Herein, some standouts from the writing-specific categories in today's National Magazine Award nominees that may not have stood out the first time, for your couch and/or train ride home tonight.
"I feel like when we win, everybody wins," said Time managing editor Rick Stengel in a ballroom at the New York Marriott Marquis Thursday night, accepting a National Magazine Award for magazine of the year, the evening's top honor. Of course, everybody did not win.
On April 3, the finalists of the National Magazine Awards were announced. They were very, very manly.
It's that time of year again, when the American Society of Magazine Editors releases its list of award nominees, and everyone in the print media business peers jealously at the competition.
Plus: guess who's coming to perform magic at the ASME dinner?
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