AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCES NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2024 WINNERS

The Atlantic, New York and The New York Times Magazine win multiple awards; The New Yorker tops winners of ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration

NEW YORK (April 2, 2024)—The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) tonight announced the winners of the 2024 National Magazine Awards. The winners were named during the 59th annual awards presentation at Terminal 5 in New York City. The winners of the ASME Award for Fiction, the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration and the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 were also honored.

One of the most prestigious journalism-awards programs in the United States, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine storytelling published in any print or digital medium. The awards are currently presented in 17 categories.

The 2024 presentation of the National Magazine Awards was sponsored by Hearst Magazines and Rosaluna Mezcal.

“The winners speak for themselves,” said Sidney Holt, the executive director of ASME. “Not only is each an outstanding example of magazine storytelling—and in the case of the General Excellence winners, there are dozens of examples—but each also demonstrates the continuing vitality of print and digital media.”

The top National Magazine Award winners this year were The Atlantic with four awards, New York with two awards and The New York Times Magazine with three awards. The winners also included Business Insider, Highsnobiety, Invisible Institute with USG Audio, The Marshall Project, Philadelphia, ProPublica with The Texas Tribune, Rest of World and The Yale Review.

The ASME Award for Fiction was won by The Paris Review for the second consecutive year. The winners of the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration were led by The New Yorker with four awards. The ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration winners also included The Atlantic, GQ, The Marshall Project, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine and New York Times Opinion. The ASME NEXT Awards honorees were writers and creatives from The Hollywood Reporter, MIT Technology Review, New York, Variety and Vulture.

The Atlantic’s “Inside the Meltdown at CNN”—Tim Alberta’s profile of Chris Licht, which led to Licht’s ouster as network chief—was among the most notable stories to win National Magazine Awards this year. Jennifer Senior’s “The Ones We Sent Away,” about the life of her mentally disabled aunt, and three articles by Sophie Gilbert on the depiction of gender and power in the media also won awards for The Atlantic.

The winners included two deeply reported articles on school shootings: The New York Times Magazine’s “What Can’t Be Unseen,” about the crime-scene investigators who worked the Sandy Hook shooting, and ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s “Someone Tell Me What to Do,” about law-enforcement failures at the Uvalde, Texas, shooting. New York’s “The War and New York,” received the National Magazine Award for Single-Topic Topic (New York won the same award last year for “Ten Years Since Trayvon”), and on the lighter side, Philadelphia’s “All Hail the Hoagie” won the award for Lifestyle Journalism.

The 2024 winners of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence were The Atlantic, in the News, Sports and Entertainment category; Highsnobiety in the Service and Lifestyle category; The Marshall Project in the Special Interest category; and The Yale Review in the Literature, Science and Politics category. The Atlantic and The Marshall Project were both repeat winners. The Marshall Project won General Excellence for the second consecutive year, while The Atlantic won General Excellence for the third consecutive year, a feat matched only by Outside in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

First-time winners this year were Highsnobiety and The Yale Review in General Excellence, Business Insider in Video and Rest of World in Design.

For a complete list of the 2024 finalists, with links to stories, please visit asme.media. A complete list of the nearly 300 judges is posted at nationalmagazineawards.org. 

National Magazine Awards 2024 Winners

Honors magazines and websites in four categories based on content and audience

News, Sports and Entertainment
Recognizes publications covering society and culture as well as politics, business, science and technology

• The Atlantic

Service and Lifestyle
Recognizes publications covering fashion, food, travel, design, health, parenting, personal finance and active sports

• Highsnobiety

Special Interest
Recognizes publications serving highly defined reader communities, including city and regional magazines

• The Marshall Project

Literature, Science and Politics
Recognizes publications with print circulations under 250,000 or average monthly unique visitors of less than 1 million, as well as magazines and websites covering media and the arts

• The Yale Review

5 DESIGN
Honors overall excellence in the art direction of magazines and websites

• 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

6 PHOTOGRAPHY
Honors overall excellence in the photo direction of magazines and websites

• New York for “Let's Have a Real Conversation About Barbara Walters,” photographs by Brigitte Lacombe, March 13-26; July 3-16 issue; and “The Power Issue,” October 23-November 5

7 PODCASTING
Honors the outstanding use of audio content by magazines and websites

• 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”

8 VIDEO
Honors the outstanding use of video by magazines and websites

• Business Insider for “How Dogs Are Trained to Attack US Prisoners,” by Hannah Beckler, Olivia Nemec, Robert Leslie, Noah Lewis and Erica Berenstein

9 SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE
Honors magazines and websites for the comprehensive examination of one subject

• New York for “The War and New York,” November 20-December 3

10 SERVICE JOURNALISM
Honors print and digital journalism that addresses readers’ needs and aspirations

• The New York Times Magazine for “A Vicious Cycle,” by Susan Dominus

11 LIFESTYLE JOURNALISM
Honors print and digital journalism that celebrates readers’ passions and interests

• Philadelphia for “All Hail the Hoagie”

12 REPORTING
Honors reporting excellence as exemplified by one article or a series of articles

• 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

13 FEATURE WRITING
Honors original, stylish storytelling for magazines and websites

• The New York Times Magazine for “What Can't Be Unseen,” by Jay Kirk

14 PROFILE WRITING
Honors news or feature stories that explore the character and background of an individual or a group of closely linked individuals

• The Atlantic for “Inside the Meltdown at CNN,” by Tim Alberta

15 COLUMNS AND ESSAYS
Honors interpretative journalism, including political and social commentary and essays on the personal experience of the writer

• The Atlantic for “The Ones We Sent Away,” by Jennifer Senior

16 REVIEWS AND CRITICISM
Honors commentary on the arts as well as reviews of products and services

• The Atlantic for three articles by Sophie Gilbert: “The Death of the Sex Scene,” “Porn Set Women Up From the Start” and “Madonna Forever”

17 PUBLIC INTEREST
Honors magazine and web journalism that illuminates issues of national importance

• 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 ASME Award for Fiction Winner

Established in 2018 to celebrate the historic link between literary fiction and magazine journalism, this award honors overall excellence in the publication of short fiction

• 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, translated by Zoë Perry

ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration Winners

Established in 2020, the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration honor magazines and websites for visual excellence

1 BEST PRINT DESIGN

• The New York Times Magazine for “The Hip-Hop Issue,” August 13

2 BEST DIGITAL DESIGN

• The New Yorker for “Kyle Chayka Reflects on Wong Kar Wai’s ‘In the Mood for Love’”

3 BEST NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOGRAPHS

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

4 BEST SERVICE AND LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHS

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

5 BEST PROFILE PHOTOGRAPHS

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

6 BEST NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT STORY

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

7 BEST SERVICE AND LIFESTYLE STORY

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

8 BEST PRINT ILLUSTRATIONS

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

9 BEST DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS

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

10 BEST ILLUSTRATED STORY

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

ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 Honorees

The ASME NEXT Awards were established in 2016 to support the development of print and digital media by recognizing young journalists of extraordinary promise

• Rebecca Alter, Staff Writer, Vulture
• Lovia Gyarkye, Arts and Culture Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
• Haley Kluge, Creative Director, Variety
• Isabela Quintero, Photo Editor, New York
• Zeyi Yang, Reporter, China and East Asia, 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 nearly 300 writers, editors, art directors, photo editors and educators, 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
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212-872-3723