NEW YORK, NY (April 30, 2009)— Familiar names topped the honorees at the 44th Annual National Magazine Awards.

Reader’s Digest, Field & Stream, Wired and Texas Monthly took the highest honors for General Excellence at the National Magazine Awards.

In the individual categories, Esquire took home awards for Feature Writing, Personal Service and Leisure Writing, while The New Yorker won for Reviews and Criticism, Fiction and Photo Portfolio.

Presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the National Magazine Awards “honor print and online magazines that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative editorial techniques, journalistic enterprise and imaginative design.”

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