Learn From the Winners
The challenging economy personalized and visualized
Custom publishing’s gift to the armed forces’ gamers
A meltdown story for the ages
A truly great how-to inspires the reader to take that first step
A magazine exposes bailout exploitation and does the math
Mouth-watering, hyper-realistic visions captured in print
An editor chats with her good friends—her readers
Wake up see the coffee in this photo gallery
A photo spread that locates and deepens the character of a place
Photojournalism that plays into magazines’ core strength—immersion
Tribute finally gets paid to Tarzan’s old pal
A magazine brand splits its focus to maintain reader loyalty
An article empowers readers to question the value of generic drugs
An e-newsletter becomes a lifeline for its audience
An interactive Web site in the reader’s in-box
A TV column that’s a watercooler of shared opinion
A trade journalist pokes through a fog of self-interest
A cover’s sparing use of headlines and generous use of open space
Service journalism at its best
An editorial series that makes global awareness fun for kids
A ripped and toned rebirth for a magazine
Recapturing the romance and drama of hotels in special issue
A model of community that’s developing into a major content enterprise
A cover story turns into a multi-platform extravaganza
Targeting the lucrative forty-something female demo with a special section
Editorial dedicated to the personal experiences of soldiers
Greeting visitors with video at every turn
A rethink of food magazines
The polish of a formal magazine with all the intimacy of modern blogging
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| Hall of Fame |
Never in publishing history has content innovation been so critical to the future of magazines. Web sites can proliferate links. Television can spew endless sound bites. But when it comes to generating new ideas, new takes, new voices and initiating new cultural conversations, magazines continued to lead the media world in 2009.
Whether it was Anna Wintour proudly defending the authority and wisdom of her September issue or BusinessWeek exposing the continued chicanery of subprime mortgage bankers, whether it was People en Español’s inspired recasting of classic Hollywood scenes with contemporary celebrities or SELF magazine exposing the dangers of generic drugs, magazines led while the other platforms followed.
In min’s first Editorial & Design Awards we hoped to highlight the inherent strengths of the magazine industry—to think harder and faster about the world around us than everyone else. We were not disappointed—the editorial and design teams honored here were more than up to the task, in a challenged industry during even more challenging times.
This was a year when trade magazines like Stars & Stripes met the pain of war with both honor in its celebration of heroism and diversion in its video gaming series for the troops. It was a year when Martha Stewart gave us something to celebrate on all 60 days of summer and Parents magazine showed us how to raise children who would be ready for a more multicultural world. Harper’s Bazaar dazzled us with covers that seemed to pop from the newsstand and Fortune gave us an hour-by-hour walkthrough of a weekend in September 2008 that changed Wall Street forever.
The winners and honorable mentions in this year’s awards are testaments to the place magazines continue to have in American life and why they remain as popular now as ever. These writers, editors, photographers and designers help set the agenda, establish the style, spark the conversations and get their facts straight.
We congratulate all the winners and finalists, who were selected from a pool of entries by an outside panel of publishing experts as well as by min editors. We also present the 2009 class of inductees into min’s Editorial Hall of Fame, who were honored, along with the Editorial & Design Award winners, at an award breakfast in New York on Nov. 18.
—Steve Smith
See photos of the event
View the 2009 Editorial & Design Awards issue
- Peter Bart – Variety, Reed Business Information
- Jackie Leo – Peter G. Peterson Foundation
- Sally Lee – Ladies Home Journal, Meredith Corp.
- Ellen Levine – Hearst Magazines, Hearst Corp.
- John Rasmus – National Geographic Adventure
- Gael Towey – Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
- Anna Wintour – Vogue, Condé Nast
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• Advanstar Communications – Drug Topics eNews
• BudgetTravel.com
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Honorable Mentions:
- Advanstar Communications – Drug Topics eNews
- About.com – About.com Newsletter
- Beauty Industry Report – Beauty Industry Report
- FierceMarkets/FierceWireless – The Daily Wireless Industry Monitor
- Steel Business Briefing – SBB Daily Briefing
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Hearst Magazines – Food Network Magazine
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Honorable Mentions:
- Parenting Magazine – Parenting Early Years and School Years
- MSP Communications – Delta Sky Magazine
- SmartWork Media – Spa+
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• Entertainment Weekly – PopWatch
• TechWeb/Internet Evolution – ThinkerNet
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Honorable Mentions:
- About.com – Calorie Count Blog
- Dwell – Dwell.com
- Harvard Business Publishing, Umair Haque – Edge Economy
- Haymarket Media, McKnight's Long Term Care – The Editors Blog
- Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. – The Martha Blog
- BudgetTravel.com – This Just In
- Time.com – Tuned In
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Harper’s Bazaar
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Honorable Mentions:
- Entrepreneur Magazine
- People en Español – Los 50 Mas Bellos
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Condé Nast Publications/Allure Magazine – April 2009
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Honorable Mention:
- Every Day With Rachael Ray – May 2009
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TechWeb/Information Week – You vs. the Downturn
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Honorable Mentions:
- The Journal of Accountancy – Welcome to America – IFRS
- Smart Meetings – The Green Issue
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Stars & Stripes – Stripes GAMER
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Honorable Mentions:
- Movmnt Magazine – Arti$tic Reinvention
- SagaCity Media, Inc. – Cityvision
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Popular Science with Zinio – The Green Home Guide
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Honorable Mentions:
- TechInsights/EE Times with NxtBook – Apollo: The Epic That Launched a Generation of Engineers
- Esquire with Zinio – How to Be a Man
- VIVmag with Zinio– The Giving Back Issue
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• Dwell – Dwellings
• Parents – Small World
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Honorable Mentions:
- AARP Segunda Juventud – President Obama's First 100 Days
- BusinessWeek – Medical Data
- CareerCast.com – Jobs Rated Report
- Data Center Management
- Entertainment Weekly – EW.com TV Watch
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Fortune – Three Days that Shook the World
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Honorable Mentions:
- AARP Segunda Juventud – Just Once More: The Face of Addiction
- Dwell – A Narrow Victory
- Fierce Markets/Fierce Wireless – Fierce Wireless Fierce 15 Awards
- Town & Country – How Could You?
