The ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors), earlier this week, announced the National Magazine Awards 2012 finalists, a list representing fifty-two national magazine titles nominated in twenty categories. Leading the pack in 2012 are New York and The New Yorker, both with six nominations overall, as well as the New York Times Magazine, with three nominations in the categories of news and documentary photography, feature photography, and feature writing.

Aperture is please to announce that our own Aperture magazine has again been nominated as an ASME finalist, in the General Excellence category of Though-Leader Magazines, honoring literary, scholarly and professional publications, as well as general interest magazines. View the full list of 2012 finalist and honorees here.

The 2012 National Magazine Awards will be presented on May 3rd, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. The 2012 judges include 345 magazine editors, art directors and photography editors as well as journalism educators.

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››The ASME and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced the winners of the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media on March 20, 2012. More than 300 editors, publishers and guests attended a lunch at the Grand Hyatt New York to honor the fifty-five finalists and eleven winners. View the winners’ gallery for the Digital Media honorees here.

››The latest issue of Aperture (#206) is now available.

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The American Society of Magazine Editors has announced Aperture magazine as a finalist for the 2010 National Magazine Awards. Aperture, along with Architect, Military History, The Paris Review, and San Francisco Magazine, has been nominated in the general excellence category, for publications with a circulation under 100,000. The magazine has been nominated six years in a row for this award, which honors how well each publication fulfills its editorial mission. Winners will be announced on April 22nd. To see full list of nominees, click here.