AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCES NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2024 NOMINEES

Finalists and winners of ASME Award for Fiction, ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration and ASME NEXT Awards also named; awards to be presented in New York on April 2

New York (February 15, 2024)—The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) is today announcing the finalists for the 59^th annual National Magazine Awards. One of the most prestigious journalism-awards programs in the United States, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by ASME in association with the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine storytelling published in any medium, including newspapers.

ASME will announce the winners of the 2024 National Magazine Awards on Tuesday, April 2, at Terminal 5 in New York City. The finalists and winners of the ASME Award for Fiction, the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration and the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 will also be honored.

“The astonishing variety of this year’s National Magazine Award nominees demonstrates the vitality of magazine journalism, whether the outlet is a print magazine, a website, a podcast or even a newspaper,” said Sidney Holt, the executive director of ASME. “Along with the finalists and winners for the ASME Award for Fiction, the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration and the ASME NEXT Awards, these honorees underscore the continuing importance of magazine storytelling to American society.”

More than 60 media organizations are nominated for National Magazine Awards in 17 categories this year. Twenty-one titles received multiple nominations, led by New York and The New Yorker with eight each, followed by The New York Times Magazine with seven, The Atlantic with six and ProPublica with five. The Marshall Project, Men’s Health, Mother Jones and T: The New York Times Style Magazine each received three nominations.

Two nominations were received by 12 media organizations, including The American Scholar; Audubon; Bon Appétit; Eater; Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) for partnerships with High Country News and Switchyard; Harper’s Magazine; High Country News, including once for its partnership with FERN; Rest of World; Texas Monthly; The Verge; and Virginia Quarterly Review. The Washington Post was also named as a finalist twice, including once for a partnership with The Trace.

Also nominated for National Magazine Awards this year are 1843 Magazine; Allure; bioGraphic; Bloomberg Businessweek; Business Insider; Consumer Reports; Cook’s Illustrated; Cosmopolitan; Ear Hustle for Radiotopia from PRX; Evermore; Harvard Business Review; Highsnobiety; The Intercept; Invisible Institute with USG Audio; Kazoo; National Geographic; The New York Review of Books; New York Times Opinion; The Outlaw Ocean Project with The New Yorker; Oxford American; Philadelphia; Pitchfork; Polygon; Serial Productions with The New York Times, ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio; Slate; STAT; Switchyard for its partnership with FERN; The Texas Tribune with ProPublica; The Trace for its partnership with The Washington Post; Travel + Leisure; Vanity Fair; and The Yale Review. Nominated for partnerships with The Marshall Project are AL.com, The Frontier, The Guardian, Mississippi Today, The Post and Courier and WBUR.

ASME is also announcing today the finalists and winners of the ASME Award for Fiction, the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration and the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30.

The winner of the ASME Award for Fiction for the second year in a row and for the third time since the award was established in 2018 is The Paris Review. The finalists included American Short Fiction, The Georgia Review, Harper’s Magazine and The New Yorker.

Established in 2020, the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration are presented in 10 categories, recognizing the unique importance of design, photography and illustration to the practice of magazine journalism. The winners this year are The Atlantic for Best Print Illustrations; GQ for Best Service and Lifestyle Photographs; The Marshall Project for Best Digital Illustrations; National Geographic for Best Profile Photographs; The New York Times Magazine for Best Print Design; New York Times Opinion for Best News and Entertainment Story; and The New Yorker for Best Digital Design, Best News and Entertainment Photographs, Best Service and Lifestyle Story and Best Illustrated Story.

The finalists for ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration included Allure, The Atavist, Bon Appétit, Bustle, Eater, ELLE, Foreign Affairs, Grow by Ginkgo, High Country News, HuffPost, Kazoo, National Parks, New York, Road & Track, Rolling Stone, Switchyard, Texas Monthly, TIME, Travel + Leisure and The Verge.

The ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 honor outstanding achievement by early-career print and digital journalists. Candidates must be affiliated with a magazine or website edited by an ASME member. The recipients of the ninth annual awards are Vulture’s Rebecca Alter; The Hollywood Reporter’s Lovia Gyarkye; Variety’s Haley Kluge; New York Magazine’s Isabela Quintero; and MIT Technology Review’s Zeyi Yang.

The 2024 National Magazine Awards will be presented at Terminal 5, on West 56^th Street in New York City, from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2. 

Ticket sales provide support for the Osborn Elliott Scholarship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Named in honor of the former Newsweek editor, ASME president and Columbia Journalism School dean, the scholarship is awarded to students who intend to pursue careers in magazine journalism. 

