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New Yorker, Times Magazine and Topic Win Top Honors at National Magazine AwardsAdam Moss honored for lifetime achievement; CNN’s John Avlon hostsNEW YORK, NY (March 14, 2019)—The winners of the 2019 National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media were announced this evening during the presentation of the 54th annual Ellie Awards at Brooklyn Steel, a music venue in Williamsburg, New York. The New Yorker won four Ellies, in the Reporting, Feature Writing, Columns and Commentary and Public Interest categories. The New York Times Magazine and Topic were the only other publications to receive more than one Ellie, both winning two. The event was hosted by John Avlon, senior political analyst at CNN and former editor in chief of The Daily Beast, and was attended by nearly 500 editors and publishers. Known as the Ellies for the elephant-shaped statuettes presented to each winner, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia Journalism School and are administered by ASME. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine-quality journalism published in any medium. Ellie Awards ticket sales provide support for the Osborn Elliott Scholarship at the Columbia Journalism School. The scholarship is awarded to students who intend to pursue careers in magazine journalism. This year 67 media organizations were named as finalists in 22 categories; 17 print and digital publications won awards. The event included the presentation of the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame Award to the longtime editor in chief of New York magazine, Adam Moss. Also honored were the recipients of the second annual ASME Award for Fiction, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30: Bon Appétit’s Alex Lau, New York’s Olivia Nuzzi, Philadelphia’s Ernest Owens, The Atlantic’s Jeremy Raff and ESPN The Magazine’s Elaine Teng. Four publications received the most prestigious honor, General Excellence. The four magazines were National Geographic, which won its eighth General Excellence award, in the News, Sports and Entertainment category; T: The New York Times Style Magazine, which won General Excellence for the second consecutive year, in the Service and Lifestyle category; Kazoo, which won the first General Excellence award for a children’s magazine, in the Special Interest category; and Virginia Quarterly Review, which won its second General Excellence award, in the Literature, Science and Politics category. The New Yorker won its 13th Ellie for Reporting; its 5th for Feature Writing; its 3rd for Columns and Commentary; and its 9th for Public Interest overall and its 2nd in the category for the work of Sarah Stillman. The New Yorker has now been awarded 48 Ellies since David Remnick was appointed editor in 1998. The New York Times Magazine received its first Ellie in Digital Innovation and its second in Essays and Criticism. Topic won its first Ellies by sweeping the two Video categories. New York won its third Ellie for Leisure Interests and its 41st under the leadership of Adam Moss. The award-winning entry, “How to Be an Artist,” was written by Jerry Saltz, whose work for New York won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2015. W won its third Ellie for Feature Photography since the category was introduced in 2011. Repeat Ellie winners also included Bon Appétit, The Marshall Project, Popular Science, Slate and Wired. Besides Topic, first-time Ellie winners were 5280, GQ Style, Kazoo and Roads & Kingdoms. Editors accepting Ellie Awards in addition to Adam Moss and David Remnick were Bon Appétit’s Adam Rapoport, The Marshall Project’s Bill Keller, National Geographic's Susan Goldberg, The New York Times Magazine's Jake Silverstein, T: The New York Times Style Magazine’s Hanya Yanagihara and W’s Stefano Tonchi, all of whom had previously won National Magazine Awards. Newcomers to the stage this year were 5280’s Geoff Van Dyke, GQ Style’s Will Welch, Kazoo’s Erin Bried, Popular Science’s Joe Brown, Slate’s Lowen Liu, Topic’s Anna Holmes, Virginia Quarterly Review’s Paul Reyes and Wired’s Nicholas Thompson. “Print and digital magazines continue to achieve new levels of excellence,” said Sid Holt, chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors. “Reporting, writing, photography