The magazine's Samantha Power -- who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for her book "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" -- won the reporting award for "Dying in Darfur," an article on genocide in Sudan. The reviews award went to art critic Adam Gopnik. The profile award went to Ian Parker for "The Gift," on a man who gave a kidney to a virtual stranger.
And the magazine's public interest award went to investigative reporter Seymour Hersh for three articles on the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Hersh, who won the 1970 Pulitzer for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, won the same category last year for other Iraq-related exposés.
New Yorker editor David Remnick said that "Sy Hersh winning for Abu Ghraib was especially sweet" because Hersh's stories were attacked by a Pentagon official as "crap" when they were published. "Sy Hersh is fearless and a national treasure," Remnick added.
Sports Illustrated won the award for leisure interests for its Olympics preview issue. BabyTalk won the personal service award for a story on breastfeeding. Esquire took the feature writing award for a story on the space station astronauts. Newsweek was honored for best single-topic issue, "How He Did It," an in-depth account of President Bush's reelection campaign. Time collected the photo essay award for James Nachtwey's pictures from Darfur. And Gourmet won for photography.
The Atlantic won the award for fiction, which is a tad ironic because the magazine recently announced that it would no longer run fiction, except in one annual issue.
In addition to the New Yorker and Martha Stewart Weddings, four other magazines won for general excellence. Print, a visual design mag, won for publications with circulation under 100,000; Dwell, a shelter mag, won for circulation between 100,000 and 250,000; Wired, the technology mag, won in the 500,000-to-1 million category.
And Glamour -- the woman's mag whose current cover screams "Whoa! The 15 secret sex fantasies every guy has" -- won in the largest circulation category, over 2 million.
The judges likened Glamour to "an outspoken, spirited, and slightly kooky but wise best friend."
That pleased Cynthia Leive, Glamour's editor-in-chief, who confessed that when she heard the news she blurted out a bad word.
Which bad word?
"I can't say that," she said. "It was holy something."
Leive was speaking by phone from Glamour's Manhattan offices, but her words were nearly drowned out by the cacophony of revelry.
"There's a big party with margaritas going on behind me," she explained.
