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Fortune is finalist for National Magazine Award

Fortune magazine is one of the four finalists in the general excellence category for the 2013 National Magazine Awards, run by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

The other finalists are National Geographic, New York and Wired.

Two business magazines are finalists in the single issue category. They are Bloomberg Businessweek for “Election Issue,” Oct. 15-21, and Fast Company for “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies,” March.

In the leisure interest category, Wired is a finalist for for “How to Be a Geek Dad,” June. Bloomberg Businessweek is also a finalist in the tablet category.

In the public interest category, Consumer Reports is a finalist for “Arsenic in Your Juice,” January, and “Arsenic in Your Food,” November, by Andrea Rock.

Wired is also a finalist in the feature writing category for “Inside the Mansion–and the Mind–of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Internet,” by Charles Graeber; November.

Known as the Ellies — for the Alexander Calder stabile “Elephant” given to each award winner — the National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 2, at the New York Marriott Marquis.

See all 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.

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