2012 National Magazine Awards Finalists: Reporting
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Our Man in Kandahar (Matthieu Aikins, The Atlantic)On a 33-year-old warlord’s past deeds.
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What Happened To Mitrice Richardson? (Mike Kessler, Los AngelesSearching for answers after the mysterious death of a young woman.
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The Apostate (by Lawrence Wright, New Yorker) A screenwriter flees Scientology.
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Getting Bin Laden (Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker) What happened that night in Abbottabad.
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Echoes from a Distant Battlefield (Mark Bowden, Vanity FairThe battle of Wanat, seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.