To purchase tickets, visit nationalmagazineawards.org.

National Magazine Awards 2024 Finalists

1. General Excellence, News, Sports and Entertainment

• 1843 Magazine
• The Atlantic
• New York
• The New York Times Magazine
• The New Yorker

2. General Excellence, Service and Lifestyle

• Cook's Illustrated
• Cosmopolitan
• Eater
• Highsnobiety
• Men's Health

3. General Excellence, Special Interest

• Audubon
• Evermore
• The Marshall Project
• Pitchfork
• STAT

4. General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics

• The American Scholar
• Mother Jones
• Oxford American
• Rest of World
• The Yale Review

5. Design

• Bon Appétit for April print issue; “Make Your Own Noodles,” April 25 at bonappetit.com; and “Best New Restaurants,” October
• Harvard Business Review for July–August print issue; “Create Stories That Change Your Company's Culture,” September–October; and “Reskilling in the Age of AI,” September–October
• National Geographic for “The Future Is Folded, February print cover; “Why We Explore,” July; and “Space,” October
• Rest of World for “40 Companies That Are Beating the West,” October 5; “How AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes,” October 10; and “China, the World’s Shopping Cart,” November 14
• The Verge for “The Year Twitter Died,” including “Extremely Softcore” and “The Great Scrollback of Alexandria,” December 12

6. Photography

• bioGraphic for “The Newt Normal,” photographs by Anton Sorokin, January 13; “From Weed to Wonder,” photographs by Shane Gross, March 11; and “The Galaxy in the Woods,” photographs by Radim Schreiber, July 5
• New York for “Let's Have a Real Conversation About Barbara Walters,” photographs by Brigitte Lacombe, March 13-26; July 3-16 print issue; and “The Power Issue,” October 23-November 5
• New York Times Opinion for “Scenes From Turkey After the Earthquake,” photographs by Sabiha Çimen, March 24; “What a Motherless Son Knows About Fatherhood,” new photographs by Trent Davis Bailey, June 16; and “Addiction Ravaged My Family and Tribe. I’m Fighting to Get Them Back.,” photographs by Justin Maxon, November 15, all at nytimes.com/opinion
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine for “Food Matters,” February 10, May 8 and August 22 at nytimes.com/t-magazine; “Travel” print issue, May 14; and “Fall’s Sinuous New Silhouettes,” photographs by Bharat Sikka, August 9 at nytimes.com/t-magazine
• Virginia Quarterly Review for Spring/Summer print issue; Fall print issue; and “The Taboo Medicine,” photographs by Lynn Johnson, Winter

7. Podcasting

• Ear Hustle for Radiotopia from PRX for “San Quentin: The Magazine,” hosted by Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
• Invisible Institute with USG Audio for three episodes of “You Didn’t See Nothin,” hosted by Yohance Lacour: “Episode 1: Young Black Male,” “Episode 2: Holler If Ya Hear Me” and “Episode 3: Heartz of Men”
• The Marshall Project with WBUR for three episodes of “Violation,” reported and hosted by Beth Schwartzapfel: “Episode 1: Two Sons, Lost,” “Episode 2: Bad Seed” and “Episode 7: No Safe Place”
• Serial Productions and The New York Times with ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio for three episodes of “The Kids of Rutherford County,” reported and hosted by Meribah Knight: “Episode 1: The Egregious Video,” “Episode 2: ‘What the Hell Are You People Doing?’” and “Episode 3: ‘Would You Like to Sue the Government?’”
• Slate for three episodes of “Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas,” hosted by Joel Anderson: "Episode 1: America's Blackest Child," “Episode 2: Smiling Faces” and “Episode 4: A National Disgrace”

8. Video

• Business Insider for “How Dogs Are Trained to Attack US Prisoners,” by Hannah Beckler, Olivia Nemec, Robert Leslie, Noah Lewis and Erica Berenstein
• Mother Jones for “Reading Racist Comments,” “‘White People’” and “MLK on Israel-Palestine: In His Own Words,” by Garrison Hayes
• The New Yorker for “Swift Justice,” by Victor Blue and Ross McDonnell, and “Nina & Irena,” by Daniel Lombroso
• Polygon for “Gang, We’ve Gotta Stop Killing JFK,” by Simone de Rochefort, “What Are VTubers, and Why Do I Love Them?” by Christina “XTINA GG” Gayton, and “Video Games Explain the Supply Chain Crisis,” by Clayton Ashley
• ProPublica and The New Yorker for “The Night Doctrine,” by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral

