Under 100,000 circulation
Print (Winner): Joyce Rutter Kaye, editor-in-chief, for January/February, July/August, September/October issues.
The American Scholar: Anne Fadiman, editor, for Winter, Spring, Summer issues.
The Believer: Heidi Julavits, Ed Park, and Vendela Vida, co-editors; Andrew Leland, managing editor, for June, September, November issues.
ReadyMade: Shoshana Berger, editor-in-chief, for March/April, May/June, September/October issues.
The Virginia Quarterly Review: Ted Genoways, editor, for Winter, Spring, Fall issues.

100,000 to 250,000 circulation
Dwell (Winner): Allison Arieff, editor-in-chief, for March, October/November, December issues.
Baseline: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, editor-in-chief, for March, April, December issues.
Foreign Policy: Moisés Naím, editor and publisher, for May/June, July/August, September/October issues.
Los Angeles Magazine: Kit Rachlis, editor-in-chief, for June, September, October issues.
Teacher Magazine: Virginia B. Edwards, editor, for August/September, October, November/December issues.

250,000 to 500,000 circulation
Martha Stewart Weddings (Winner): Darcy Miller, editorial director; Melissa Morgan, executive editor, for Winter, Summer, Fall issues.
The Atlantic Monthly: Cullen Murphy, managing editor, for January/February, July/August, November issues.
Cure: Dr. Vinay K. Jain, editor-in-chief; Melissa Weber, managing editor, for Summer, Fall, Winter issues.
Details: Daniel Peres, editor-in-chief, for March, August, September issues.
New York Magazine: Adam Moss, editor-in-chief, for June 7, November 15, November 22 issues.

500,000 to 1,000,000 circulation
Wired (Winner): Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, for February, October, November issues.
Cook’s Illustrated: Christopher Kimball, founder and editor, for August, October and December issues.
Esquire: David Granger, editor-in-chief, for March, September, November issues.
Gourmet: Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief, for March, August, October issues.
Vibe: Mimi Valdés, editor-in-chief, for March, May, November issues.

1,000,000 to 2,000,000 circulation
The New Yorker (Winner): David Remnick, editor, for February 16 & 23, May 10, August 30 issues.
Fortune: Rik Kirkland, managing editor, for April 5, April 19, May 31 issues.
Men’s Health: David Zinczenko, vice-president and editor-in-chief, for March, October, November issues.
Real Simple: Kristin van Ogtrop, managing editor, for May, October, December/January issues.
Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, editor, for March, October, December issues.

Over 2,000,000 circulation
Glamour (Winner): Cynthia Leive, editor-in-chief, for October, November, December issues.
Good Housekeeping: Ellen Levine, editor-in-chief, for September, October, November issues.
National Geographic: William L. Allen, editor-in-chief, for June, November, December issues.
Newsweek: Mark Whitaker, editor, for May 31, November 15, December 27-January 3 issues.
Sports Illustrated: Terry McDonell, Managing Editor, for April 26, September 27, December 6 issues.

PERSONAL SERVICE
This category recognizes excellence in service journalism. The advice or instruction presented should help readers improve the quality of their personal lives.

BabyTalk (Winner): Susan Kane, editor-in-chief, for You Can Breastfeed!, by Kristin O’Callaghan, August.
Budget Living: Sarah Gray Miller, editor-in-chief, for Show Me the Way Home, by Dimity McDowell, April/May.
Money: Robert Safian, managing editor, for two packages compiled by the writers and editors of Money, 101 Things Every Investor Should Know!, March; 101 Things Every Consumer Should Know!, July.
Self: Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief, for its breast cancer handbook, Your Breasts, Healthy for Life, October.
U.S. News & World Report: Brian Duffy, editor, for How to Be a Smart Patient, November 8.

LEISURE INTERESTS
This category recognizes excellent service journalism about leisure-time pursuits. The practical advice or instruction presented should help readers enjoy hobbies or other recreational interests.

Sports Illustrated (Winner): Terry McDonell, managing editor, for its 2004 Olympic Preview, August 2.
Golf Digest: Jerry Tarde, chairman and editor-in-chief, for The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Buddies Trip, December.
National Geographic Adventure: John Rasmus, editor-in-chief, for Grail Trails, by Charles Graeber and Jim Gorman, June/July.
O, The Oprah Magazine: Oprah Winfrey, founder and editorial director; Amy Gross, editor-in-chief, for Attention Shoppers!, September.
Runner’s World: David Willey, editor-in-chief, for Fall Shoe Guide, September, and Winter Shoe Guide, December, by Warren Greene and Ray Fredericksen.

