The American Society of Magazine Editors
(ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2013 National Magazine Awards.
Known as the Ellies—for the Alexander Calder stabile "Elephant" given
to each award winner-—the National Magazine Awards will be presented on
Thursday, May 2, at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Sixty-two publications were nominated this
year in 23 categories. Twenty-six magazines received multiple nominations, led
by National Geographic with seven, followed by Bon Appétit and New
York, both with six. GQ and The New Yorker both received five
nominations; Esquire, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones
and Texas Monthly all received four.
Magazines with multiple nominations also
include The Atlantic (3), Saveur (3), TIME (3), Wired
(3), Bloomberg Businessweek (2), Byliner (2), Golf Digest
(2) Los Angeles (2), Martha Stewart Living (2), The New York
Times Magazine (2), Outside (2), The Paris Review (2),
Real Simple (2), Scientific American (2),Slate (2), Sports
Illustrated (2) and W (2).