9. Single-Topic Issue

• The Atlantic for “To Reconstruct the Nation”
• Kazoo for “The Girl Power Issue”
• New York for “The War and New York”
• Switchyard with Food and Environment Reporting Network for “Food Issue”
• Texas Monthly for “Special 50^th Anniversary Issue: Icons”

10. Service Journalism

• Allure for “26 Women Get Real About Freezing Their Eggs” and “‘I Felt Misled’: Are Women Getting the Full Truth About Egg Freezing?” by Paige Stables, with three examples of social media, “Egg Freezing Success Rates,” “Egg Freezing by Numbers” and “Five Women Break the Ice on What It Was Really Like to Freeze Their Eggs”
• Eater for “The Eater College Dining Plan,” with two examples of social media, “3 Spots to Eat Near Howard University” and “The Zodiac Signs as Classic College Meals”
• Men’s Health for “The Human Cost of the Sports Betting Boom,” feature story by Rachel Epstein, with one example of social media, “Sports Betting Boom”
• New York for “The Transgender Family Handbook,” reporting by Amelia Schonbek, Erin Schwartz, Camille Squires, Laura Thompson, Angelina Chapin, Tiana Randall, Marisa Carroll and Jordan Larson
• The New York Times Magazine for “A Vicious Cycle,” by Susan Dominus

11. Lifestyle Journalism

• Audubon for "Business Is Blooming," by Kevin Dupzyk
• Bon Appétit for “Welcome to Appalachia” and “Appalachia Anew”
• New York for “When She Was 'It,'” introductory essay by Matthew Schneier
• Philadelphia for “All Hail the Hoagie”
• Travel + Leisure for “The Food + Adventure Issue”

12. Reporting

• Consumer Reports for “‘Nobody Should Lose Their Child Over a Toy,’” by Lauren Kirchner
• The Intercept for two articles by Nick Turse: “Secret Pentagon Investigation Found No One at Fault in Drone Strike That Killed Woman and 4-Year-Old” and “Advocates Demand Compensation for U.S. Drone Strike Victims in Somalia”
• The New Yorker for “The Fugitive Princesses,” by Heidi Blake
• ProPublica with The Texas Tribune for “Someone Tell Me What to Do,” by Lomi Kriel and Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Jinitzail Hernández, The Texas Tribune
• The Trace and The Washington Post for “One of America’s Favorite Handguns Is Allegedly Firing on Its Owners,” by Champe Barton and Tom Jackman

13. Feature Writing

• The Atlantic for “Jenisha From Kentucky,” by Jenisha Watts
• Harper’s Magazine for “Four Men,” by William T. Vollmann
• The New York Times Magazine for “What Can't Be Unseen,” by Jay Kirk
• The Verge and New York for “AI Is a Lot of Work,” by Josh Dzieza
• The Washington Post for “The Call of Tokitae,” by Caitlin Gibson

14. Profile Writing

• The Atlantic for “Inside the Meltdown at CNN,” by Tim Alberta
• Men's Health for “The Scars of Uvalde,” by Joshua St. Clair
• New York for “You Are Not a Parrot,” by Elizabeth Weil
• The New York Times Magazine for “In Search of Kamala Harris,” by Astead W. Herndon
• The New Yorker for “Money on the Wall,” by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Texas Monthly for “Hellhounds on His Trail,” by Michael Hall
• Vanity Fair for “The Great Pretender,” by Lili Anolik

15. Columns and Essays

• The Atlantic for “The Ones We Sent Away,” by Jennifer Senior
• High Country News for three articles by Nina McConigley: “Say Rabbit,” “Horse Girls” and “Dino Time”
• Mother Jones for “Yes in Our Backyards,” by Bill McKibben
• The New York Times Magazine for “Lonnie and Me,” by Mitchell S. Jackson
• The New Yorker for “What Am I Without You?” by Jiayang Fan
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine for two articles by Mark Harris: “Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?” and “Yes, These Gays Are Trying to Murder You”
• Virginia Quarterly Review for “As They Like It,” by Nicole Graev Lipson

16. Reviews and Criticism

• The American Scholar for “Alphabet of Despair,” by Megan Craig
• The Atlantic for three articles by Sophie Gilbert: “The Death of the Sex Scene,” “Porn Set Women Up From the Start” and “Madonna Forever”
• Harper’s Magazine for “Signs and Wonders,” by Will Stephenson
• The New York Review of Books for “Peddling Darkness,” by John J. Lennon
• The New York Times Magazine for “American Renaissance,” by Jenna Wortham
• The New Yorker for three articles by Parul Sehgal: “Blood Lines,” “Tell No Tales” and “Turning the Page”
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine for three articles by Ligaya Mishan: “When Did Hospitality Get So Hostile?,” “Why Do American Diners Have Such a Limited Palate for Textures?” and “How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness?”