REPORTING
This category recognizes excellence in reporting. It honors the enterprise, exclusive reporting and intelligent analysis that a magazine exhibits in covering an event, a situation or a problem of contemporary interest and significance.

The New Yorker (Winner): David Remnick, editor, for Dying in Darfur, by Samantha Power, August 30.
5280 Magazine: Daniel Brogan, editor and publisher, for Conduct Unbecoming, by Maximillian Potter, February/March.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Philip W. Semas, editor-in-chief, for Degrees of Suspicion: Inside the Multimillion-Dollar World of Diploma Mills, by Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood, June 25.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Philip W. Semas, editor-in-chief, for its special report on plagiarism by Thomas Bartlett, Scott Smallwood, David Glenn and Scott McLemee, December 17.
National Geographic Adventure: John Rasmus, editor-in-chief, for Stomping Grounds, by Paul Kvinta, August.

PUBLIC INTEREST
This category recognizes journalism that has the potential to affect national or local policy or lawmaking. It honors investigative reporting or groundbreaking analysis that sheds new light on an issue of public importance.

The New Yorker (Winner): David Remnick, editor, for the three articles by Seymour M. Hersh, Torture at Abu Ghraib; May 10, Chain of Command, May 17; The Gray Zone, May 24.
5280 Magazine: Daniel Brogan, editor and publisher, for Private Stites Should Have Been Saved, by Maximillian Potter, June/July.
Fortune: Rik Kirkland, managing editor, for Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer (and How to Win It), by Clifton Leaf, March 22.
Harper’s Magazine: Lewis H. Lapham, editor, for Gambling with Abortion: Why Both Sides Think They Have Everything to Lose, by Cynthia Gorney, November.
San Francisco: Bruce Kelley, editor-in-chief, for Innocence Lost, by Nina Martin, November.

FEATURE WRITING
This category recognizes excellence in feature writing. It honors the stylishness and originality with which the author treats his or her subject.

Esquire (Winner): David Granger, editor-in-chief, for Home, by Chris Jones, July.
The Atlantic Monthly: Cullen Murphy, managing editor, for A Sea Story, by William Langewiesche, May.
GQ: Jim Nelson, editor-in-chief, for The Wronged Man, by Andrew Corsello, November.
Texas Monthly: Evan Smith, editor, for They Came. They Sawed., by John Bloom, November.
Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, editor, for American Communion, by David Kamp, October.

PROFILE WRITING
This category recognizes excellence in profile writing. It honors the vividness and perceptiveness with which the writer brings his or her subject to life.

The New Yorker (Winner): David Remnick, editor, for The Gift, by Ian Parker, August 2.
Rolling Stone: Jann S. Wenner, editor and publisher, for The Twilight of Bob Guccione, by John Colapinto, April 1.
Sports Illustrated: Terry McDonell, managing editor, for Walking His Life Away, by Gary Smith, July 26.
Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, editor, for The Man Who Loved Grizzlies, by Ned Zeman, May.
Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, editor, for The Making of a Sniper, by Donovan Webster, September.

ESSAYS
This category recognizes excellence in essay writing on topics ranging from the personal to the political. Whatever the subject, it honors the author’s eloquence, perspective, fresh thinking and unique voice.

National Geographic (Winner): William L. Allen, editor-in-chief, for Was Darwin Wrong?, by David Quammen, November.
The Atlantic Monthly: Cullen Murphy, managing editor, for How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement, by Caitlin Flanagan, March.
Esquire: David Granger, editor-in-chief, for Please Stand By While the Age of Miracles Is Briefly Suspended, by James McManus, August.
Ms.: Elaine Lafferty, editor-in-chief, for Between a Woman and Her Doctor, by Martha Mendoza, Summer.
The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for Last of the Metrozoids, by Adam Gopnik, May 10.

COLUMNS and COMMENTARY
This category recognizes excellence in short-form political, social, economic or humorous commentary. The award honors the eloquence, force of argument and succinctness with which the writer presents his or her views.

