- Sy Hersh's Abu Gharib coverage for the New Yorker won for best Public Interest journalism. Yeah, I'd say that was important.
- Jon Rauch beat Chris Hitchens and James Wolcott for Best Commentary. Take that, you People In That Magazine That Takes 200 Pages Until You Find The Articles!
- Newsweek won Best Single-Topic Issue for its outstanding day-after coverage of the presidential election. The post-mortem to lay to rest all others.
- I am amused that this profile of kidney-donating nut Zell Kravinsky won Best Profile. Great discussion of our moral obligations, if you're into that sort of thing.
- F'n surrender-monkey-lovin' Adam Gopnik beat Alan Richman for best reviewer. That ain't right, dude. Richman is to food writing what Miss Jay Alexander is to runway.
- Finalists who did not win include incomparable sports profiler Gary Smith who's already won a bunch of NMAs, and, glad-she-was-recognized-and-glad-she-didn't-win, Caitlin Flanagan's provocative How Serfdom Saved The Women's Movement from the Atlantic Monthly, about which much internet ink has already been spilled.
If there's one thing I wish had been recognized, it would be ESPN the Magazine's continuing excellent coverage of mental health issues with athletes, a trend which this week's piece on Bill Pulsipher continues admirably. (See, e.g., this link, skip to "He was all packed.")
What else should have been given props?
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