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Article: New Yorker Routs Competition at Magazine Awards
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- The Washington Post
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- May 3, 2001
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The New Yorker dominated the National Magazine Awards yesterday,
taking home a record five trophies, the most ever in the 36-year
history of the awards program.
Besides winning the prize for general excellence among magazines
with a circulation of 400,000 to 1 million, the publication also won
in the categories of reviews and criticism, special interests,
profiles and essays.
Editor David Remnick said the awards "pay tribute to the hard
work" of the New Yorker's writers and are especially poignant since
the magazine celebrated its 75th anniversary last year.
The New Yorker "has a past and a damn glorious past, but you never
want it to be self-regarding or a museum," Remnick said. "It has to ...