National Journal (Winner): Charles Green, editor, for three columns by Jonathan Rauch, On Same-Sex Marriage, Bush Failed the Public and Himself, March 6; Fix the McCain-Feingold Law. Oops—Can I Say That?, September 25; Good Plan, Republicans. But It Didn’t Work In Britain., December 18.
The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for three columns by George Packer, Wars and Ideas, July 5; The Political War, September 27; Questions of Greatness, October 25.
SmartMoney: Fleming Meeks, editor, for three columns by Roger Lowenstein, The Wrong Diagnosis, March; How Greedy Was My Valley, April; What Goes Up…, December.
Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, editor, for three columns by Christopher Hitchens, A Prayer for Indonesia, January; I Fought the Law, February; The Gospel According to Mel, March.
Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, editor, for three columns by James Wolcott, The Bush Bunch, July; Color Me Khaki, September; Rummy on the Rocks, October.

REVIEWS and CRITICISM
This category recognizes excellence in criticism of art, books, movies, television, theater, music, dance, food, dining, fashion, products and the like. It honors the knowledge, persuasiveness and original voice that the critic brings to his or her reviews.

The New Yorker (Winner):David Remnick, editor, for three reviews by Adam Gopnik, Times Regained, March 22; The Big One, August 23; Will Power, September 13.
The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for three reviews by Louis Menand, Bad Comma, June 28; Nanook and Me, August 9 & 16; The Unpolitical Animal, August 30.
GQ: Jim Nelson, editor-in-chief, for three reviews by Alan Richman, The Restaurant Commandments, July; The Thing That Ate New York, November; Stick a Fork in Jean-Georges, December.
The New Republic: Peter Beinart, editor, for three pieces by Jed Perl, Beyond Belief, February 16; Firings, April 5; Modern Immaturity, November 29 & December 6.
Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, editor, for three pieces by James Wolcott, Makeover Madness, January; The Laptop Brigade, April; Bland Ambition, August.

MAGAZINE SECTION
This category recognizes excellence of a regular department or editorial section of a magazine, either front- or back-of-book and composed of a variety of elements, both text and visual. Finalists were selected based on the section’s voice, originality, design, and packaging.

Popular Science (Winner): Scott Mowbray, editor-in-chief, for its section How 2.0, April, May, June.
AARP The Magazine: Steven Slon, editor, for its front-of-book section Navigator, March/April, May/June, September/October.
ESPN The Magazine: Gary Hoenig, editor-in-chief, for its front-of-book section The Jump, March 29, May 10, August 2.
New York Magazine: Adam Moss, editor-in-chief, for its Strategist section, October 18, October 25, November 22.
Runner’s World: David Willey, editor-in-chief, for its front-of-book mega-section Warmups, July, September, November.

SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE
This category recognizes magazines that have devoted an issue to an in-depth examination of one topic. It honors the ambition, comprehensiveness and imagination with which a magazine treats its subject.

Newsweek (Winner): Mark Whitaker, editor, for How He Did It, a special issue on the presidential election, November 15.
Discover: Stephen L. Petranek, editor-in-chief, for its special Einstein issue: 100 Years of Genius Without Limits, September.
Fortune: Richard Kirkland, managing editor, for its 50th anniversary issue on the Fortune 500, April 5.
Gourmet: Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief, for its special issue on New York, March.
Print: Joyce Rutter Kaye, editor-in-chief, for its sex issue, July/August.

DESIGN
This category recognizes excellence in magazine design. It honors the effectiveness of overall design, artwork, graphics and typography in enhancing a magazine’s unique mission and personality.

Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together: (Winner): Jodi Levine, editorial director; Melissa Morgan, executive editor; Deb Bishop, design director, for July/August, September/October, Winter issues.
Details: Daniel Peres, editor-in-chief; Rockwell Harwood, design director, for January/February, March, September issues.
Everyday Food: Margaret Roach, editor-in-chief; Melissa Morgan, executive editor; Scot Schy, design director, for March, November, December issues.
Ski: Kendall Hamilton, editor-in-chief; Eleanor Williamson, art director, for October, November, December issues.
W: Patrick McCarthy, chairman and editorial director; Dennis Freedman, vice chairman and creative director; Edward Leida, executive vice president and group design director; Kirby Rodriguez, art director, for July, September, October issues.

