Washingtonian had the best showing its ever had last night at the City/Regional Magazine Association Awards, where we were a finalist for eight awards. We won the two top awards—General Excellence and Online Excellence—and took home the Personality Profile Award for the second year in a row. It was an incredibly exciting evening, especially since we won General Excellence for the first time in its 17-year history and snapped a five-year winning streak by Texas Monthly.
I’m especially proud of the winning personality profile, “The Passion of John Wojnowski,” looking at a well-known Washington figure who holds a lonely vigil outside the Vatican embassy on Massachusetts Avenue. Our contributing editor Ariel Sabar brought a beautiful style to it and did some impressive reporting to boot.
I celebrated the awards with a late-night trip to Waffle House (right), with friends from 5280 and D Magazine, and we’ll have a big celebration at the magazine this week too.
The big wins at CRMA come right on the heels of our Beard Award nomination for food coverage, also the first time that the magazine has been nominated for a Beard Award. While I’ve been become convinced that not winning awards isn’t necessarily a sign that you’re not on the right track, winning awards like these is certainly a sign of improvement and that we’re on the right track as a publication.
UPDATE JUNE 6TH: Rounding out this exciting spring, Rachel Manteuffel just won the Livingston Award for National Reporting for her Washingtonian article, “The Things They Leave Behind.” The Livingston, which honors the best writing and reporting by journalists under 35, is the largest all-media, general reporting prize in American journalism.
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