and design—the 67magazines and websites we honored tonight do it all. But what made the occasion especially significant—and especially touching for the many readers and journalists who have been influenced by his work—was the presentation of ASME’s Hall of Fame Award to one of the most thoughtful and innovative editors of our time, Adam Moss.” Two hundred seventy-five national and regional publications entered the National Magazine Awards this year, submitting 699 print, 560 digital and 141 multiplatform entries. The awards were judged by 297 print- and digital-magazine editors, art directors, photo editors and journalism educators, who met on January 16 and 17 at the Columbia School of Journalism to choose the finalists and winners. Twenty-six titles received multiple Ellie nominations, led by The New Yorker with nine. National Geographic and New York both received seven nominations; New York’s women’s vertical, The Cut, was also nominated separately. The New York Times Magazine garnered five nominations, followed by The Atlantic, The Marshall Project and ProPublica, each with four. Atlas Obscura, Bon Appétit, The California Sunday Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Topic all received three nominations. Fourteen media organizations were nominated twice: AFAR, BuzzFeed News, GQ Style, HarpersBazaar.com, Longreads, Outside, Poetry, Popular Science, Slate, Smithsonian, TIME, Virginia Quarterly Review, W and Wired. The finalists also included 5280, Allure, Aperture, Audubon, Bloomberg Businessweek, Broadly, Columbia Journalism Review, Cosmopolitan, Deadspin, Esquire, Field & Stream, The Hollywood Reporter, HuffPost Highline, Kazoo, Marie Claire, Martha Stewart Living, Mic, Newsday, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Pacific Standard, Philadelphia, Pitchfork, Politico, Real Simple, Roads & Kingdoms, Rolling Stone, Saveur, SELF, Sonoma, Thrillist, The Trace, Type Investigations, Vanity Fair, Vice, Vogue, The Washington Post, Whisky Advocate, WNYC, WNYC Studios and Women’s Health. For more information about the Ellies 2019 honorees, including story links, finalist and winner citations and a list of the judges, please visit ellies2019.org. For photographs from the event, click here. Ellie Awards 2019 Winners and FinalistsGeneral Excellence News, Sports and Entertainment Winner: National Geographic Finalists: The Marshall Project; New York; TIME; Wired Service and Lifestyle Winner: T: The New York Times Style Magazine Finalists: AFAR; Bon Appétit; Martha Stewart Living; Saveur Special Interest Winner: Kazoo Finalists: Audubon; Columbia Journalism Review; The Hollywood Reporter; Smithsonian Literature, Science and Politics Winner: Virginia Quarterly Review Finalists: Aperture; Poetry; Popular Science; The Trace Design and Photography News and Opinion Winner: Wired Finalists: The California Sunday Magazine; National Geographic; New York; The New York Times Magazine Service and Lifestyle Winner: GQ Style Finalists: AFAR; Bon Appétit; T: The New York Times Style Magazine; W Feature Photography Winner: W for “Cate,” photographs by Cass Bird, Rineke Dijkstra, Dominique Issermann, Shirin Neshat, Jackie Nickerson, Sharna Osborne, Alex Prager, Viviane Sassen and Sam Taylor-Johnson, Volume 5 Finalists: GQ Style for “Three Days in Dakar,” photographs by Fanny Latour-Lambert, August 7, Fall; National Geographic for “Frenzy,” photographs by Laurent Ballesta, May; New York for “The Class of 1946-2018,” photographs by Michael Avedon, October 29–November 11; Rolling Stone for “The Survivors,” photographs by Patrick Brown, August Website News and Opinion Winner: The Marshall Project Finalists: National Geographic; The New Yorker; Pitchfork; Topic Service and Lifestyle Winner: Roads & Kingdoms Finalists: Atlas Obscura; The Cut; Outside; SELF Digital Innovation Winner: The New York Times Magazine for “The Voyages Issue,” September 21 at nytimes.com and on the New York Times mobile app and September 23 in print Finalists: The Marshall Project in partnership with Longreads for “Banished” by Beth Schwartzapfel and Emily Kassie, October 3 at themarshallproject.org; Mic for “The Black Monuments Project,” February 1; The New Yorker for “Touchstones,” November 20; ProPublica and WNYC for“The