ASME Awards 2026 Judges

JUDGING LEADERS 

Richard Berke Cofounder and Executive Editor, STAT
Sudip Bose Editor, The American Scholar
Maile Carpenter Editorial Director, Food Network Magazine, HGTV Magazine and The Pioneer Woman
Jessica Cruel Editor in Chief, Allure and SELF
Richard Dorment Editorial Director, Men's Health and Women's Health
Jon Dorn Board Chair, RE:PUBLIC
Katie Drummond Global Editorial Director, WIRED
Ben Goldberger General Manager and Executive Director of Editorial Content, BBC
Patrick Gomez Editor in Chief, Entertainment Weekly
Mark Jannot Story Editor, Now Voyager
Clara Jeffery Editor in Chief, Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting
Lauren Kern Editor in Chief, Apple News
Amanda Kludt Senior Editor, Newsroom Projects and Initiatives, The New York Times
Cindi Leive Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder, The Meteor
Nathan Lump Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief, National Geographic
Katherine Mangu-Ward Editor in Chief, Reason
Stephanie Mehta Chief Executive Officer and Chief Content Officer, Inc. and Fast Company
Alison Overholt Founder, Good People LLC, and Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Swati Sharma Publisher and Editor in Chief, Vox
Ivylise Simones Creative Director, Slate
Nikhil Swaminathan Chief Executive Officer, Grist
Duy Linh Tu Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Julia Turner Cofounder and Editor in Chief, L.A. Material
Charles F. Whitaker Dean, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University

