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Bloomberg Businessweek cover wins top biz cover of the year

The Bloomberg Businessweek cover from its Feb. 6-12, 2012, edition was named the top cover among business and technology magazines by the American Society of Magazine Editors on Wednesday.

The other finalists in the category were Bloomberg Businessweek, April 30-May 6, 2012 for “My Life in Private Equity,” and Smithsonian, September 2012, for “The Genius Steve Jobs.”

In addition, Bloomberg Businessweek won for the best cover in the brainiest category for its May 28 – June 3, 2012 edition “Bang Head Here.”

And the weekly glossy also won in the Best Obama category for its Nov. 12-18, 2012, cover “The Next Four Years.”

The magazine was also a finalist in the news and politics category for its Oct. 15-21, 2012, “Election Issue.”

The cover of the Nov. 12, 2012, issue of New York Magazine depicting Hurricane Sandy was chosen by magazine editors as “Cover of the Year” in the seventh annual ASME Best Cover Contest, which was open to all consumer magazines published in calendar year 2012.

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.