PHOTOGRAPHY
This category recognizes excellence in magazine photography. It honors the effectiveness of photography, photojournalism and photo illustration in enhancing a magazine’s unique mission and personality.

Gourmet (Winner): Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief; Richard Ferretti, creative director; Erika Oliveira, art director; Amy Koblenzer, photo editor, for October, November, December issues.
Country Home: Carol Sheehan, editor-in-chief; Mary Emmerling, creative director; Susan L Uedelhofen, art director, for September, October, November issues.
Details: Daniel Peres, editor-in-chief; Rockwell Harwood, design director; Judith Puckett-Rinella, photography director, for March, September, November issues.
Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together: Jodi Levine, editor-in-chief; Melissa Morgan, executive editor; Deb Bishop, design director; Brooke Reynolds and Robin Rosenthal, senior art directors; Stacie McCormick, photo editor, for Winter, July/August, September/October issues.
New York Magazine: Adam Moss, editor-in-chief; Luke Hayman, design director; Jody Quon, photography director; Chris Dixon, art director; Cory Jacobs, photography editor, for August 16, August 23, November 22 issues.

PHOTO PORTFOLIO/PHOTO ESSAY
This category recognizes a distinctive portfolio or photographic essay. It honors either photos that express an idea or a concept, or documentary photojournalism shot in real time.

Time (Winner): James Kelly, managing editor; Arthur Hochstein, art director; Michele Stephenson, director of photography, for The Tragedy of Sudan, by James Nachtwey, October 4.
Aperture: Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief; Yolanda Cuomo, art director, for Loretta Lux’s Changelings, by Loretta Lux, text by Diana C. Stoll, February.
Condé Nast Traveler: Thomas J. Wallace, editor-in-chief; Robert Best, design director; Kathleen Klech, photography director; Kerry Robertson, art director; Esin Ili Göknar, picture editor, for Empire of Ice, by Len Jenshel and Diane Cook, July.
Departures: Richard David Story, editor-in-chief; Bernard Scharf, creative director; Jennifer L. Martin, director of photography; Trent Johnson, art director, for To Catch a Thief, by Torkil Gudnason, November/December.
Los Angeles Magazine: Kit Rachlis, editor-in-chief; Joe Kimberling, art director; Kathleen Clark, photo editor; for City of Ash, by Robert Polidori, April.
The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor; Elisabeth Biondi, director of photography, for Democracy 2004, by Richard Avedon, November 1.

FICTION
This category recognizes excellence in magazine fiction writing. It honors the quality of a publication’s literary selections.

The Atlantic Monthly (Winner): Cullen Murphy, managing editor, for An Incomplete Map of the Northern Polarity, by Nathan Roberts, January/February; Foaling Season, by Aryn Kyle, May; The One in White, by Robert Olen Butler, July/August.
Harper’s Magazine: Lewis H. Lapham, editor, for Natasha, by David Bezmozgis, May; Commission, by Tim Winton, September; Introduction to Speech, by Ron Carlson, December.
The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for The Last Words on Earth, by Nicole Krauss, February 9; Passion, by Alice Munro, March 22; Old Boys, Old Girls, by Edward P. Jones, May 3.
The Paris Review: Brigid Hughes, executive editor, for The Fifth Wall, by Malinda McCollum; The Wamsutter Wolf, by Annie Proulx; Everyone Else, by Antoine Wilson, Fall.
The Virginia Quarterly Review: Ted Genoways, editor, for The Immortals, by John McNally, Spring; Happy, by Dean Bakopoulos, Summer; The Futurist, by James P. Othmer, Fall.

GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE
This category recognizes outstanding magazine Internet sites, as well as online-only magazines and Weblogs, that have a significant amount of original content. It honors sites that reflect an outstanding level of interactivity, journalistic integrity, service and innovative visual presentation.

Style.com (www.style.com) (Winner): Jamie Pallot, editorial director, CondeNet
The Atlantic Online (www.theatlantic.com): Sage Stossel, senior editor
BusinessWeek Online (www.businessweek.com): Kathy Rebello, editor
ConsumerReports.org (www.consumerreports.org): Laura R. Bona, editor
Nerve.com (www.nerve.com): Michael Martin, editor-in-chief

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