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NEW YORK (AFX) - The New Yorker won a contest Tuesday for best magazine cover of the year with a depiction of senior Bush administration officials in a flooded Oval Office in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The best celebrity cover prize was a tie between a Harper's Bazaar cover with a photo of actress Julianne Moore, and Vibe with a picture of Busta Rhymes.
The New Yorker, which is published by Conde Nast Publications, a division of the privately held media company Advance Publications Inc., also won the prize for best news cover for "Watch Your Back Mountain," featuring President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as hapless cowboys.
The awards were announced at an industry conference in Phoenix by Cynthia Leive, the editor of Glamour magazine and the president of the American Society of Magazine Editors as well as Marlene Kahan, the executive director of ASME.
The Economist magazine won the prize for best cover line with "Rocket Man," which ran on a cover picturing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Time magazine won the best concept cover for "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy," which featured a large cowboy hat with the U.S. Presidential logo. Time is published by Time Inc., Time Warner Inc.'s publishing unit. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be
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