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Celebrating the best of city and regional magazines

Columbia, MO-City and Regional Magazine Association announced 28 winning magazines at its 16th Annual City Magazine Awards at the association's Annual Conference May 7, 2001 in Minneapolis.

Professional journalists, designers and photographers from magazines around the country, along with University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism School faculty, judged the more than 880 entries submitted for this year's contest. The annual City Magazine Awards contest is open to CRMA's 86 member and 27 associate publications, as well as other qualifying city and regional publications.

This year, 63 gold, bronze or silver awards were given in 21 categories. The awards recognize excellence in design, writing, feature stories, photography and special issues.

Philadelphia Magazine won the most individual awards, earning recognition in six categories: food/dining criticism, regular column, reporting, personality profile, cover and designer of the year.

Other top winners include Boston Magazine and Texas Monthly, both winning five awards. Indianapolis Monthly, Yankee, Milwaukee Magazine and Chicago Magazine took home four awards each.

The ceremony's most-secret awards, whose winners aren't notified before the conference, are the general-excellence awards. The general-excellence entries are divided into three circulation-based categories.

This year's general-excellence winners are: Cincinnati, Memphis, 64, D Magazine, Columbus Monthly, Indianapolis Monthly, Texas Monthly, Boston Magazine and Atlanta.

For more information, contact:
Prof. Danita Allen or Executive Director C. James Dowden
University of Missouri City and Regional Magazine Association
314 Lee Hills Hall 4929 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 428
Columbia, MO 65211 Los Angeles, CA 90010
TEL: 573/882-4710 TEL: 323/937-5514
FAX: 573/884-1870 FAX: 323/937-0959

City and Regional Magazine Association judges

A team was comprised of University of Missouri School of Journalism faculty and practicing magazine professionals to judge the City and Regional Magazine Association annual awards. Three judges per award category scored entries on a 100-point scale. The School of Journalism then collected, tallied and averaged the judges' scores for each category. This year's judges were:

University of Missouri faculty

Scott Fosdick, assistant professor Jody Sowell, assistant professor
Judy Bolch, professor George Kennedy, Missourian ME
Brant Houston, executive director, IRE Daryl Moen, professor
Jan Colbert, associate professor Steve Weinberg, professor
Zoe Smith, associate professor David Rees, associate professor
Jennifer Moeller, assistant professor Jim Sterling, professor
Don Ranly, professor Danita Allen, associate professor
Renee Kratzer, adjunct instructor

Practicing professionals

Anne Bussman, Retail Pharmacy News George Hodgman, free-lancer
Jessica Royer, CITY 2000, free-lancer Lettie Teague, Food & Wine
Karen Gerboth, Wittenberg Magazine Ken Fuson, Des Moines Register
Seth Wickersham, ESPN Magazine Heather Morgan, National Geographic
Traveler Jason Best, Gourmet Mara Reinstein, Teen People
Amanda Hinnant, Real Simple Tom McGrath, Men's Health
Steve Friedman, free-lancer Cheryl Brown, Gourmet
Ralph Groom, Sports Illustrated for Women Monica Moses, The Poynter Institute
Greg Paul, Brady & Paul Communications Ingrid Sturgis, formerly with Savoy
Chris Ocken, Ocken Photography Casey Shaw, USA Weekend
Mindy Berry, SELF Magazine Dick Sowienski, Better Homes & Gardens
Ted Spiker, Men's Health Reginald Stuart, Knight Ridder
Shaila Williams, Country Home George Curry, syndicated columnist
Tracey Bumpus, Lifeway Christian Resources Carolyn Gatto, Woman's Day special-interest publications

2000 CRMA Contest Results

1. General Criticism

Gold: New Orleans Magazine "Tone Language"
"Family Value"
"A Culture Lost & Found"

(TIE FOR SECOND PLACE)

Silver: Milwaukee Magazine "The Ringmaster"
"Fred, Jesus and the Devil"
"A Taste of Vinegar"

