The Atlantic Leads Ellies With Eight Nominations

Posted on March 20, 2006

The finalists for the National Magazine Awards (the Ellies) have been announced. Leading the pack is The Atlantic with a total of eight nominations. Here are some of the other highlights:

Twenty-five finalists are magazines based outside of New York: in Austin, Boston, Berkeley, Cambridge, Charlottesville, Chicago, Conway (AR), Emmaus, Los Angeles, New Haven, San Francisco, Santa Fe and Washington, DC.

First-time finalists include: Legal Affairs (recently closed), Backpacker, Town & Country Travel, McSweeney's, CNET.com and Men.style.com.

Twenty-three other titles received multiple nominations: Aperture (2), Backpacker (2), Conde Nast Traveler (2), Esquire (2), Everyday Food (2), Field & Stream (3), GQ (5), Harper's Magazine (5), Legal Affairs (2), Martha Stewart Living (2), Men's Health (3), National Geographic (5), New York (5), The New Yorker (5), O, The Oprah Magazine (2), The Oxford American (2), Rolling Stone (3), Scientific American (2), Texas Monthly (3), Time (3), Vanity Fair (3), The Virginia Quarterly Review (6), W (2).

The winners will be announced on Tuesday, May 9, at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York City. A complete list of the finalists can be found here. Discussion of the Ellies can be found on Gawker, Fishbowl NY, Canadian Magazines and LA Observed.