JUDGES 

Micah Abrams Vice President of Content Development, Outside
Amanda Agee Editorial Director, Cook's Illustrated
Sumi Aggarwal Chief Strategy Officer, The Intercept
Ian Aldrich Executive Editor, Yankee Magazine
Kelly Alexander Assistant Professor and George B. Tindall Fellow, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alissa Ambrose Director of Photography and Multimedia, STAT
David A. Andelman Editor and Publisher, Andelman Unleashed: SubStack
Elizabeth Angell Freelance Editor and Writer
Natalia Antelava Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief, Coda Media
Shaye Areheart Director, Columbia Publishing Course, Columbia University and Exeter College, Oxford
Ken Armstrong Senior Editor and Narrative Coach, Bloomberg
Jesse Ashlock
Benice Atufunwa Staff UX Content Designer, Squarespace
Sara Austin Executive Editor, ELLE
Anita Badejo Senior Development Editor, Serial Productions, The New York Times
Katherine Bagley Editor in Chief, Grist
Rachel Baker Editor, The Spread; Contributing Editor, Bustle Digital Group
C.J. Bartunek Managing Editor and Nonfiction Editor, The Georgia Review
Jonathan Beckman Editor, 1843
Nat Belkov Associate Creative Director, Eater
Willa Bennett Editor in Chief, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen
Michael Benoist Deputy Editor, The Daily, The New York Times
Reginald Dwayne Betts Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Reads
Jennifer Bogo Editor in Chief, Audubon
Daniel Boone Design Director, Southern Living
Brooke Borel Articles Editor, Undark
Carrie Boyd Vice President and Editor in Chief, Better Homes & Gardens
Richard Bradley Health, Longevity and Technology Editor, Curator
John Paul Brammer Writer
Erin Bried Editor in Chief, Kazoo
Jenna Brillhart Creative Director, InStyle, PEOPLE and Byrdie
Lauren Brown Associate Visual Director, Condé Nast
Cian Browne Creative Director
Sarah Burke
Scott Burton Executive Editor, ESPN
Lesley Busby Creative Consultant and Manager, T-mobile
Maria Bustillos Editor, Flaming Hydra
Charles Butler Professor of Practice, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication
Lauren Buzzeo Editor and Publisher, Full Pour
Danielle Cadet Freelance Editorial Consultant
Jordan Calhoun Editor in Chief, Lifehacker
Nick Catucci Site Director, GQ; Editor and Cofounder, Embedded
Geoff Chadsey Photo Editor, Content Solutions at People Inc.
Maria Charbonneaux Assistant Professor of Practice, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University
Jacqueline Cheng Technology Editor at Large
Melissa Chessher Endowed, Distinguished Chair of Journalism, Southern Methodist University
Kelly Chiello Photo Director, InStyle and Byrdie
Lexie Clinton Executive Producer, Salon
Ron Coddington Editor, Visuals and Data, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Katy Kiick Condon Executive Editor, People Inc. Premium Publishing
Tracy Connor Standards Editor, Business Insider
Leah Faye Cooper Digital Style Director, Vogue
Julia Cosgrove Vice President and Editor in Chief, Afar
Ben Court Executive Editor, Men's Health
Christopher Cox Features Editor, New York Magazine
Sarah Cristobal Editor at Large, 10 Magazine USA
Abigail Cuffey Executive Editor, Women's Health
Jessica Cumberbatch Director of Written Content, BBC StoryWorks
Jennifer Cunningham Editor in Chief, Newsweek
Ryan D'Agostino Editorial Director, Projects, Hearst Magazines
Seyward Darby Editor in Chief, The Atavist
Jordan Davidson Editorial Director, Understood.org
Kristina Deckert Senior Creative Director, Audubon
Jeffery DelViscio Chief Multimedia Editor and Executive Producer, Scientific American
Jessica DiGiacinto Head of Content, MedShadow Foundation
Frances Dodds Deputy Editor, Entrepreneur
Kira Brunner Don Editor in Chief, Stranger's Guide
Hugh Dougherty Executive Editor, The Daily Beast
Diane Dragan Global Director, Content Strategy and Operations, Architectural Digest
Kate Dries Executive Editor, Dwell
Simon Dumenco Editor at Large, Ad Age
Allie Early Digital Director, Prevention
Nancy Einhart Digital Content Consultant
Kate Elazegui Head of Product Design, The New York Times
Bryan Erickson Executive Creative Director, Business Insider
David M. Ewalt Editor in Chief, Scientific American
Kristin Fitzpatrick Creative Director, Town & Country and ELLE Décor
Peter Flax Editorial Director, Red Bull
Leah Flickinger Executive Features Director, Hearst Enthusiast Group
Ivan Armando Flores Creative Director, Texas Observer
Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn Deputy Editor, The New Yorker
Maria Fontoura Executive Editor, Rolling Stone
Chloe Fox Deputy Editor, Foreign Affairs
Lori Fradkin Executive Editor, TIME
Stephen Frailey Founder and Editor, DEAR DAVE, magazine
Garance Franke-Ruta Executive Editor, Inside Philanthropy
Lisa Freedman Senior Executive Editor, Real Simple
Hillary Frey Editor in Chief, Slate
Ben Frumin Editor in Chief, Wirecutter
Aileen Gallagher Associate Dean, Syracuse University
Hugh Garvey Editor in Chief, Sunset
Harry Gassel Design Director, ELLE
Ted Genoways Senior Editor, The Food & Environment Reporting Network
Keith Gessen Magazine Professor, Columbia Journalism School
Melissa Geurts Group Executive Director, Creative, Good Housekeeping
Steven Ginsberg Executive Editor, The Athletic
Dan Goodgame Senior Adviser, Texas Monthly
