The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has announced the finalists for its 2013 column contest. One name to note: Roger Ebert. His column was nominated in the Online, Blog and Multimedia category.

Congrats to all the nominees, who we’ve listed below. The winners will be named June 29.

General Interest, Newspapers over 50,000 Circulation

Dave Lieber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Thomas Rademacher, The Grand Rapids Press; Rich Telander, Chicago Sun-Times.

Humor, Newspapers over 50,000 Circulation

Samantha Bennett, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Bob Dyer, Akron Beacon Journal; Brian O’Connor, The Detroit News.

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The National Magazine Awards (a.k.a. The Ellies) were given out last night and almost every magazine you can think of won, aside from The New Yorker. The magazine was nominated five times, but failed to take home a paperweight that vaguely resembles an elephant for the first time since 2007. But don’t feel bad for The New Yorker. It’s still The New Yorker.

Other notables from the Ellies: New York won Magazine of The Year and National Geographic won four times, the most of any magazine.

Below is the extremely long list of winners.

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Unsurprisingly, New York’s “The City and The Storm” has won ASME’s 2013 Magazine Cover of The Year award.

The stunning photograph for New York’s November 12, 2012 issue was taken by Iwan Baan. He took the picture while hovering above the city in a helicopter.

The Sigma Delta Chi Awards — which honor excellence in professional journalism — have been announced. Each year the Society of Professional Journalists sort through over 1,700 entries to pick winners in print, radio, television and online. Below are the magazine winners. Click through for the entire list.

Magazine Investigative Reporting (National Circulation)
“Duping the Donors,” by David Evans, Bloomberg Markets

Magazine Investigative Reporting (Regional/Local Circulation)
“Crime, No Punishment,” by Lilly Rockwell, Florida Trend

Magazine Writing (National Circulation)
“The Yankee Comandante,” by David Grann, The New Yorker

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The 2013 Mirror Awards finalists have been announced. The awards highlight excellence in media reporting. The winners will be announced Wednesday, June 5, at Cipriani. Congrats to all those nominated.

Best Single Article – Traditional/Legacy Media

• Ken Auletta, “Citizens Jain,” The New Yorker
• Jeff Bercovici, “The Next Media Jackpot: The Fight For The $1 Trillion Hispanic Market,” Forbes
• Joe Hagan, “Truth or Consequences,” Texas Monthly
• Tara Murtha, “How Two Photojournalists Are Taking on the City’s Gun Crisis,” Philadelphia Weekly
• Chris Robbins, “An udder mess: How the Atlantic got it all wrong in St. Lawrence County,” Watertown Daily Times
• John Seabrook, “Streaming Dreams,” The New Yorker

Best Single Article – Digital Media

• Michael Calderone, “At The 2012 Conventions, 15,000 Journalists Search For A Story,” Huffington Post
• Joe Eskenazi, “Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!,” SF Weekly
• Hugh Hart, “Fast-Frame Hobbit Dangles Prospect of Superior Cinema, But Will Theaters Bite?,” Wired
• Adrienne LaFrance “How to make your journalism project succeed on Kickstarter,” Nieman Journalism Lab
• Bret Schulte, “‘This is my paper. This is my town‘,” Columbia Journalism Review
• Joe Strupp, “How A Right-Wing Group Is Infiltrating State News Coverage,” MediaMatters

The American Society of Magazine Editors has just announced the finalists for the 2013 Magazine of The Year. Just like the other National Magazine Awards finalists, the winner will be named at an award ceremony on Thursday, May 2, at the Marriott Marquis. Congrats to all the nominees.

2013 Magazine of The Year Finalists:

• Esquire (General Excellence, Print; Magazine Section; Personal Service; Tablet Magazine)
• Glamour (General Excellence, Digital Media)
• National Geographic (General Excellence, Print; General Excellence, Digital Media; Photography; Feature Photography; Website; Tablet Magazine; Multimedia)
• New York (General Excellence, Print; Design; Feature Photography; Magazine Section; Essays and Criticism; Columns and Commentary)
• Time (Design; Photography; Multimedia)

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has announced the finalists for the 2013 Ellies, and National Geographic leads the pack with seven nominations. Following up NatGeo is Bon Appétit and New York with six nominations; and GQ and The New Yorker each got five.

Below are the other magazines and digital publications which received multiple nominations:

• Four Nominations: Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, Texas Monthly 
• Three Nominations: The Atlantic, Saveur, Time, Wired
• Two Nominations: Businessweek, Byliner, Golf Digest, Los Angeles, Martha Stewart Living, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The Paris Review, Real Simple, Scientific American, Slate, Sports Illustrated, W

The Ellies will be given out Thursday, May 2, at the Marriott Marquis. The finalists for magazine of the year will be announced next Monday. For the full list of nominations, click through.

The 72nd annual George Foster Peabody Award winners have been announced. Below is just a few of the winners who are honored for excellence in electronic media.

The awards will be given out during a ceremony on May 20 at the Waldorf Astoria. For the complete list of all 39 winners, click through.

• “Robin’s Journey” and “Superstorm Sandy” (ABC)
• Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (The New York Times)
• “Inside the National Recording Registry” and “The Leonard Lopate Show” (WNYC/Public Radio International)
• “Deception at Duke” and “Joy in The Congo” (CBS)

The finalists for this year’s Michael Kelly Award have been announced. The award — in its 10th year — is in honor of Kelly, who edited two Atlantic Media publications and was killed while covering the Iraq war. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be announced April 14.

2013 Michael Kelly Award finalists:

• Alberto Arce, the Associated Press. Arce is honored for his work in Honduras.
• David Barboza, The New York Times. Barboza is honored for his piece on Wen Jiabao, the Prime Minister of China. 
• Brian Mockenhaupt, Byliner.com. Mockenhaupt is honored for his article on a Marine platoon in Afghanistan that took many casualties. 
• Michael Phillips, The Wall Street Journal. Phillips is honored for his reporting on what soldiers experienced in Afghanistan and once they returned home.

On Sunday, August 25, MTV will be broadcasting its Video Music Awards from the Barclays Center, so if you live anywhere near the arena, you might want to just leave town that weekend.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s happening. In fact, here’s a couple terrible statements from Michael Bloomberg and Marty Markowitz to prove it. We honestly cannot decide which is more annoying, but the early edge goes to Markowitz.

Bloomberg:

Brooklyn is home to icons like the Cyclone in Coney Island and the Brooklyn Bridge, and now it can lay claim to the MTV Video Music Awards.

Likening the status of the Brooklyn Bridge to the VMAs has got to be illegal somehow.

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