Over the course of each year, the Utne editorial staff spends countless hours reading not just glossy magazines, but inky tabloids, esoteric newsletters, trade journals, urban newsweeklies, literary zines, radical tracts, and passionate printed matter of all kinds. Of the thousands of publications perused, skimmed, and read cover-to-cover, here are the ones that excite us the most (and are most apt to go missing from the Utne library). To learn more about the nominees, see www.utne.com/uipa. And look for the list of winners in our January/February 2005 issue!
-- The Editors

General Excellence: Magazines

Ascent
The Bark
The Believer
Clamor
Columbia Journalism Review
Governing
Kyoto Journal
Left Turn
New Internationalist
Orion
Prospect
Punk Planet
This
The Washington Monthly

General Excellence: Newsletters

Action for Better Schools
Church and State
The Commercial Alert
Connection to the Americas
CounterPunch
Enough!
The Frugal Environmentalist
Great Lakes Bulletin
The Hightower Lowdown
The Human Ecologist
Lesbian Herstory Archives Newsletter
New Urban News
Our Toxic Times
Progressive Review
Rachel's Environment & Health News
Religion Watch
Toward Freedom
The Wedge Co-op Newsletter