Waiting Game,” April 23 at propublica.org Social Media Winner: Bon Appétit Finalists: Atlas Obscura; HarpersBazaar.com; National Geographic; ProPublica Podcasting Winner: Slate for three episodes of “Slow Burn”: “Deal or No Deal,” August 8, “Tell-All,” September 18, and “Move On,” October 17 Finalists: Broadly for three episodes of “Queerly Beloved”: “The Past Lovers,” September 12, “The Siblings,” September 26, and “The Artists,” October 30; Longreads in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting for three episodes of “Bundyville”: “The Battle,” “The Bomb” and “The Prophecy,” May 15, at longreads.com; The New Yorker and WNYC Studios for two episodes of “The New Yorker Radio Hour”: “The Long-Distance Con, Part 1,” September 28, and “The Long-Distance Con, Part 2,” October 5, at newyorker.com; Poetry for three episodes of “The Poetry Magazine Podcast”: “Hera Lindsay Bird Reads ‘Pyramid Scheme,’” February 19, “Danez Smith Reads ‘How Many of Us Have Them?,’” March 12, and “Martín Espada Reads ‘Letter to My Father,’” March 26 Video News and Opinion Winner: Topic for “Black 14,” directed by Darius Clark Monroe,March 6 Finalists: The Atlantic for “The Separated,” video by Jeremy Raff, September 7; Deadspin for “How Sinclair Turned News Anchors Into Soldiers in Trump’s War on the Media,” video by Timothy Burke, March 31; National Geographic for “Flint Students Celebrate Last Prom as High School Shuts Down,” directed by Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari, July; Vanity Fair for “Billie Eilish: Same Interview, One Year Apart,” November 6 Service and Lifestyle Winner: Topic for “Noodle School,” directed by Jia Li, September 10 Finalists: Atlas Obscura for “Bug Love,” video by John Picklap and Olivia Loomis Merrion, November 6; BuzzFeed News for “My Mom Took Care of Me for Top Surgery,” video by Branson LB, August 31, “What It’s Really Like Preparing for Top Surgery,” video by Sarah Karlan, September 2, and “What It’s Really Like Recovering From Top Surgery,” video by Sarah Karlan, September 5; HarpersBazaar.com for “The Real Crazy Rich Asians,” directed by Valerie Schenkman, August 15; Vogue for “You’re So Vain . . . ,” directed by Charlotte Wales, March 1, “Praise Be! The 28 Best Looks From the Paris Collections,” directed by Gordon von Steiner, March 22, and “Hadid, Hadid, Hadid!,” directed by Bardia Zeinali, September 24 Single-Topic Issue Winner: Popular Science for “The Tiny Issue,” Fall Finalists: Allure for “The Culture of Hair,” March; New York for “Women and Power,” October 14 at thecut.com and October 15-28 in print; Sonoma for “The Fire Issue,” January/February; T: The New York Times Style Magazine for “New York City: 1981-1983,” April 22 Personal Service Winner: 5280 for “The Art of Dying Well,” edited by Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B. Koehler, October Finalists: Cosmopolitan for “Birth Control: Will It Become the Ultimate Luxury?," by Jennifer Gerson and Ashley Oerman, October 16 at cosmopolitan.com and November in print; Marie Claire for “Marie Claire's Guide to Having a Baby,” edited by Danielle McNally and Colleen McKeegan, October 1 at marieclaire.com, and “A Dream Destroyed,” by Kayla Webley Adler, October in print; Outside for "Rewilding the American Child," September; Women’s Health for “You've Got This, Mama,” by Kelly Mickle, November Leisure Interests Winner: New York for “How to Be an Artist,” by Jerry Saltz, November 26–December 9 Finalists: Field & Stream for “One Wild Summer,” June-July; Real Simple for “Backyard Bliss,”July; Thrillist for “Pizzafied,” edited by Matt Lynch; Whisky Advocate for “The Smoke Lovers' Issue,” Fall Reporting Winner: The New Yorker for "Shallow Graves," by Ben Taub, December 24 & 31 Finalists: The Atlantic for “American Hustler,” by Franklin Foer, March; Bloomberg Businessweek for "I Hereby Confess Judgment," by Zachary R. Mider and Zeke Faux, November 26; The California Sunday Magazine in partnership with Type Investigations for “Whatever’s Your Darkest Question, You Can Ask Me,” by Lizzie Presser, April 1; The New Yorker for “Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse,” by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, May 7, at newyorker.com, “Trouble at the Top,” by Ronan Farrow, August 6 & 13, and “As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit From CBS, Six Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims,” by Ronan Farrow, September 9, at newyorker.com; Politico for “The Genocide the U.S. Didn't See Coming,” by Nahal Toosi, March/April; ProPublica with TIME for “Unprotected,” by Finlay Young, October 11 at propublica.org Feature Writing Winner: The New Yorker for “A Theory of Relativity,” by Elif Batuman, April 30 Finalists: BuzzFeed News for “We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage,” by Christine Kenneally, August 27; The California Sunday Magazine for “A Kingdom From Dust,” by Mark Arax, February 4; Esquire for “This Place Is Crazy,” by John J. Lennon, Summer; New York for “Everyone Believed Larry Nassar,” by Kerry Howley, November 12–25; Smithsonian for “Taming the Lionfish,” by Jeff MacGregor, June; The Washington Post for “What Do We Owe Her Now?,” by Elizabeth Bruenig, August 19 at washingtonpost.com Essays and Criticism Winner: The New York Times Magazine for “Getting Out,” by Reginald Dwayne Betts, October 21 Finalists: The Atlantic for “A Warning From Europe,” by Anne Applebaum, October; The New Yorker for three articles by Jill Lepore: “It’s Still Alive,” February 12 & 19, “The Shorebird,” March 26, and “Misjudged,” October 8; Pacific Standard for “Silence Breaking Woman,” by Terese Marie Mailhot, May; Virginia Quarterly Review for “The Breakup Museum,” by Leslie Jamison, Spring Columns and Commentary Winner: The New Yorker for three articles by Doreen St. Félix: “The National Geographic Twins and the Falsehood of Our Post-Racial Future,” March 14 at newyorker.com, “The Profound Presence of Doria Ragland,” May 21 at newyorker.com, and “The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment,” September 27 at newyorker.com Finalists: The Atlantic for three articles by Caitlin Flanagan: “The First Porn President,” May 3 at theatlantic.com, “I Believe Her,” September 17 at theatlantic.com, and “The Abandoned World of 1982,” September 25 at theatlantic.com; The Marshall Project in collaboration with Vice for three “Life Inside” columns: “Death Row’s First Ever Talent Show,” by George T. Wilkerson, March 22, “Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind,” by Robert Wright, May 31, and “What It's Like to Be a Cutter in Prison,” by Deidre McDonald, August 16, at themarshallproject.org; Philadelphia for three “Crankcase” columns by Sandy Hingston: “Alexa. That Bitch,” March, “The White Stuff,” August, and “Hair Piece,” October; Slate for three “Jurisprudence” columns by Dahlia Lithwick: “He Made Us All Victims and Accomplices,” December 13, 2017, “Rob Porter’s History of Domestic Abuse Wasn’t a Secret. It’s Just That No One Cared,” February 8, and “Our System Is Too Broken to Assess the Sexual Assault Claim Against Kavanaugh,” September 14 Public Interest Winner: The New Yorker for “No Refuge,” by Sarah Stillman, January 15 Finalists: HuffPost Highline for “The Best Way to Save People From Suicide,” by Jason Cherkis, November 15; National Geographic for three articles from “Planet or Plastic?”: “We Made It. We Depend on It. We’re Drowning in It. Plastic,” by Laura Parker, June, “What Happens to the Plastic We Throw Out,” June at nationalgeographic.com/magazine, and “Planet or Plastic’ Pledge,” June at nationalgeographic.com/environment; The New York Times Magazine for “The Hidden Toll,” by Linda Villarosa, April 15; ProPublica for three articles by Hannah Dreier: “A Betrayal,” co-published with New York, April 2, “The Disappeared,” co-published with Newsday, September 20, and “He Drew His School Mascot—and ICE Labeled Him a Gang Member,” co-published with The New York Times Magazine, December 27
All publication dates 2018 unless otherwise indicated About ASME The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. The members of ASME include the editorial leaders of most major consumer and business magazines published in print and on digital platforms. Founded in 1963, ASME works to defend the First Amendment, protect editorial independence and support the development of journalism. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media in association with the Columbia Journalism School 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. Contacts: Sid Holt Susan Russ |