THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCE FINALISTS FOR 2020 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

The New York Times Magazine, New York, National Geographic top list with most nominations for coveted Ellie Awards; annual awards show to be held at Brooklyn Steel on March 12 

Former Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger to receive Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame Award

Pamela Colloff ties record for most nominated female writer in awards history

National Magazine Awards 2020 Finalists

General Excellence, News, Sports and Entertainment

• The California Sunday Magazine
• ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Cover Story
• The Marshall Project
• New York
• The New York Times Magazine

General Excellence, Service and Lifestyle

• Bon Appétit
• Cosmopolitan
• National Geographic Traveler
• SELF
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine

General Excellence, Special Interest

• Atlanta
• Audubon
• The Hollywood Reporter
• National Parks
• The Trace

General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics

• Aperture
• Oxford American
• Quanta
• Stranger’s Guide
• Virginia Quarterly Review

Design

• 1843
• Bon Appétit
• Fast Company
• GQ
• New York

Photography

• Aperture
• GQ
• National Geographic
• TIME
• WSJ. The Wall Street Journal Magazine

Feature Design

• Bon Appétit for “The Hot 10: America’s Best New Restaurants 2019”
• National Geographic for “Countdown to a New Era in Space”
• National Geographic for “Vanishing”
• New York for “How to Major in Unicorn”
• Vox with support from the Pulitzer Center for “These 3 Supertrees Can Protect Us From Climate Collapse”

Feature Photography

• National Geographic for “The Immortal Corpse,” photographs by Lynn Johnson
• New York for “America Has a New National Pastime,” photographs by Martin Schoeller
• The New York Times Magazine for “Brothers, Sisters, Strangers,” photographs by Eli Baden-Lasar
• The New Yorker for “Ghost Towers,” photographs by Hashem Shakeri
• TIME for “A Harbinger of Things to Come,” photographs by Adam Ferguson

Website

• Emergence
• The Marshall Project
• New York
• SELF
• Vox

Digital Innovation

• The Believer with support from the Tran Thi Oanh Black Mountain Institute Fund for “Cabramatta,” by Matt Huynh
• Emergence in partnership with the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival for “Language Keepers,” by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
• The Marshall Project in partnership with the Guardian for “Detained,” by Emily Kassie
• National Geographic for “The Atlas of Moons”
• ProPublica in partnership with the Charleston Gazette-Mail for “A Guide to Every Permitted Natural Gas Well in West Virginia,” by Al Shaw, ProPublica, and Kate Mishkin, The Charleston Gazette-Mail

Social Media

• Bon Appétit for “Thanksgiving”
• Mother Jones for “Disinformation”
• National Geographic for “Wildlife Tourism”
• The New Yorker for “The Food Issue”
• SELF for “Reproductive Healthcare”

Podcasting

• Gimlet for two episodes of “Reply All”: “Feral Hogs,” hosted by PJ Vogt, and “The Real Enemy,” hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman
• Longreads in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting for three episodes of “Bundyville: The Remnant”: “The Explosion,” “The Bomber” and “The Martyr”
• The New York Times Magazine for three episodes of “1619,” hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones: “The Fight for a True Democracy,” “The Economy That Slavery Built” and “The Birth of American Music”
• The New York Times Magazine for three episodes of “Still Processing,” hosted by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham: “Yeehaw,” “Chappelle” and “Wake”
• ProPublica and WNYC for three episodes of “Trump, Inc.”: “How a Nigerian Presidential Candidate Hired a Trump Lobbyist and Ended Up in Trump’s Lobby,” hosted by Ilya Marritz and Meg Cramer; “Ukraine,” by Andrea Bernstein, Katie Zavadski, Jake Pearson and Ilya Marritz; and “The Diplomat, the Machers, and the Oligarch,” hosted by Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein

Video

• Bon Appétit with Condé Nast Entertainment for three episodes of “Gourmet Makes” with Claire Saffitz: “Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ferrero Rocher,” “Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Hot Pockets” and “Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ruffles”
• National Geographic for “She Donated Her Body to Science, and Now She’ll Live Forever,” by Lynn Johnson
• The New Yorker for “A Line Birds Cannot See,” directed and produced by Amy Bench
• Topic for “Dieorama,” directed by Kevin Staake
• VICE News for “Outlaw Erections,” by Oliver Noble, Michael Shade and Jed Oelbaum

Single-Topic Issue

• Bloomberg Businessweek for “The Elements”
• MIT Technology Review for  “The China Issue”
• National Geographic for “A World on the Move”
• Popular Science for “Make It Last”
• The Washington Post Magazine for “Prison”

Personal Service

• Audubon for “Start Here! Your Guide to Climate Action,” reporting and editing by Andrew Del-Colle, Breanna Draxler, Kevin Dupzyk, Rene Ebersole, Martha Harbison, Janet Marinelli, Andy McGlashen and Hannah Waters
• Cosmopolitan for “Your Non-Scary Guide to Going to Rehab,” by Andrea Stanley, and “How to Go to Rehab,” by Kiera Carter and Kaitlin Menza
• O, The Oprah Magazine for “The Agony and, Yes, the Ecstasy of Menopause,” by Robin Marantz Henig
• Philadelphia for “Ouch,” by Brian Howard, and “Win the War on Drugs,” by Gina Tomaine
• SELF for “Black Maternal Mortality”

