PUB 46 Medal Finalists: Magazine of the Year, Print and Digital

When we called this the Fight of Your Life, we didn't realize that some of the races for Gold and Silver Medals in this year's PUB 46 would be so literal: once again this year, a truly inspiring collection of work comprises the medal finalists, a few times with scoring so competitive that there are ties that can't be broken: Gold and Silver Medals from the following list of Medal Finalists will be announced at the SPD Gala on Friday, May 13th at our favorite, Cipriani's Wall Street, and in some categories, two Silvers or two Golds. On top of that, our most successful Digital competition ever, expanded with more categories including the debut of editorial iPad apps brought us triple the amount of digital entries, and winners, from previous years. Read on for a full list of finalists...


The Magazine of the Year finalists (covers featured above) include: Bloomberg Businessweek, GQ, More, W and WIRED.

Sixty different publications are among the Print medal finalists for SPD Gold this year, including AARP The Magazine, Billboard, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appetit, The Boston Globe, CUT--Leute Machen Kleider, Departures, Details, Earnshaw's, ELLE Collections (UK), ESPN the Magazine, Factory, Field & Stream, Fit Pregnancy, Footwear Plus, Fortune, Four Seasons Magazine, Glamour, Golf Digest, GQ, GreenSource, Hana Hou!, Hemispheres, Martha Stewart Living, Maxim, Men's Health, Men's Journal, More, Moviemaker, National Geographic, New York, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nylon, O the Oprah Magazine, OAK.A.ZINE, Out, Paper Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Psychology Today, Real Simple, Rolling Stone, Runner's World, Seattle Met, Seattle Weekly, SF Weekly, SPIN, Superinteressante, T The New York Times Style Magazine, Texas Monthly, TIME, UD&SE, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, W, WIRED, WIRED Italia, Women's Health and Worth.

The Digital medal finalists for PUB 46 include iheartradio, Marie Claire: Fall Fashion A-Z, Martha Stewart Living: Boundless Beauty, Martha Stewart Living: Martha Makes Cookies, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, O the Oprah Magazine, People, Popular Mechanics, Real Simple: No Time to Cook, W and WIRED.


In addition to the finalists here, over 600 Merit winners were selected by the jury -- and as of this weekend, notification letters to each winning will officially be in the mail. Check back on Tuesday for a full listing of every winning publication. Congratulations to everyone!

Download the full press release here with all the print and digital medal finalists (pdf) (SPOTS results to come in March), and start planning to celebrate at the Gala in May!