Backpacker, Esquire, New Yorker, Wired Lead Subdued Ellies - Editorial @ FolioMag.com

Backpacker, Esquire, New Yorker, Wired Lead Subdued Ellies - Editorial @ FolioMag.com: "The 44th annual National Magazine Awards—a normally boozy, raucous affair—were held during a gala ceremony at Jazz @ Lincoln Center here Thursday.

But unlike other years, given the seemingly endless waves of layoffs, magazine closings and reports of hemorrhaging ad pages that have rocked the industry in the last 12 months, this didn’t feel like a celebration.

Backpacker, Esquire, Wired and the New Yorker led the awards field, winning three Ellies each."