As expected, David Willey, senior vice president of Rodale, was elected president of the American Society of Magazine Editors today at the annual ASME luncheon. He replaces outgoing president Cindi Leive. Willey, who is the editor-in-chief of Runner's World and the editorial director of Running Times, is the first ASME president based outside of New York in more than a decade.

Elle EIC Roberta Myers will serve another term as vice president, while New York's Adam Moss and Self's Lucy Danziger get one more year as secretary and treasurer, respectively.

Joining the board for two-year terms are Larry Hackett, managing editor of People, James B. Meigs, EIC of Popular Mechanics, and Ladies' Home Journal's Diane Salvatore.

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The Gray Lady will be the big winner at the 69th annual Overseas Press Club ceremony tonight at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York. The New York Times will receive six of the 21 awards, the most any single organization's won in one year. Getty Images will take home three of the four photography awards.

Ann Curry will host the ceremony, while The Wall Street Journal's former managing editor (no, not that one) Paul Steiger will serve as the featured speaker, presumably sans pie to the face.

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MinOnline's Best of the Web 2008 awards, which recognize "outstanding Web sites and digital initiatives among consumer and b2b magazines" were presented this past Monday at a luncheon at New York's Grand Hyatt Hotel. And while it's probably safe to assume the ceremony was wholly lacking in long-winded musical numbers and over-styled starlets with categories like "Microsite/Custom Website" and "Uses of Interactivity" how could one resist.

This year's big winners included Newsweek.com's "Voices of the Fallen" - a feature that gathered together the emails, journal entries and letters of one hundred soldiers who'd died in Iraq - for "Best Integration With Print;" Meredith's Better Homes & Gardens, which snagged "Online Team of the Year;" and thedailygreen, winner of best "New Site."

Perhaps in some small measure of the times in which we are living Passport, a blog by the Editors of Foreign Policy, beat out nymag.com's entertainment blog Vulture in the "Blog/s and/or Videologs" category. Also of note, the New Yorker, ever at the top of their game (and where short fiction is concerned, often the only one playing) won for its Fiction Podcast.

A complete list of winners and finalists can be found here.