The Best American Magazine Writing 2012

The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Sid Holt is chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors and the former editor in chief of Adweek Magazines. During his seven years as managing editor of Rolling Stone, the magazine was nominated for four and won one National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

Terry McDonell began his career in magazines in the mid-1970s. He was one of the launch editors of Outside and the founding editor of Rocky Mountain before joining Rolling Stone as managing editor in 1981, then Newsweek as assistant managing editor in 1983. He launched Smart in 1984 and later edited Esquire, Sports Afield, and Men's Journal before overseeing the relaunch of Us as a weekly in 1999. Appointed managing editor of Sports Illustrated in 2002, he became editor of the Time Inc. Sports Group in 2005. He was elected to the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2012.

Introduction, by Terry McDonell, editor, Time Inc. Sports Group
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors
Joplin!, by Luke Dittrich
The Apostate, by Lawrence Wright
Excerpts from The Encyclopedia of 9/11, by New York Magazine
Wall Street Isn't Winning--It's Cheating and Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment and How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests, by Matt Taibbi
Too Much Information, by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Our Man in Kandahar, by Matthieu Aikins
Arms and the Dudes, by Guy Lawson
The Invisible Army, by Sarah Stillman
The Secret That Kills Four Women a Day, by Liz Brody
The Signature Wound, by Bob Drury
Fractured, by Susan Ince
Dewayne Dedmon's Leap of Faith, by Chris Ballard
Paper Tigers, by Wesley Yang
Game of Her Life, by Tim Crothers
He Is Anonymous, by Tim Rogers
Looking for a Model and The Right to Write and Content Management, by William Zinsser
Duck Tape and America's Next Top Weiner and The End of Kardaschadenfreude, by Joel Stein
The Hox River Window, by Karen Russell
When the King Saved God and From Abbottabad to Worse and Unspoken Truths, by Christopher Hitchens
National Magazine Awards 2012 Finalists and Winners
National Magazine Awards for Digital Media 2012 Finalists and Winners
National Magazine Awards 2012 Judges
ASME Board of Directors, 2011–12
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