17. Public Interest

• Bloomberg Businessweek for “Eyedrop Emergency,” by Peter Robison and Priyanka Pulla
• High Country News with Food and Environment Reporting Network for “Alone on the Range,” by Teresa Cotsirilos
• The Marshall Project for “These States Are Using Fetal Personhood to Put Women Behind Bars,” by Cary Aspinwall, published with AL.com, The Frontier, Mississippi Today, The Post and Courier and The Guardian; “How One Alabama County Declared War on Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs,” by Amy Yurkanin, published with AL.com; and “They Were Prosecuted for Using Drugs While Pregnant. But It May Not Have Been a Crime,” by Anna Wolfe, published with Mississippi Today
• New York with ProPublica for “Protecting a Predator,” by Bianca Fortis and Laura Beil
• The New York Times Magazine for three articles by Hannah Dreier: “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.,” “As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings” and “Lost in Dreamland”
• The New Yorker with The Outlaw Ocean Project for “The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat,” by Ian Urbina
• ProPublica for three articles from the series “Friends of the Court” by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski: “Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire,” “Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court” and “Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events”

ASME Award for Fiction

Winner
The Paris Review for “This Is Everything There Will Ever Be,” by Rivers Solomon, “Helen,” by James Lasdun, and “My Good Friend,” by Juliana Leite

Finalists

• American Short Fiction for “The Drummer,” by Hilary Bell, “The Sea Captain,” by Emily Hunt Kivel, and “Spiders Cry Without Tears," by Diane Oliver
• The Georgia Review for "Shipwreck," by Yiru Zhang, "Mother, Marksman" by Ernie Wang, and "Bridling" by Nadia Davids
• Harper’s Magazine for “Triptych,” by Hernan Diaz, “Seeing Through Maps,” by Madeline ffitch, and “The Castle of Rose Tellin,” by Kate DiCamillo
• The New Yorker for “False Star,” by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, “Minority Report,” by Mary Gaitskill, and “Valley of the Moon,” by Paul Yoon

ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration

1. Best Print Design

Winner
The New York Times Magazine for “The Hip-Hop Issue”

Finalists

• Bon Appétit for “The 24 Best New Restaurants of the Year”
• Kazoo for “Little Things, Big Fun”
• New York for “Fall Preview 2023”
• Switchyard for Summer issue
  
  

2. Best Digital Design

Winner
The New Yorker for “Wong Kar Wai’s ‘In the Mood for Love’”

Finalists

• Bon Appétit for “Make Your Own Noodles”
• Eater for “Mall Food Madness”
• The New York Times Magazine for “The James Webb Telescope Is a Giant Leap in the History of Stargazing”
  
  

3. Best News and Entertainment Photographs

Winner
The New Yorker for “The Mayor Talks a Good Game,” photograph by Mark Peterson

Finalists

• Bustle for “Rachel McAdams Is Worth Waiting For,” photograph by Mark Seliger
• National Geographic for “The Future Is Folded,” photograph by Craig Cutler, February cover
• Texas Monthly for “Large and in Charge,” photograph by Peter Yang, May cover
  
  

4. Best Service and Lifestyle Photographs

Winner
GQ for “Secure the Jewels,” photograph by Bobby Doherty

Finalists

• Bon Appétit for “This Issue Takes the Cake,” photograph by Joe Lingeman, March cover, “The Travel Issue,” photograph by Isa Zapata, April cover, and “Surreal Life,” photograph by Doan Ly
• National Geographic for “Ramping Up Tradition,” photograph by Luisa Dörr
• New York for “The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes,” photograph by Bobby Doherty
• Travel + Leisure for “The Great White South,” photograph by Carol Sachs, “Sand Castles,” photograph by Manuel Obadia-Wills, and “Reach for the Sky,” photograph by Nick Ballón
  
  

5. Best Profile Photographs

Winner
National Geographic for “Forcibly Removed,” photograph by Daniella Zalcman

Finalists

• Allure for “Billie Eilish Just Wants to Feel Good,” photograph by Cho Gi-Seok
• GQ for “Jeremy Strong Won't Break,” photograph by Gregory Harris
• New York for “Inside Job,” photograph by Philip Montgomery
• TIME for “2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift,” photograph by Inez and Vinoodh
  
  

6. Best News and Entertainment Story

Winner
New York Times Opinion for “Scenes From Turkey After the Earthquake,” photographs by Sabiha Çimen

