Simple, Vanity Fair
Circulation over 2,000,000:
Glamour, Good Housekeeping, National Geographic, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated
PERSONAL SERVICE: This category recognizes excellence in service journalism. The advice or instruction presented should help readers improve the quality of their personal lives.
BabyTalk, Budget Living, Money, Self, U.S. News & World Report
LEISURE INTERESTS: This category recognizes excellent service journalism about leisure-time pursuits. The practical advice or instruction presented should help readers enjoy hobbies or other recreational interests.
Golf Digest, National Geographic Adventure, O, The Oprah Magazine, Runner’s World, Sports Illustrated
REPORTING: This category recognizes excellence in reporting. It honors the enterprise, exclusive reporting and intelligent analysis that a magazine exhibits in covering an event, a situation or a problem of contemporary interest and significance.
5280 Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education (two nominations), National Geographic Adventure, The New Yorker
PUBLIC INTEREST: This category recognizes journalism that has the potential to affect national or local policy or lawmaking. It honors investigative reporting or groundbreaking analysis that sheds new light on an issue of public importance.
5280 Magazine, Fortune, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, San Francisco Magazine
FEATURE WRITING: This category recognizes excellence in feature writing. The award honors the stylishness and originality with which the author treats his or her subject.
The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, GQ, Texas Monthly, Vanity Fair
PROFILE WRITING: This category recognizes excellence in profile writing. The award honors the vividness and perceptiveness with which the writer brings his or her subject to life.
The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair (two nominations)
ESSAYS: This category recognizes excellence in essay writing on topics ranging from the personal to the political. Whatever the subject, the award honors the author’s eloquence, perspective, fresh thinking and unique voice.
The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker
COLUMNS and COMMENTARY: This category recognizes excellence in short-form political, social, economic or humorous commentary. The award honors the eloquence, force of argument and succinctness with which the writer presents his or her views.
National Journal, The New Yorker, Smart Money, Vanity Fair (two nominations)
REVIEWS and CRITICISM: This category recognizes excellence in criticism of art, books, movies, television, theater, music, dance, food, dining, fashion, products and the like. The award honors the knowledge, persuasiveness and original voice that the critic brings to his or her reviews.
GQ, The New Republic, The New Yorker (two nominations), Vanity Fair
MAGAZINE SECTION: This category recognizes excellence of a regular department or editorial section of a magazine, either front- or back-of-book and composed of a variety of elements, both text and visual. The award honors the section’s voice, originality, design and packaging.
AARP The Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, New York Magazine, Popular Science, Runner’s World
SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE: This category recognizes magazines that have devoted an issue to an in-depth examination of one topic. The award honors the ambition, comprehensiveness and imagination with which a magazine treats its subject.
Discover, Fortune, Gourmet, Newsweek, Print
DESIGN: This category recognizes excellence in magazine design. The award honors the effectiveness of overall design, artwork, graphics and typography in enhancing a magazine’s unique mission and personality.
Details, Everyday Food, Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together, Ski, W
PHOTOGRAPHY: This category recognizes excellence in magazine photography. The award honors the effectiveness of photography, photojournalism and photo illustration in enhancing a magazine’s unique mission and personality.
Country Home, Details, Gourmet, Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together, New York Magazine
PHOTO PORTFOLIO/PHOTO ESSAY: This category recognizes a distinctive portfolio or photographic essay. The award honors either photos that express an idea or concept, or documentary photojournalism shot in real time.
Aperture, Condé Nast Traveler, Departures, Los Angeles Magazine, The New Yorker, Time
FICTION: This category recognizes excellence in magazine fiction writing. The award honors the quality of a publication’s literary selections.
The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review
GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE: This category recognizes outstanding magazine Internet sites, as well as online-only magazines and Weblogs that have a significant amount of original content. The award honors sites that reflect an outstanding level of interactivity, journalistic integrity, service and innovative visual presentation.
The Atlantic Online, BusinessWeek Online, ConsumerReports.org, Nerve.com, Style.com
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