Great news, especially since it was in the writing category. Other sites also honored for the quality of their writing include NPR, BBC World Service and Vanity Fair.
Thanks, Webbys.

Does travel make us wiser but less happy, as Thomas Jefferson famously suggested in a letter to a friend?
I consider the question in a short piece on the escalating drug war in Michoacán and my own memories of traveling through the Mexican state, which also happens to be home to the largest avocado-producing region [...]