AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR 2023 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

NEW YORK (February 23, 2023)—The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced via Twittercast the finalists for the 2023 National Magazine Awards. The 58th annual awards honor media organizations, including magazines, websites, newspapers, and audio and video production companies, for editorial excellence in categories ranging from Reporting and Feature Writing to Podcasting and Video.

 

ASME will announce the winners of the National Magazine Awards on Tuesday, March 28, at Terminal 5, on West 56th Street in Manhattan. 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.

 

This year, 17 National Magazine Awards will be presented, including two new awards, for Columns and Essays and Reviews and Criticism.

 

“Our 2023 honorees represent the best in print and digital journalism, from in-depth investigations and thought-provoking imagery to think pieces and controversial analysis,” said Sidney Holt, executive director of ASME. “ASME is looking forward to honoring this impressive work and celebrating all the finalists and winners during our annual presentation of the National Magazine Awards on March 28.”

 

In 2023, 16 titles received multiple nominations. New York leads the nominations for the second consecutive year with 10, two more than in 2022. Other titles with multiple nominations include The New Yorker (seven), The New York Times Magazine (six), The Atlantic (five), Eater, Harper’s Bazaar, The Marshall Project, Mother Jones, ProPublica and Stranger’s Guide (three), and Bon Appétit, Cook’s Illustrated, ESPN Digital, STAT, Vanity Fair and The Verge (two).

 

Group publishers Condé Nast and Vox Media received the most nominations across titles this year with 15 each.

 

Twenty publications are nominated for the most prestigious honor, General Excellence. Repeat finalists in General Excellence categories this year are New York (eighth consecutive year), Audubon (fifth consecutive year), The New York Times Magazine and Stranger’s Guide (fourth consecutive year), The Atlantic (third consecutive year), and Grist and Harper’s Bazaar (second consecutive year).

 

The five media organizations nominated for the first time in any category are Articles of Interest, Louisville, Rest of World, Romper and Serial Productions.

 

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

 

The ASME Award for Fiction winner is The Paris Review for “Trial Run,” by Zach Williams, “Winter Term,” by Michelle de Kretser, and “A Good Samaritan,” by Addie E. Citchens.

 

Winners of the ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration are The Verge (Best Print Design), Rolling Stone (Best Digital Design), The New Yorker (Best News and Entertainment Photograph), Texas Monthly (Best Service and Lifestyle Photograph), WIRED (Best Profile Photograph), The New Yorker (Best News and Entertainment Story), New York (Best Service and Lifestyle Story), The Atlantic (Best Print Illustration), The Marshall Project (Best Digital Illustration) and Virginia Quarterly Review (Best Illustrated Story).

 

The honorees for ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 are Brock Colyar, features writer, New York Magazine; Jerusalem Demsas, staff writer, The Atlantic; Adrienne Green, deputy editor, special projects, The New York Times Magazine; Jack Herrera, senior editor, Texas Monthly; and Nicholas Konrad, art director, The New Yorker.

 

Established 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. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine journalism published in any medium.

 

This year 243 national and regional media organizations entered the National Magazine Awards, submitting 426 print entries, 526 digital entries and 121 multiplatform entries.

 

The judging of the 58th annual National Magazine Awards was held in conjunction with the judging of the 6th annual ASME Award for Fiction; the 3rd annual ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration; and the 8th annual ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30. The 291 print-and digital-magazine editors, art directors, photo editors and journalism educators who judged the National Magazine Awards met in person at Columbia University and virtually on Zoom on January 12 and 19 to choose the 2023 finalists.

 

Winners receive “Ellies,” the elephant-shaped statuettes modeled on Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant Walking,” created in 1942.

 

Tickets to the 2023 National Magazine Awards are now on sale. National Magazine Awards 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.

