Magazine Subscriptions Blog

A fun alternative to the National Magazine Awards is the Best 50 Magazines as decided by the Tempo staff at the Chicago Tribune. For the last three years they have been compiling their own list of personal favorites.

They ranked the top 10 as: Blender, National Geographic Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Cook’s Illustrated, New York, People, Vogue, People en Espanol and Metropolis.

What’s really interesting reading is the justification that goes along with each magazine.

You can see the full list of Tempo’s 50 Best Magazines, 2005 at the Chicago Tribune website.