Silver: New Orleans "Jazz With a Cinematic Spin"
"On the Trail of Life"
"The 400 Block of South Rampart"

2. Food/Dining Criticism

Gold: Philadelphia Magazine "Foaming at the Mouth"
"The Chocolate Doctorate"
"Hot Dogs and Happy Cakes"

Silver: Vancouver Magazine "We Are What We Ate"
"Spaghetti Western"
"The Food Chain"

Bronze: Boston Magazine "Ritzy Business"
"The Love Shack"
"Med School"

3. Regular Column

Gold: Texas Monthly Paul Burka

Silver: Philadelphia Magazine Sandy Hingston

Bronze: D Magazine Jeff Bowden

4. Reporting

Gold: Philadelphia Magazine "The Crash"

Silver: Phoenix Magazine "Phoenix PD Blues" I & II

Bronze: Chicago Magazine "Code of a Killer"

5. Personality Profile

Gold: Boston Magazine "Lord Jim"

Silver: Philadelphia Magazine "It Came From Philadelphia"

Bronze: Los Angeles Magazine "The Last Tycoon"

6. Feature Story

Gold: Milwaukee Magazine "Not On Our Block"

Silver: Milwaukee Magazine "The Sinking of the Linde-E"

Bronze: Las Vegas Life "Losing Ginger"

7. Writer of the Year

Gold: Chicago Magazine Robert Kurson

Silver: Las Vegas Life Scott Dickensheets

Bronze: Milwaukee Magazine Kurt Chandler

8. Excellence in Writing

Gold: Texas Monthly April

Silver: Phoenix Magazine April

Bronze: Las Vegas Life July

9. Spread Design

Gold: Greenwich Magazine "Lyme Disease Gets Under Our Skin"

Silver: Chicago Magazine "Rain & Shine"

Bronze: Boston Magazine "State of Grace"

10. Feature Design

Gold: Yankee Magazine "The Same Ax Twice"

Silver: Buffalo Spree Magazine "Espirit de Season"

Bronze: Indianapolis Monthly "Imperial Wizard"

11. Photo Essay

Gold: Palm Beach Illustrated "River of Dreams"

Silver: Yankee Magazine "One Wise Woman"

Bronze: Diablo Magazine "24/7"

12. Cover

Gold: Indianapolis Monthly March

Silver: Philadelphia Magazine February

Bronze: Diablo September

13. Designer of the Year

Gold: Philadelphia Magazine Tim Baldwin

Silver: Yankee Magazine J. Porter

Bronze: HOUR Detroit Celeste Cueter

14. Excellence in Design

Gold: Yankee Magazine July/August

Silver: Boston Magazine October

Bronze: San Francisco Magazine July

15. Reader Service

Gold: Baltimore Magazine "Kiss Your Boss Goodbye"

Silver: Chicago Magazine "The Best Places to Work"

Bronze: Pittsburgh Magazine "Summer Survival"

16. Leisure/Lifestyle Interests

Gold: D Magazine "The Top Taste Awards"

Silver: HOUR Detroit "Home: Regeneration"

Bronze: Indianapolis Monthly "Great Expectations---and the
Great Unknown"

17. Civic Journalism

Gold: San Diego Magazine "The Millennium Project"

Silver: Pittsburgh Magazine "Domestic Disease"

Bronze: Texas Monthly "Free Greg Ott!"

18. Special Issues

Gold: Cincinnati Magazine December 1999

Silver: Texas Monthly May

Bronze: Louisville Magazine March

19. General Excellence I

Gold: Cincinnati Magazine

Silver: Memphis Magazine

Bronze: 64 Magazine

20. General Excellence II

Gold: D Magazine

Silver: Columbus Monthly

Bronze: Indianapolis Monthly

21. General Excellence III

Gold: Texas Monthly

Silver: Boston Magazine

Bronze: Atlanta Magazine