Foreign Policy wins 2009 National Magazine Award

Posted By Joshua Keating Friday, May 1, 2009 - 12:31 PM Share

Last night was a great one for FP. Here's the press release:

FOREIGN POLICY has won the magazine industry’s most coveted prize, the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. The announcement came last night at the 44th presentation of The National Magazine Awards, held at Lincoln Center in New York City.

In reaction to the win, FOREIGN POLICY Editor in Chief Moisés Naím said, “The judges who awarded the Ellie are the editors of some of the world’s best magazines. They know what it takes to regularly produce an excellent magazine and that is why this award means so much to all of us here at FP. We are honored and grateful.”

In awarding the “Ellie”, the judges’ remarks said it best: “serious without being pompous, deep without being self-indulgent, FOREIGN POLICY is an essential modern guide to global politics, economics and ideas for people who want to know what’s really happening in an increasingly complicated world. FOREIGN POLICY both simplifies and clarifies complex topics with crisp, insightful writing and clear design.”

The magazine also won the “Ellie” for General Excellence in both 2003 and 2007, and has been nominated six out of the last seven times.

The 2009 finalists were chosen from 1,707 entries submitted by 350 print and online publications. Votes were collected from 275 senior editors, art directors, photo editors, industry veterans, and journalism educators.

FP’s National Magazine Award entry was composed of three FPissues:
·        “A World Without Islam” (January/February 2008)
·        “The Coming Financial Pandemic” (March/April 2008)
·        “The Israel Myth” (May/June 2008).

The award itself (a bronze abstract elephant statue) is on its way back from New York to take its place in the herd.

I don't really have much to add to what Moisés said. This is an incredible honor and we want to thank all of you for reading and making this possible.

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JOHN.VEERA

1:30 PM ET

May 1, 2009

Congratulations!

I've become a huge fan very recently of your magazine.
You guys deserve this award.

MSWARSON

11:04 AM ET

May 2, 2009

Congratulations!

A well deserved prize, congratulations!

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