• The Atlantic
• ESPN Digital
• New York
• The New York Times Magazine
• The Verge

• Cook’s Illustrated
• Eater
• Good Housekeeping
• Harper’s Bazaar
• Men’s Health

• Audubon
• Kazoo
• The Marshall Project
• Pitchfork
• STAT

• Aperture
• Grist
• Mother Jones
• The Paris Review
• Stranger’s Guide

• Articles of Interest for Radiotopia From PRX for three episodes of “American Ivy,” hosted by Avery Trufelman: “Chapter 1,” “Chapter 2” and “Chapter 3”
• Crooked Media for Audacy for three episodes of “Mother Country Radicals,” hosted by Zayd Ayers Dohrn: “Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America,” “Chapter 2: Days of Rage” and “Chapter 3: I Am a Revolutionary”
• The Economist for three episodes of “The Prince,” hosted by Sue-Lin Wong: “Episode 1: Redder Than Red,” “Episode 2: Hide and Bide” and “Episode 3: Patriot Number One”
• Gimlet Media for Spotify for three episodes of “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s,” hosted by Connie Walker: “Episode 1: The Police Officer and the Priest,” “Episode 3: Don't Play With This” and “Episode 4: Not a Place to Be”
• Serial Productions for The New York Times for three episodes of “The Trojan Horse Affair,” hosted by Brian Reed and Hamza Syed: “Part 1: The Letter in the Brown Paper Envelope,” “Part 2: The Case of the Four Resignations” and “Part 3: Sir Albert and the Missing ‘H’”

• Cook’s Illustrated for “What’s Eating Dan: Asparagus”
• Eater for “How One of Philly's Best Pizza Spots Creates Jobs for the Formerly Incarcerated—First Person,” produced by Carla Francescutti
• Insider for “The True Cost of Crisis Pregnancy Centers,” produced by Katie Nixdorf
• Mother Jones for “Failure to Protect,” reported by Samantha Michaels, produced by Mark Helenowski
• The New Yorker for “American Scar,” directed and produced by Daniel Lombroso, and “Nuisance Bear,” directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden

• Bon Appétit for “Food Is Queer,” “Best New Restaurants” and December 2022/January 2023 issue
• GQ for June/July issue, “Metamorphosis” opening spread and “Jacob’s Ladder” opening spread
• The Marshall Project for “Anatomy of a Murder Confession,” “Testify” and “The Rise and Fall of a Prison Town Queen”
• New York for “A Practical Guide to Accessing an Abortion Today and Tomorrow,” “200 Restaurants, 100 Tips” and “The Strategist Holiday Gift Guide”
• Rest of World for “In the Dark,” “How Chinese Citizens Use Puns to Get Past Internet Censors” and “Welcome to the Ambaniverse”

• Harper’s Bazaar for "Origin Story,” photographs by Renell Medrano, "On Beauty," photographs by Cass Bird, Renell Medrano, Josh Olins and Amy Troost, and "On With the Show," photographs by Jody Rogac
• National Geographic for “Notre Dame Rises Again,” photographs by Tomas van Houtryve, “Untouched by Time, This Pristine World Soars High Above the Amazon,” photographs by Matthew Irving, Renan Ozturk and Ryan Valasek, and “Britain's Stone Age Building Boom,” photographs by Reuben Wu and Alice Zoo
• New York for “Voyage of the Gross,” photographs by Thomas Prior, “The Pleasures of Outdoor Dining,” photograph by Beth Sacca, photo-manipulation by Joe Darrow, and “Reasons to Love New York,” photographs by Pelle Cass
• The New Yorker for “A Harrowed Land,” photographs by James Nachtwey, “Waiting for the Bus in Uvalde,” photographs by Greg Miller, and “Blade Runners,” photographs by Philip Montgomery
• Smithsonian for “Gather the Wild Figs,” photographs by Christie Hemm Klok, “The Inner Passage,” photographs by Virginia Richards, and “Flesh, Blood and Bronze,” photographs by Vincent Tullo