Finalists

• High Country News for “Glen Canyon Revealed,” photographs by Elliot Ross
• New York for “The Power Issue,” photographs by Mark Peterson
• Switchyard for “The People vs. the Ayatollahs,” photographs by Newsha Tavakolian
• TIME for “Bad Bunny's Next Move,” photographs by Elliot & Erick Jiménez
  
  

7. Best Service and Lifestyle Story

Winner
The New Yorker for “The Suitor,” photographs by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari

Finalists

• Allure for “You Can Smell the Spritz on These ‘90s Hair Looks,” photographs by Adrienne Raquel
• ELLE for “Zendaya Holds Court,” photographs by Steven Klein
• National Parks for “From Peak to Sea,” photographs by Craig Wolfrom
• Road & Track for “High Plains Dragster,” photographs by Andre D. Wagner
  
  

8. Best Print Illustrations

Winner
The Atlantic for “Jenisha From Kentucky,” illustrations by Didier Viodé

Finalists

• Foreign Affairs for three illustrations by John Lee: “The Ghosts of Kennan,” “The Forty-Year War” and “The End of Democratic Capitalism?”
• High Country News for “The Blab of the Pave,” illustrations by Kate Samworth
• The New Yorker for “Zonked,” illustration by Christoph Niemann
• Switchyard for “Tennessee Waltz,” illustration by Art Spiegelman, Summer cover
  
  

9. Best Digital Illustrations

Winner
The Marshall Project for “In New York Prisons, Guards Who Brutalize Prisoners Rarely Get Fired,” illustration by Dion MBD

Finalists

• The Atlantic for “When the Unnatural Becomes Natural,” illustration by Petra Péterffy
• Grow by Ginkgo for “Going Viral,” illustrations by Yoshi Sodeoka
• HuffPost for “Workers Wanted a Union. Then the Mysterious Men Showed Up.,” illustration by Zoe Van Dijk, “Inside Corporate America’s Favorite 'Union Busting' Firm,” illustration by Harol Bustos, and “When Immigrants Try to Organize, Their Employers Know Who to Call,” illustration by Rui Ricardo
• Rolling Stone for “Snippetcore Is the Post-Genre at the End of the Internet,” photo illustration by Max-O-Matic
  
  

10. Best Illustrated Story

Winner
The New Yorker for “Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?” by Angie Wang

Finalists

• The Atavist for “The Quality of Mercy,” illustrations by James Lee Chiahan
• Kazoo for “The Stellar True Story of Vera Rubin,” by Breena Bard
• Switchyard for “Killing the Negative,” illustrations by Joel Daniel Phillips
• The Verge for “Goodnight Phone,” by Gina Wynbrandt
  
  

ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30

Honorees:

Rebecca Alter, Staff Writer, Vulture
Nominated by Neil Janowitz, Editor in Chief, Vulture

Lovia Gyarkye, Culture Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Nominated by Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Co-Editor in Chief, The Hollywood Reporter

Haley Kluge, Creative Director, Variety
Nominated by Ramin Setoodeh, Editor in Chief, Variety

Isabela Quintero, Photo Editor, New York
Nominated by Jody Quon, Director of Photography, New York

Zeyi Yang, Reporter, China and East Asia, MIT Technology Review
Nominated by Mat Honan, Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review

About the National Magazine Awards

First presented in 1966, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and are administered by ASME. Every year more than 250 magazines and websites enter the awards, submitting 1,000-plus entries.

Judged by more than 300 distinguished writers, editors, art directors and photo editors, the National Magazine Awards are presented annually at a gala reception in New York City attended by 400 journalists and publishers. The winner of each National Magazine Award receives a copper “Ellie,” modeled on the symbol of the awards, Alexander Calderʼs 1942 stabile “Elephant Walking.” The ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration, the ASME Award for Fiction and the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 are judged and presented in conjunction with the National Magazine Awards.

About ASME

The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for the editorial leaders of magazines and websites published in the United States. Founded in 1963, ASME strives to defend the First Amendment, support the development of journalism and promote the editorial integrity of print and digital publications. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia Journalism School, conducts training programs for reporters and editors and publishes the ASME Guidelines for Editors and Publishers.

About Columbia Journalism School

For over a century, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has been preparing journalists with instruction and training that stresses academic rigor, ethics, journalistic inquiry and professional practice. Founded with a gift from Joseph Pulitzer, the school opened its doors in 1912 and offers master of science, master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees. Learn more at journalism.columbia.edu.

Contact:

Sidney Holt
[email protected]
212-872-3723