• March 19, 2003

The American Society of Magazine Editors’ (ASME) 38th annual National Magazine Awards will be presented at a luncheon in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria on Wednesday, May 7. This year’s National Magazine Award finalists include are heavy on terrorism, homeland security and the situation in the Middle East. Yet, despite the overall serious tone, bright and provocative notes appear throughout the finalist roster. A mix of well-established magazines, as well as relative newcomers, are first-time finalists: Book, Dwell, Elegant Bride, Foreign Policy, Golf For Women, JD Jungle, My Generation (which ceased publication earlier this year), National Review, Parenting, Real Simple, STEP inside design, CNET News.com and Style.com. Seventeen finalists are based outside of New York – in Athens (GA), Austin, Boston, Boulder, Cambridge (MA), Peoria (IL), Redmond (WA), San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Washington, DC. For the sixth consecutive year, The New Yorker leads the list of 102 finalists with a total of nine nominations in seven categories. In addition to The New Yorker, sixteen magazines received multiple nominations. The Atlantic Monthly received seven; Harper's Magazine and Vanity Fair received five; GQ, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated received four; Esquire, National Geographic, Outside, and Texas Monthly received three; and The American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Condé Nast Traveler, Fortune, The Georgia Review and National Geographic Adventure received two .