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Fast Company is finalist for Magazine of the Year

Fast Company was named Thursday as one of five finalists for Magazine of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

The National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 1, at the New York Marriott Marquis.

Bloomberg Businessweek and Money also received two nominations, while Wired received five nominations, including a nomination in the design category.

Bloomberg Businessweek is a finalist in the single-topic category for “Five Years From the Brink,” Sept. 16-22.

Money is a finalist twice in the personal service category for for “The Massachusetts Experiment,” June; “Worker, Heal Thyself,” August; and “Obamacare: Game (Really) On,” October, by Amanda Gengler; and for “101 Ways to Build Wealth,” May.

Wired is a finalist in the leisure interest category for “Crazy Good! Locos Tacos, Umami Burgers, Fake Meat, and the Miracle of Processed Food,” October.

Bloomberg Businessweek and Wired are also finalists in the tablet category, while Wired is a finalist in the multimedia category for “Vision Quest,” by Clive Thompson, September print issue and at wired.com.

Fortune is a finalist in the public interest category for “Dirty Medicine,” May 15, “Maker of Generic Lipitor Pleads Guilty to Selling ‘Adulterated Drugs,’” May 13, and “The Latest to Claim Fraud at Generic Lipitor Maker Ranbaxy: Its Owners,” May 23, by Katherine Eban.

Finally, Wired is a finalist in the feature writing category for “Dangerous,” by Joshua Davis, January.

See all of the finalists 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.