• Bon Appétit for “Food Is Queer”
• Louisville With Louisville Public Media for “home.”
• New York for “Ten Years Since Trayvon”
• Stranger’s Guide for “The Ukraine That Was . . . and the One That Will Be”
• Undark for “Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science”

• Golf Digest for “Hot List: 2022 Equipment Guide,” “Build Your Own Bag” and “Surviving the Hot List”
• The Guardian US for “What a Pregnancy Actually Looks Like Before 10 Weeks–In Pictures,” by Poppy Noor
• New York for “The Strategist Holiday Gift Guide”
• Romper for “Best C-Section Ever,” including “What No One Tells You About C-Sections” and “Your Complete Guide To Recovering From a C-Section,” both by Natalia Hailes
• SELF for “The Future of Fitness Issue,” including “The Relentless Reality of Anti-Fatness in Fitness,” by Kelsey Miller, and “6 Ways Fitness Instructors Can Check Their Anti-Fat Bias,” by Jessamyn Stanley

• 5280 for “Stars Bright,” by Jessica LaRusso
• Eater for “The United States of Fried Chicken,” with “Pick the Best Fast Food” and “How LA's Honey's Kettle Has Been Perfecting Fried Chicken for 40 Years—First Person,” produced by Carla Francescutti, and “How Pecking House's Chili Fried Chicken Became a Smash Hit in NYC—First Person,” produced by Connor Reid
• Food & Wine for “The Best Places to Eat Filipino Food in Every State,” by Nicole Adrienne Ponseca and Danielle Muzones, “Pinoy Pride,” by Khushbu Shah, and “Big Dreams in Little Manila With Nicole Ponseca”
• New York for “The Year of the Nepo Baby”
• Texas Monthly for “Springs Eternal!”

• The Atlantic for “The Betrayal,” by George Packer
• ESPN Digital for “Untold,” by Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne
• The Marshall Project With Dallas Morning News for “Anatomy of a Murder Confession,” by Maurice Chammah
• Mother Jones for “She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?,” by Samantha Michaels
• The New York Times Magazine for “The Battle for Baby L.,” by Rozina Ali
• The New Yorker for three articles by Luke Mogelson: “The Wound-Dressers,” “Everyone Is a Target” and “Trapped in the Trenches”
• ProPublica for “The Night Raids,” by Lynzy Billing

• The Believer for “Aristocrat Inc.,” by Natalie So
• Esquire for “The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn’t,” by Chris Heath
• High Country News for “Underwater Legends,” by B. Toastie
• New York for “What the Right Found on Hunter Biden's Laptop,” by Andrew Rice and Olivia Nuzzi
• The New York Times Magazine for “The Mural and the Movement,” by Sarah A. Topol
• The New Yorker for “The Floating World,” by Evan Osnos
• ProPublica With Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for “The Landlord and the Tenant,” by Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica

• The Atlantic for “Absolute Power,” by Graeme Wood, and “American Rasputin,” by Jennifer Senior
• New York for “The Woman Who Killed Roe,” by Kerry Howley
• The New York Times Magazine for two articles by Jazmine Hughes: “Viola Davis, Inside Out” and “Ms. Big Mouth”
• The New Yorker for "Light and Shadow," by Raffi Khatchadourian
• Outside for "School of Rocks," by Sean Williams
• Vanity Fair for “‘Who the Fuck Cares About Adam McKay?,’” by Joe Hagan
• The Verge With Epic Magazine for “Searching for Susy Thunder,” by Claire L. Evans

• The Atlantic for “Monuments to the Unthinkable,” by Clint Smith
• New York for “Tinder Hearted,” by Allison P. Davis
• The New York Times Magazine for two articles by Wesley Morris: “The Majesty, Legacy and Complicated Power of a Good Sob. For Crying Out Loud” and “Trash Nation”
• The New Yorker for three articles by Jia Tolentino: “A Post-Roe Threat,” “The Post-Roe Era” and “Is Abortion Sacred?”
• Stranger’s Guide for “Acid Church,” by Courtney Desiree Morris
• Virginia Quarterly Review for “Reality Marble,” by Joseph Earl Thomas
• The Washington Post Magazine “Why I'm Leaving America,” by DeNeen L. Brown

