National Magazine Awards

[YankeeFan]

Tonight in NYC.

Live tweeting here: http://twitter.com/#!/@foliomag

Hastag: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23ellies

The James Beard Awards (for restaurants/chefs) are also in New York tonight. My twitter feed is an odd mix.

Has anyone heard from Jones? Could be a tough night for him.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Has anyone heard from Jones? Could be a tough night for him.

@MySecondEmpire Oh, are the National Magazine Awards tonight, too? Jeez, I had no idea. Sure glad I can drink alone at home instead! #eeyoreface

 

[YankeeFan]

That's actually why I threw in that line.

Jones has a good sense of humor.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I am really glad that Atul Gawande won the public service category for "Letting Go." It was the most important magazine story, I feel, that I read this past year. A tweet about "death panels" gets read by probably 1,000 times as many people as will read a 5,000-word piece in The New Yorker, but if you care about nuance and multiple sides to an issue, then you owe it to yourself to read that piece.

 

[Boom_70]

I am really glad that Atul Gawande won the public service category for "Letting Go." It was the most important magazine story, I feel, that I read this past year. A tweet about "death panels" gets read by probably 1,000 times as many people as will read a 5,000-word piece in The New Yorker, but if you care about nuance and multiple sides to an issue, then you owe it to yourself to read that piece.

Gawande and "important" magazine stories are almost redundant.

When I see his byline show up in my weekly New Yorker I will always read.

 

[YankeeFan]

I am really glad that Atul Gawande won the public service category for "Letting Go." It was the most important magazine story, I feel, that I read this past year. A tweet about "death panels" gets read by probably 1,000 times as many people as will read a 5,000-word piece in The New Yorker, but if you care about nuance and multiple sides to an issue, then you owe it to yourself to read that piece.

I haven't read it yet, but with that kind of recommendation, I will.

Here it is for anyone else who wants to read it:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

 

[Dick Whitman]

I am really glad that Atul Gawande won the public service category for "Letting Go." It was the most important magazine story, I feel, that I read this past year. A tweet about "death panels" gets read by probably 1,000 times as many people as will read a 5,000-word piece in The New Yorker, but if you care about nuance and multiple sides to an issue, then you owe it to yourself to read that piece.

Gawande and "important" magazine stories are almost redundant.

When I see his byline show up in my weekly New Yorker I will always read.

Boom, have you read "Complications" or "The Checklist Manifesto"? The latter arose from a New Yorker article (and you can even see seeds of it in "Complications").

What is great about him is how non-partisan his arguments are. I feel like I am getting it straight when I read his thoughts on health care.

 

[Boom_70]

I am really glad that Atul Gawande won the public service category for "Letting Go." It was the most important magazine story, I feel, that I read this past year. A tweet about "death panels" gets read by probably 1,000 times as many people as will read a 5,000-word piece in The New Yorker, but if you care about nuance and multiple sides to an issue, then you owe it to yourself to read that piece.

Gawande and "important" magazine stories are almost redundant.

When I see his byline show up in my weekly New Yorker I will always read.

Boom, have you read "Complications" or "The Checklist Manifesto"? The latter arose from a New Yorker article (and you can even see seeds of it in "Complications").

What is great about him is how non-partisan his arguments are. I feel like I am getting it straight when I read his thoughts on health care.

Have not read Complications or Check List but both in my pile of must reads.

Check List is really intriguing. I'm more of a fly by seat of pants type that always wants to move to list driven style.

What Gawande seems to accomplish in a day certainly makes a good argument for check list.

 

[dreunc1542]

I am really glad that Atul Gawande won the public service category for "Letting Go." It was the most important magazine story, I feel, that I read this past year. A tweet about "death panels" gets read by probably 1,000 times as many people as will read a 5,000-word piece in The New Yorker, but if you care about nuance and multiple sides to an issue, then you owe it to yourself to read that piece.

I haven't read it yet, but with that kind of recommendation, I will.

Here it is for anyone else who wants to read it:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

That was a fantastic read. Thanks for pointing it out, ****. I really need to get a subscription to New Yorker.

 

[YankeeFan]

I really need to get a subscription to New Yorker.

iPad subscriptions available now:

Apple, which released the iPad last March, has been busy rounding up publishers to help make its tablet even more appealing to consumers. Last week, Hearst Magazines announced a deal for iPad subscriptions to some of its magazines that will begin in July and Time Inc. made an arrangement for subscribers to get some magazines free, but Condé Nast is the first major publisher to begin a subscription plan on the iPad for one of its magazines (previously readers had to download each issue individually).

And the iPad subscription offer is quite aggressive: $5.99 for one month (for four issues) and $59.99 for a full year. But even more surprising, a bundled version of print and digital subscriptions, is available for $6.99 a month, or $69.99 a year. (Current print subscribers can sign in to the iPad version at no additional charge.)

Subscriptions on the iPad to The New Yorker went on sale early Monday, and subscriptions for other Condé Nast magazines, including Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, Allure, Wired, Self and GQ, will become available in the coming weeks. The Condé Nast-Apple deal was first reported in The New York Post last week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/business/media/10conde.html?hpw