Ericka N. Goodman-Hughey Deputy Editor, ESPN.com/Features
David Granger Senior Agent, Aevitas Creative Management
Adrienne Green Executive Editor, Vanity Fair
Ginger Greene Managing Editor, The Believer
Megan Greenwell Author and Journalist
Megan Griffith-Greene Faculty, The Poynter Institute
Ryan Grim Magazine Director, Wine Enthusiast
D.D. Guttenplan Special Correspondent, The Nation
Pilar Guzman Editorial Director, O The Oprah Magazine
Lovia Gyarkye Culture Editor, Hammer & Hope
David Hajdu Professor, Columbia Journalism School; Music Critic, The Nation
Kathryne Hall Visuals Director, Allure and SELF
Scott Hall Photo Director, Travel + Leisure
Alicia Hallett Creative Director, Forbes
Betsy Halsey Creative Director, Studio, Under Armour
John Hamilton Photo Director, Hearst Enthusiast Group
Aaron Cline Hanbury Editor, Common Good
Reyhan Harmanci Features Director, WIRED
Amanda Heckert Executive Editor, Garden & Gun
Erika Heet Editor in Chief, BuildingGreen
Stephanie Heimann Photography Director, The New Republic
Peter Hemmel Creative Director, Peter Hemmel Creative
Elizabeth Meyers Hendrickson Professor, Ohio University
Samantha Henry Editor, Nieman Reports, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Shani O. Hilton Editor in Chief, Civic News Company
Amanda Hinnant Professor, University of Missouri, School of Journalism
Maureen Hoch Editor, HBR.org; Vice President, Digital Media, Harvard Business Review
Sally Holmes Editor in Chief, InStyle
Carol Holstead Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Journalism
Mat Honan Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
Caroline Howard Executive Editor, Forbes Media
Claire Howorth Deputy Editor, Vanity Fair
Elizabeth Hudson Editor in Chief, Our State
Kathryn Humphries Art Director, Harper's Magazine
Sabrina Imbler Staff Writer, Defector Media
Corinne Iozzio Editor in Chief, one5c
Jude Isabella Executive Editor, bioGraphic
Ed Johnson Art Director, Foreign Affairs and The Atavist
Richard Just Editor, NOTUS Perspectives
Michelle Kelly Editor in Chief, Cottage Life
Chuck Kerr Senior Creative Director, Entertainment Weekly / People App
Silvia Killingsworth Editor at Large, Ideas & Culture, Bloomberg
Richard Kim Editor in Chief, The City
Emily Kimbro Creative Director, Texas Monthly
Jamilah King Editorial Director, Mother Jones
Randi Klett Photography Director, IEEE Spectrum
Brendan Klinkenberg Senior Editor, The New York Times
Ellen Kunes Editorial Director, Digital and Print, Consumer Reports
Adam B. Kushner Editor, The Morning, The New York Times
Marisa Kwiatkowski Director of Journalism, Knight Foundation
Scott M. Lacey Visual Director, Cosmopolitan
Jessica LaRusso Editor in Chief, 5280
Jennifer Laski Executive Producer, Brand Experiences, The Ankler
Nico Lauricella Editor in Chief, Heatmap News
Taylor Le Creative Director, The San Francisco Standard
Edmund Lee Editor, The New York Times
Joanne Lee Visual and UX Designer, Rest of World
Kevin Lerner Professor and Chair of Journalism and Sports Media, Montclair State University
Amelia Lester Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy
Edward Levine Creative Director, Levine Design
Joe Levy Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
Michael Levy Editor and Publisher, Summit Journal
Sara A. Lewis Editor in Chief, Oxford American
Courtney Linder Deputy Features Editor, Popular Mechanics
Kevin Lozano Associate Literary Editor, The Nation
Matthew Lynch Editorial Director, Puck
Gerald Maa Editor and Director, The Georgia Review
Jennifer D. Madara Creative Director, Better Homes & Gardens
Mark Maltais Art Director, School of Visual Arts and Visual Arts Press
James Martin Creative Director, Remain in Light
Louis Mazzante Senior Features Director, Bicycling, Popular Mechanics and Runner's World, Hearst Enthusiast Group
Ross McCammon Editor in Chief, Texas Monthly
Michael McCormick Creative Director, Consumer Reports
Adam McGee Managing Editor, Inquest
Danielle McNally Executive Editor, InStyle
Brittney McNamara Journalist and Editor
Rachel Davis Mersey Executive Vice President and Provost, Southern Methodist University
Rachel Wilkerson Miller Senior Editor, Vox
Debbie Millman Editorial Director, Print Magazine and The Rumpus
Tara Rae Miner Deputy Editor, Orion
Tracey Minkin Travel Editor, Coastal Living
Nekesa Mumbi Moody Award-Winning Editor and Writer, MumbiMedia
Michael Morain Editor in Chief, dsm
Rashida Morgan-Brown Creative Director
Cori Murray Executive Vice President, Editorial Content, EBONY
Tom Namako Senior Executive Editor, NBC News
Kevin Nguyen Deputy Editor, The Verge
Terrance Noland Editor in Chief, Chicago
Michael Norseng Creative Director, Mpls.St.Paul, Twin Cities Business and MSP Communications
Keir Novesky Global Design Director, GQ
Eric Nusbaum Editor in Chief, Seattle Met
Andrew Nusca Editorial Director, Fortune
Meaghan O'Connell Writer and Editor
Emem Offong Executive Director, Experience Design, JPMorgan Chase & Co
Nikki Ogunnaike Editor in Chief, Marie Claire
Kristina O'Neill Head of Media, Sotheby's
Ivan Oransky Editor in Chief, The Transmitter
Meghan O'Rourke Executive Editor, The Yale Review; Professor of Creative Writing, Yale University
Niela Orr Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
Charlotte Owen Editor in Chief, Bustle; Executive Vice President, Editorial, Bustle Digital Group
