Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired are finalists for National Magazine Awards

Both Bloomberg Businessweek and Wired magazine are finalists in multiple categories for the National Magazine Awards.

Inc. was the only other business-related magazine named a finalist — in the special-interest magazine category.

Bloomberg Businessweek is a finalist in the general excellence category, along with GQ, New York, The New Yorker and Vice.

It is also a finalist in the design category and in the single-topic issue category for its Oct. 10-16 issue focusing on Steve Jobs.

Wired is also a finalist in the design category and the single-topic issue category for its “Underworld” issue from February 2011.

Wired’s other finalist entries are in the section category for “Start” and in the leisure interests category for “The Wired Travel Optimizer” in the October 2011 issue.

The National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 3, at the New York Marriott Marquis.

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.