• Harper’s Magazine for “National Treasure,” by Dan Piepenbring
• Harper’s Bazaar for three articles by Rachel Tashjian: “Christopher John Rogers and the Dawn of the Cultured Zoomer Doyenne,” “The Prada Show Was Confusing. But That’s the Point.” and “I Love Joan Didion’s Stuff”
• New York for three articles by Andrea Long Chu: “Hanya's Boys,” “Ottessa Moshfegh Is Praying for Us” and “The Mixed Metaphor”
• The New York Review of Books for “‘She’s Capital!,’” by Namwali Serpell
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine for two articles by Ligaya Mishan: “Before There Was Man; Before There Was Woman,” and “The Borrowers"

• The Atlantic for "We Need to Take Away Children.," by Caitlin Dickerson
• Glamour for “The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now,” by Natasha Pearlman, and “28 Days,” by Natasha Pearlman and Ruhama Wolle
• The New York Times Magazine for “The Battle Over Gender Therapy,” by Emily Bazelon
• The New Yorker for three articles by Stephania Taladrid: “An Abortion Odyssey,” “Roe’s Final Hours in One of America’s Largest Abortion Clinics” and “The Abortion Underground”
• ProPublica for “Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming,” by Cezary Podkul with Cindy Liu, “What’s a Pig Butchering Scam? Here’s How to Avoid Falling Victim to One.,” by Cezary Podkul, and “Authorities Raid Alleged Cyberscam Compounds in Cambodia,” by Cezary Podkul
• STAT for "Death Sentence," by Nicholas Florko
• Vanity Fair for “The 'Feres' Doctrine: The Fight to End a Systemic Miscarriage of Military Justice,” by Maximillian Potter

The Paris Review for “Trial Run,” by Zach Williams, “Winter Term,” by Michelle de Kretser, and “A Good Samaritan,” by Addie E. Citchens

 

• Alta Journal for “He Dreams About the Bunny Ranch,” by Allie Rowbottom, “Taro,” by Karen Tei Yamashita, and “My Chicano Heart,” by Daniel A. Olivas
• Freeman's for “Star,” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, “On Jawless Fish,” by Tess Gunty, and “The Tongue,” by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Hitomi Yoshio
• The New Yorker for “Occupational Hazards,” by Jamil Jan Kochai, “Peking Duck,” by Ling Ma, and “Café Loup,” by Ben Lerner
• The Yale Review for “The Front House,” by Cord Jefferson, “Regular Visitors,” by Monica Ferrell, and “The Postman,” by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

The Verge for “Homeland”

• Bon Appétit for “Best New Restaurants”
• Kazoo for “The Brave Issue”
• New York for “Ten Years of Re-Re-Re-Re-Downloading Tinder”
• The New York Times Magazine for “The Tech and Design Issue”
  
  

Rolling Stone for “The DJ and the War Crimes”

• Bon Appétit for “10 Best New Restaurants 2022”
• The New York Times Magazine for “A Mystery Hidden in a Family Photograph”
• The New Yorker for “The Blade Runners Powering a Wind Farm”
• The Verge for “The Great Fiction of AI”

The New Yorker for “Waiting for the Bus in Uvalde,” photograph by Greg Miller

• The Hollywood Reporter for “Lupita,” photograph by Christian Cody
• New York for “Reasons to Love New York,” photographs by Pelle Cass
• Noema for “China Dreams of a Palace in the Sky,” photograph by Matjaž Tančič

 

Texas Monthly for “Pull Over!,” photograph by Jeff Wilson

 