Jennifer Pastore Global Creative Director, Vanity Fair
Samir Patel Editor in Chief, Quanta Magazine
Natasha Pearlman Head of Lifestyle, New York Post
Bradford Pearson Executive Editor, Philadelphia
Abe Peck Director, Business to Business Communications, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University; Editor at Large, Inside Unmanned Systems
Lisa Phillips Associate Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz
Alex Pollack Director of Photography, National Geographic
Katherine Pomerantz Director of Photography, TIME
Kyle Pope Cofounder, Covering Climate Now
Corey S. Powell Founder, Invisible University
John Patrick Pullen Founding Editor, Long Lead
Lucy Quintanilla Creative Director, Den of Geek
Kit Rachlis Senior Editor, ProPublica
Kristen Radtke Creative Director, The Verge
Hanna Raskin Founder, The Food Section
Evan Ratliff Writer and Host, Shell Game
Pat Regnier Editor, Bloomberg Markets
Jennifer Reut Editor, ASLA/Landscape Architecture Magazine
Paul Reyes Editor, VQR
Phil Roosevelt Editorial Director, Magazine, Barron's
Maer Roshan Editor in Chief, The Hollywood Reporter
Theodore Ross Editor in Chief, Food & Environment Reporting Network
Adam Roy Editor in Chief, Backpacker
Peter Rubin Head of Publishing, Automattic (Longreads and The Atavist)
Jennifer Sahn Editor in Chief, High Country News
Perrie Samotin Digital Director, Glamour
Katie Sanders Freelance Journalist and Podcast Producer
Jenny Sargent Photography Director, Billboard
Madeleine Schwartz Editor in Chief, The Dial
Corey Seymour Senior Editor, Vogue
Noah Shachtman Contributing Editor, WIRED
Carla Shackleford Managing Editor, Philadelphia
Aviva Shen Executive Editor, Type Investigations
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Editor, Hearing Things
Nancy Shute Editor in Chief, Science News
Leta Shy Editorial Director, Wirecutter
Tatiana Siegel Writer at Large, The California Post
Emily Silber Executive Editor, People Inc.
Marquita Smith Associate Dean, University of Mississippi
Gabriel Snyder Executive Editor, Enterprise, Newsweek
Kurt Soller Deputy Editor, T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Brendan Spiegel Editorial Director, Narratively
Nykia Spradley Freelance Editorial and Content Director
Robert Stieve Editor in Chief, Arizona Highways
Annie Stoltie Editor in Chief, Adirondack Life
Brad Stone Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
Emily Roberts Stone Editor in Chief, Texas Highways
Riyana Straetker Product Manager, People Inc.
Jen Swetzoff Editor, Anyway
Winslow Taft Creative Director, Food & Wine
Savannah M. Taylor Director, Editorial, EBONY
Jonathan Tepperman Editor in Chief, The Catalyst
Alex Testere Senior Editor, SAVEUR
Bhumika Tharoor Managing Editor, The Atlantic
Caitlin Thompson Founder and Editor, Racquet
Nathan Thornburgh Publisher, Roads and Kingdoms
Stephanie Tran Director of Photography, WSJ. Magazine
Charlotte Triggs Editor in Chief and General Manager, PEOPLE
Tyghe Trimble Editor in Chief, Inverse
Brendan Vaughan Editor in Chief, Fast Company
Greg Veis Senior Editor, Apple News
Elspeth Velten Editor in Chief, Good Housekeeping; Editorial Director, Prevention and Woman's Day
Amber Venerable Creative Director, Allure and SELF
Chris Vogel Editor in Chief, Boston Magazine
Justin Vogt Executive Editor, Foreign Affairs
Amy Wallace Writer
Esther Wang Senior Editor, Hell Gate
Sisi Wei Chief Impact Officer, CalMatters and The Markup
Gillian White Chief Revenue Officer, Capital B
Austin Williams Media Studies Professor, CUNY City College of New York
Victor Williams Design Director, TIME
Jennifer Wilson Professor of Journalism and Brand Media, Drake University
David Wolf Editor, The Guardian Long Read
Patti Wolter Helen Gurley Brown Magazine Professor, Northwestern University
Tali Woodward Editor in Chief, The Trace
Abi Wright Executive Director, Professional Prizes, Columbia Journalism School
Daniel Zalewski Executive Editor, The New Yorker
Michael Zelenko Executive Editor, Rest of World
Blaise Zerega Editorial Director, Alta Journal
Cassidy Zobl Deputy Creative Director, Road & Track

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2026 BOARD 

Jelani Cobb Dean and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Jonathan Dorn Board Chair, RE:PUBLIC, and ASME Past President
Mark Jannot Story Editor, Now Voyager, and ASME Past President
Clara Jeffery Editor in Chief, Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting,
and ASME Past President
Amanda Kludt Senior Editor, Newsroom Projects and Initiatives, The New York Times, and ASME Past President
Cindi Leive Chief Executive Officer, The Meteor, and ASME Past President
Stephanie Mehta Chief Executive Officer and Chief Content Officer, Inc. and Fast Company, and ASME Board Secretary
Alison Overholt Founder, Good People LLC, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and ASME President
Nikhil Swaminathan Chief Executive Officer, Grist, and ASME Vice President
Julia Turner Senior Fellow, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and ASME Board Treasurer
Abi Wright Executive Director, Professional Prizes, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Sidney Holt Executive Director, American Society of Magazine Editors, Ex Officio

Titles and affiliations listed were at time of judging