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Biz magazines shut out of Ellies

None of the business and financial publications among those nominated as National Magazine Awards 2015 finalists won during the award ceremony on Monday.

That’s in contrast to 2014, when Fast Company won the award of Magazine of the Year, the top award.

This year, Harvard Business Review and Inc. were finalists in the special interest magazine category.

Wired was a finalist in the design category.

Bloomberg Businessweek‘s “85th Anniversary Issue,” Dec. 8 was a finalist in the single-topic issue category, while Bloomberg Businessweek’s Etc. section and Inc.’s Made section were finalists in the magazine section category.

Consumer Reports‘ “A Beautiful Death,” in December print edition and at consumerreports.org was a finalist in the multimedia category.

Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Border Lines,” photographs by Kirsten Luce, Dec. 1, was a finalist in the feature photography category.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.