e-mail received today:
Hi Julia,
I’m pleased to announce East Bay Monthly has been nominated for an Utne Independent Press Award! (thre press release follows…)
UTNE READER ANNOUNCES THE NOMINEES FOR 19th ANNUAL UTNE INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS 2007; 111 STANDOUT PUBLICATIONS MAKE IT TO THE FINAL ROUND
Minneapolis, MN (October 18, 2007) –Utne Reader has officially announced its nominees for the magazine’s 2007 Independent Press Awards, which honors the very best in independent media from the pool of more than 1,300 sources Utne uses to cull its content. Among the 111 nominees selected were old favorites as well as a number of newcomers. Utne will announce the winners in January/February 2008.
In the meantime, Utne Reader’s November/December 2007 issue gives a nod to all the candidates.
The complete list of nominees [and may I say, good company, all of them]:
Magazines (General Excellence)
ColorLines
Columbia Journalism Review
Discover
Film Comment
Foreign Policy
Kyoto Journal
The Sun [Alameda Sun, alas]The Wilson Quarterly
Zines (General Excellence)
Brainscan
Hungover Gourmet
Macaroni
Moonlight Chronicles
Musea
Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore!
Uncle Enos
You Don’t Get There From Here
Best New Publication
The American
Blackfly
Craft
The Crier
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Make/shift
Meatpaper
Polite
Environmental Coverage
Audubon
E Magazine
Earth Island Journal
Environmental Building News
Orion
Sierra
Sustainable Industries Journal
Terrain
International Coverage
Colors
Cultural Survival Quarterly
Foreign Policy
Middle East Report
NACLA Report on the Americas
New Internationalist
Peace Review
Prospect
Health/Wellness Coverage
Alternative Medicine
CR Magazine
The Human Ecologist
Mothering
POZ
Psychology Today
VegNews
Yoga Journal
Local/Regional Coverage
Alberta Views
East Bay Monthly (Bay Area, CA) — woo hoo!
The Independent Weekly (Lafayette, LA)
New England Watershed
Oxford American (Southern U.S.)
Sacramento News & Review
Urbanite (Baltimore)
Westword (Denver)
Political Coverage
The American Prospect
The Chronicle of Higher Education
City Journal
Dissent
Governing
The Nation
The New Republic
Reason
Science/Tech Coverage
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Discover
The Futurist
New Scientist
OnEarth
Science & Spirit
Science News
Technology Review
Social/Cultural Coverage
California
ColorLines
Dollars & Sense
Gastronomica
Greater Good
Guilt & Pleasure
Indian Country Today
The Next American City
Spiritual Coverage
Geez
Islamica
Notre Dame
Parabola
Shambhala Sun
Sojourners
Spirituality & Health
Tikkun
In-Depth/Investigative
Coverage
The Chicago Reporter
Columbia Journalism Review
GeneWatch
High Country News
Intelligence Report
Mother Jones
The Texas Observer
The Village Voice
Best Design
Beyond
Bidoun
Esopus
Heeb
Hyphen
Maisonneuve
Ninth Letter
Theme
Best Writing
The Believer [Geist
L.A. Weekly
Maisonneuve
The New Republic
The Sun [again — I’ve been published there!]Virginia Quarterly Review
The Wilson Quarterly
Arts Coverage
Art Papers
BlackFlash
Bookforum
Film Comment
New Statesman
No Depression
Paste
Raw Vision
Late Lamente