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Fitness Magazine – Bikini Body
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Honorable Mentions:
- Every Day With Rachael Ray – No-Recipe Zone, Meatball Subs
- Hearst Magazines/Food Network Magazine – Try This at Home Pasta
- Parenting Magazine – Diagnosis: Emergency
- SELF Magazine – Create Your Happy Life List
- InStyle Magazine – Best Summer Ever (July 2009)
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BusinessWeek – The Subprime Wolves Are Back
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Honorable Mentions:
- Marie Claire – Project Pearl: The Bravest Class in Town
- Marie Claire – Love in the Time of Terror
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Bonnier Corp./Saveur Magazine – Saveur Magazine/Dining in America
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Honorable Mentions:
- Hearst Magazines – Marie Claire Sept. 2009
- House Beautiful, July 2009, Hearst Magazines
- InStyle – June 2009
- Travel + Leisure – October 2008
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Fitness Magazine
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Honorable Mention:
- Entrepreneur Magazine
- Medical Economics
- SagaCity Media, Inc. – Washington State Visitors’ Guide
- InStyle
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• Entertainment Weekly – Ken Tucker’s Watching TV
• Penton Media/Telephony Online -What the FCC didn't Tell Us about the USF Audit
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Honorable Mentions:
- FierceMarkets/Fierce Wireless – AT&T’s Mobile Broadband House of Cards
- TechWeb/Internet Evolution – How to Lose Your Job by Being an Internet Idiot
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Town & Country Magazine – Editor’s Letter by Pamela Fiori
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Honorable Mentions:
- Advanstar Communications/Dermatology Times– "Watching Out for No.1” by Elaine Siegfried
- Haymarket Media, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News – The Big Picture by John O'Connor
- Entertainment Weekly – "Yep, He's…Adam Lambert" by Mark Harris
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SELF – Brava, Java!
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Honorable Mentions:
- Condé Nast Publications/Allure Magazine – Coming of Age
- Harper’s Bazaar – “Wild Things”
- People en Español – Los 50 Mas Bellos
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Entertainment Weekly – The Photo Issue
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Honorable Mention:
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Travel + Leisure – The New Delhi
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Honorable Mentions:
- Advanstar Communications/Medical Economics – Get the Word Out
- Hearst Magazines/Food Network Magazine – You’re Foiled
- People Magazine – This Is Home
- People Magazine – An African Boy's Healing Year – 9/22/09
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Entertainment Weekly – It's Hard Out There for a Chimp
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Honorable Mentions:
- BusinessWeek – What have you done to My Company?
- Entertainment Weekly – True Believer
- Harper's Bazaar – Susan Boyle: Unsung Hero
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Parenting Magazine – Parenting Early Years and School Years
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Honorable Mentions:
- Advanstar Communications – Drug Topics
- Jobson Medical Information LLC – Vision Monday
- InStyle
- Washington State Visitors’Guide
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SELF Magazine – "Bad Bargain," by Katherine Eban
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Honorable Mentions:
- Travel + Leisure – "At Home in Provence," by Luke Barr
- BusinessWeek – "They Warned Us," by Robert Berner and Brian Grow
- Entertainment Weekly – "The Crazy Cult of the Room," by Clark Collis
- Entertainment Weekly – "He Knew He'd Done Something Special," by Josh Rottenberg and Christine Spines
- Travel + Leisure – "50 Best New American Restaurants," by Anya von Bremzen
- Every Day With Rachael Ray – "Food A-Z,” by Liz Pearson
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Travel & Leisure – the Hotels Issue
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Honorable Mentions:
- Body+Soul – Smart Woman's Guide to Health/Going Greener
- Midwest Living Magazine
- Harvard Business Review -Managing in the New World, July-August 2009
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. – 60 Days of Summer
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Honorable Mention:
- Library Journal – America's Star Libraries: The LJ Index of Public Library Service
- TechWeb/Internet Evolution – Internet Evolution Video Tutorials
- TechTarget/SearchDataCenter.com – A Step-by-Step Guide to Greening the Data Center
- TechWeb – Internet Evolution Video Tutorials
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• Newsweek Budget Travel – Girlfriend Getaways
• Stars & Stripes – HEROES 2009
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Honorable Mentions:
- Every Day With Rachael Ray – The Insider's Guide to entertaining Outdoors
- Harper's Bazaar – Runway Report
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BusinessWeek – B-Schools Channel
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Honorable Mention:
- Entertainment Weekly – EW.com’s Tony Awards Live Blog
- Meredith Corp – MixingBowl.com
- InStyle.com – Social Media/Twitter
- TechWeb/Internet Evolution – youSpeak/youChat
- Time.com – TIME Social Media
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CNNMoney.com – CNNMoney.com Video Program
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Honorable Mention:
- Entertainment Weekly – Totally Lost
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