New York Receives National Magazine Awards’ Top Prize

New York Receives Top Magazine Prize

New York magazine took the top honor at the National Magazine Awards on Thursday, receiving magazine of the year for its print and digital coverage.

The annual awards, which are given by the American Society of Magazine Editors, are considered the industry’s most coveted prizes. In giving the award to New York, the judges cited the magazine’s wrenching feature on caring for a dying parent, coverage of what the November election meant for the future and its cover showing Manhattan in dim lights days after Hurricane Sandy.

National Geographic received the highest number of awards with four honors, including best multimedia for its “Cheetahs on the Edge” article, which ran with its November iPad edition, and best tablet magazine. New York, The Atlantic and Texas Monthly each won two awards. New York also received the best magazine section award for its “Strategist” section.

The society gives out general excellence awards in several categories. This year, general excellence in print awards were given to National Geographic, Vogue, Martha Stewart Living, Outside and The Paris Review. The online magazine Pitchfork received the general excellence award for digital media.

National Geographic also won the photography award for its August, September and December issues while the fashion magazine W won the feature photography award for an article on Kate Moss called “Good Kate, Bad Kate” that appeared in its March issue. Saveur’s “Mexico Issue,” which was published in August, won for the best single-topic issue.

The other award recipients were praised for their content and their presentation. The Atlantic won for its Web site as well as for a September article by Ta-Nehisi Coates called “Fear of a Black President.”

Texas Monthly won the public interest award for its August article “Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives” by Mimi Swartz about the impact on women since cuts in 2011 to family planning funds. It also won for feature writing for “The Innocent Man,” a two-part article by Pamela Colloff published in November and December about a man accused of murdering his wife.

Stephen King won his second National Magazine Award in the fiction category, for his story “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation,” which ran in the September issue of Harper’s.