Magazine Journalism


Maggie Ginsberg is a senior editor at Madison Magazine. Before joining the magazine editorial staff full time in 2020, she freelanced for the magazine for nearly 15 years. She wrote cover and feature stories that won statewide and national journalism awards, and a monthly column on startups and innovation until December 2022. Today Maggie’s roles at the magazine are numerous and varied. In addition to serving as editor for many talented freelancers and columnists, she continues to write covers, features and the monthly “Looking Back” department page focused on historical photos. She developed the guest essay section called “The Essayist” and has made it a priority to bring local literary coverage to the magazine including monthly author Q&As and the Sunday Reads newsletter.
Maggie Ginsberg was a long-time freelance writer and regular contributor to various publications before moving full time to Madison Magazine in 2020 and publishing her first novel in 2022. Her writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Country Sampler, Farmhouse Style, Delta Sky magazine, Midwest Living magazine, On Wisconsin magazine, Milwaukee Magazine, Isthmus, Wisconsin Trails, Wisconsin Bride, Rochester Magazine, Grow, Gargoyle, Forward Nursing, UW–Madison College of Letters & Sciences, Forbes.com, Farm Flavor, Badger Forward, and numerous, numerous others. She also served as a staff writer for the Mount Horeb Mail Newspaper from 2006-07, one of the most satisfying and fulfilling years of her career. Maggie’s print contributions for Entrepreneur magazine have included a look at the apprenticeship model for small businesses, how startup founders can thrive in their hometowns, franchisors navigating the pandemic and the labor shortage, and the French Taco craze. She also profiled the No. 1 winner on the Franchise 500 List for three years in a row; Dunkin, Taco Bell and Taco Bell again.
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Magazine Awards
- 2022 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Hard Short Feature (Gold/Silver/Bronze tba in May 2023) for “Borderline Solutions” in Madison Magazine.
- 2022 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards. Best Soft Short Feature (Gold/Silver/Bronze tba in May 2023) for “I’d Rather Be Flying Dogs” in Madison Magazine.
- 2022 National City and Regional Magazine Awards (finalist), Civic Journalism category, for “When Safer At Home Isn’t” feature story in Madison Magazine.
- 2021 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Explanatory Story or Series, (Bronze), for “Where the Grass is Greener” Madison Magazine feature story, with Holly Marley-Henschen’s “Wisconsin’s Original Green Cemetery.”
- 2021 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Pandemic Story in Print (Bronze), for The Lion Hearts cover story in Madison Magazine with Andrea Behling, Maija Inveiss and Celia Young.
- 2020 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Explanatory Story or Series, (Bronze), for Where Our Garbage Goes cover story with Maija Inveiss’s Tips for Low-Waste Living in Madison Magazine
- 2019 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Long Hard Feature Story, Gold, for The Person They Were Meant to Be cover story in Madison Magazine
- 2018 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Public Service Story, Silver, with The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, for Facing the Truth Behind the Statistics cover story in Madison Magazine
- 2017 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Long Hard Feature Story (silver) for To Be Muslim in Madison cover story in Madison Magazine
- 2017 ASJA Excellence in Reporting winner from the American Society of Journalists and Authors for Out of the Shadows cover story in Madison Magazine
- 2017 National City and Regional Magazine Awards (Finalist) in the Civic Journalism category for Out of the Shadows cover story in Madison Magazine
- 2016 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Long Feature Story (bronze) for Out of the Shadows cover story in Madison Magazine
- 2015 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Multi-Story Coverage of a Single Event (silver) for The Days After the Tony Robinson shooting in Madison Magazine
- 2015 NCDJ Notable Entry Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability for Wheeling and Dealing cover story on accessibility
- 2014 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards, Best Long Feature Story (silver) for a Madison Magazine cover story on heroin
- 2008 International Regional Magazine Awards (IRMA), Profiles (silver) for Iditarod Trailblazer in Wisconsin Trails Magazine
- 2008 International Regional Magazine Awards (IRMA) General Features (Gold) for Mission: Mississippi in Wisconsin Trails Magazine
- 2006 Wisconsin Newspaper Association award for a feature on U.S.S. Indianapolis survivor Florian Stamm