Bloomberg Businesweek, Inc. win National Magazine Awards

Bloomberg Businessweek and Inc. both won general interest awards Thursday night in the annual National Magazine Awards.

Bloomberg Businessweek won in the general excellence category for general interest magazines, beating out GQ, New York and The New Yorker. The category honors the best of the large-circulation weeklies, biweeklies and general-interest monthlies. The magazine’s editor is Josh Tyrangiel.

Inc. won in the general excellence category for active- and special-interest magazines, beating out The Fader, Field & Stream, Men’s Health and Popular Mechanics. The category honors the best of the magazines serving targeted audiences. The magazine’s editor is Jane Berentson.

Time was named Magazine of the Year. New York won three awards, and The New Yorker won two. Sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the National Magazine Awards are the preeminent awards for magazine journalism.

See all of the winners here.

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.