• Garden & Gun for “Scoop the Ultimate Southern Sundae,” photograph by Johnny Autry
• New York for “The Pleasures of Outdoor Dining,” photograph by Beth Sacca, photo-manipulation by Joe Darrow
• Women’s Health for “‘I’m a Breast Cancer Survivor and a Proud ‘Flattie.’ Here’s Why I Said No to Reconstructive Surgery,’” photograph by Kimber Capriotti

WIRED for “The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi,” photograph by Jessica Chou

• Bon Appétit for “Ceyenne Doroshow’s ‘Cooking in Heels’ Is a Culinary Ode to Black Trans Womanhood,” photograph by Miranda Barnes
• New York for “The Institution,” photograph by Philip Montgomery
• Texas Highways for “One Man's Treasure,” photograph by Nathan Lindstrom
• Texas Monthly for “Mr. Steal Your Grandma,” photograph by Peter Yang

The New Yorker for “A Harrowed Land,” photographs by James Nachtwey

• The Marshall Project for “‘No Place for a Child,’” photographs by Kirsten Luce
• New York for “Voyage of the Gross,” photographs by Thomas Prior
• The New York Times Magazine for “Vanishing Act,” photographs by Jack Davison
• POLITICO for “Segregated Classrooms, Single-Parent Picnics and Overwhelmed Maternity Wards,” photographs by Nanna Muus Steffensen

 

New York for “What Abortion Actually Looks Like,” photographs by the Abortion Project

• ELLE for “Welcome to the '60s,” photographs by Adrienne Raquel
• The New York Times Magazine for “The Voyages Issue,” photographs by Antoine d'Agata, Lyle Ashton Harris with Ryan Rusiecki, Yael Martínez, Gareth McConnell, Matthew Pillsbury and Robin Schwartz
• Stranger’s Guide for “Turning a Look,” photographs by Léone Julitte
• Texas Observer for “Are You Ok?,” photographs by Jesse Freidin

 

The Atlantic for “My Escape From the Taliban,” illustration by Sally Deng

 

 

• Kazoo for “Look for the Light,” illustration by Lucy Knisley
• New York for “How Blue Man Blew Up,” illustration by André Carrilho
• Noema for “How Black America Fell Out of Love With Africa,” illustration by Uréchi Oguguo
• Vanity Fair for “What Lies Beneath,” illustration by Yuko Shimizu

 

The Marshall Project for “Who’s Really Cycling In and Out of Cleveland’s Courts?,” illustration by Rapapawn

• The Atlantic for “They Called Her ‘Black Jet,’” illustration by Esiri Essi
• Emergence for “When the Earth Started to Sing,” illustration by Daniel Liévano
• The New Yorker for “We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse,” illustration by Chloe Cushman
• POLITICO for “Are You Married to Kellyanne Conway? A Real Therapist Has Some Advice.,” illustration by Michelle Rohn with Getty Images

 

Virginia Quarterly Review for “Drawn to War,” illustrations and text by George Butler

• The Marshall Project for “Judges Have Real Power in Cleveland. Who’s Voting for Them?,” illustrations by John G
• The New York Times Magazine for “The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change,” illustrations by Anuj Shrestha
• The New Yorker for “The Maestro of Madison Square Garden,” illustrations by Millie von Platen
• The Verge for “How to Replace the Sky,” a comic by Matt Huynh

 

Brock Colyar, Features Writer, New York Magazine
Nominated by Carl Swanson, Features Editor, New York Magazine

 

Jerusalem Demsas, Staff Writer, The Atlantic

 

Adrienne N. Green, Deputy Editor, Special Projects, The New York Times Magazine

 

Jack Herrera, Senior Editor, Texas Monthly

 

Nicholas Konrad, Art Director, The New Yorker

 

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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 safeguard the First Amendment, support the development of journalism and defend 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.

 

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
[email protected]

212-872-3723

 

Kaitlyn Kurosky

 

 

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