Memphis Magazine Wins Three National Awards!

Memphis magazine was a big winner at the 23rd Annual National City and Regional Magazine Awards competition on Monday, June 2nd, at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Memphis magazine was awarded the Gold award for General Excellence in the magazines under 30,000 monthly circulation category. The Silver was awarded to Traverse, Northern Michigan's magazine, and the Bronze to Madison Magazine, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Memphis magazine was awarded the Bronze award for Cover Design for the June 2007 issue. The Gold in that category was awarded to Texas Monthly magazine, and the Silver to Los Angeles magazine.

Memphis Business Quarterly, a business magazine published four times a year by the publishers of Memphis magazine, was awarded the Gold award for Best Ancillary Publication. Silver was awarded to Evansville Living, a special publication of Evansville (IN) magazine, and Bronze was awarded to Berkshire Living Home and Garden, a special publication of Berkshire Living (NY) magazine.

“It’s always an honor to be recognized,” said Mary Helen Randall, editor. “We work hard throughout the year to produce the best work we can. Seeing Memphis listed along with magazines like Los Angeles magazine, the Washingtonian, and Texas Monthly lets us know we're doing something right. We're certainly in good company.”

Go to the Poynter website for more information about the CRMA awards and this year's winners. For more information about the City and Regional Magazine Association, please visit their website.

Founded in 1976, Memphis magazine recently celebrated its thirtieth year of enlightening, informing, and entertaining readers with an editorial and design relaunch.

Thanks to dedicated local ownership and a staff committed to journalistic excellence, Memphis has established a tradition of independence and editorial quality second to none in the Mid-South. Over the past 32 years, Memphis has won scores of national and regional awards for editorial excellence, including the Society of Professional Journalists' Distinguished Public Service Award in 1984. (Memphis is the smallest-circulation magazine ever to have won this honor.)

Every month, 55,000 readers look to Memphis magazine to provide them with in-depth coverage of every aspect of life in the Bluff City. Those readers represent the best and brightest in our community, the movers and shakers who help make this city - the corporate home of FedEx, the cultural capital of the Mississippi Delta, and, of course, the birthplace of rock-and-roll and the home of the blues - the very special place it is today.

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Our editorial staff:

Mary Helen Randall, Editor
Michael Finger, Senior Editor
Marilyn Sadler, Senior Editor
Frank Murtaugh, Managing Editor
Bianca Phillips, Entertainment Editor
Preston Lauterbach, Staff Writer

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Our art/design staff:

Hannah Johnson, Art Director
Christopher Myers, Advertising Art Director

Our circulation staff:

Brenda Eoste, Circulation Manager

Our sales staff:

Jeffrey Goldberg, Associate Publisher - Advertising
Penelope Huston Baer, Advertising Director
Joy Bateman, Senior Account Executive
Beverly Mattingly, Account Executive
Jessica Goske, Account Executive

Our marketing/online staff:

Molly Willmott, Director of New Media
Matt Writt, Promotions and Online Coordinator
Kerri Mahoney, Interactive Design Director


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Our office address:
Contemporary Media, Inc.
460 Tennessee Street, Suite 200
Memphis, TN 38103
901.521.9000 telephone
901.521.0129 fax

Kenneth Neill, Publisher
Jeffrey Goldberg, Associate Publisher - Advertising
Bruce VanWyngarden, Associate Publisher/Editorial
Molly Willmott, Director of New Media
Dovye Perriguey, Comptroller
Joe Carey, IT Manager