Leisure Interests

• 5280 for “Sheer Beauty,” by Lindsey B. King
• Bon Appétit for “Absolutely Perfect,” by Alex Beggs, and “Making Perfect: Thanksgiving”
• New York for “The Great Pod Rush Has Only Just Begun”
• Texas Monthly for “Long Live Honky Tonks!” by Christian Wallace
• Whisky Advocate for “The World’s Greatest Whisky Cities”

Reporting

• Fortune for “Epidemic of Fear,” by Erika Fry
• Mother Jones in partnership with Type Investigations for “Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire,” by Seth Freed Wessler
• New York for “Before, and After, the Jogger,” by Sarah Weinman
• The New York Times Magazine in partnership with ProPublica for “False Witness,” by Pamela Colloff
• The Verge for two articles by Casey Newton: “The Trauma Floor” and “Bodies in Seats”

Feature Writing

• The Believer for “Las Marthas,” by Jordan Kisner
• Bloomberg Businessweek for “Vanillanomics,” by Monte Reel
• Harper’s Magazine for “Lost at Sea,” by Joe Kloc
• The New York Times Magazine for “All That Glitters,” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The New York Times Magazine for “The Schoolteacher and the Genocide,” by Sarah A. Topol
• The New Yorker for “Unlike Any Other,” by Nick Paumgarten
• Texas Monthly for “Angels in East Texas,” by Wes Ferguson

Profile Writing

• The Georgia Review for “Jerry’s Dirt,” by Jacob Baynham
• New York for “Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy,” by Rebecca Traister
• New York for “Walking Time Bomb,” by Amy Wallace
• The New York Times Magazine for “Rick Steves Wants to Set You Free,” by Sam Anderson
• The New Yorker for “What Are You Laughing At?” by Vinson Cunningham

Essays and Criticism

• The Believer for “Good Shepherds,” by Meghan O’Gieblyn
• Pitchfork for three reviews by Rawiya Kameir: “Ariana Grande: ‘thank u, next,’” “Lizzo: ‘Cuz I Love You’” and “Kanye West: ‘Jesus Is King’”
• Poetry for “Tactile Art,” by John Lee Clark
• The Nation in partnership with Type Media Center for “India: Intimations of an Ending,” by Arundhati Roy
• Virginia Quarterly Review for “The Ladder Up,” by Carina del Valle Schorske

Columns and Commentary

• Catapult for three columns by s.e. smith: “When Disability Is a Toxic Legacy,” “The Ugly Beautiful and Other Failings of Disability Representation” and “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health and Medication”
• Foreign Policy for four articles from “Decoder”: “India Has a Mindset Problem,” by Ravi Agrawal; “Why Young Koreans Love to Splurge,” by Jeongmin Kim; “Repent for Your Frequent Flyer Miles!” by Peter Kuras; and “Ukrainian Corruption Is Trump’s Native Language,” by Marci Shore
• The New Yorker for three columns by Jia Tolentino: “Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion,” “Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You” and “E. Jean Carroll’s Accusation Against Donald Trump, and the Raising, and Lowering, of the Bar”
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine for three columns by Ligaya Mishan: “Nothing Sacred,” “An Assault on the Tongue” and “Interlopers”
• Texas Monthly for three columns by Sterry Butcher: “Lines Through the Sand,” “Thoughts on a Mixed-up Horse” and “Man of Letters”

Public Interest

• Consumer Reports for three articles by Rachel Rabkin Peachman: “Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play Sleeper Should Be Recalled, Consumer Reports Says,” “Decades-Old Law Hides Dangerous Products and Impedes Recalls” and “Inclined Sleeper Deaths Rise to 50 as Industry Continues to Sell the Products”
• The New York Times Magazine for “The 1619 Project”
• The New York Times Magazine for “The China Connection,” by Alex W. Palmer
• ProPublica for three articles from the series “Disaster in the Pacific”: “Fight the Ship,” by T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi; “Blame Over Justice,” by Megan Rose; and “Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings,” by Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller
• Texas Monthly and the Texas Tribune with support from the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists for  “No Defense,” by Neena Satija

ASME Award for Fiction

Winner 

The Paris Review for “Under the Ackee Tree,” by Jonathan Escoffery; “Foxes,” by Kimberly King Parsons; and “Howl Palace,” by Leigh Newman

Finalists 

• Ecotone for “Horse,” by Dawna Kemper; “Organ Cave,” by Mesha Maren; and “Waltz,” by Erin Somers
• The New Yorker for “Javi,” by Han Ong; “God’s Caravan,” by Tiphanie Yanique; and “The Trip,” by Weike Wang
• Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern for “Ghost Lover,” by Lisa Taddeo; “After the Birds,” by Ope Adedeji; and “The Woman in the Closet,” by Mimi Lok
• Zoetrope: All-Story for “24, Alhaji Williams Street,” by ’Pemi Aguda; “The Grotesques,” by Sarah Hall; and “Downstream,” by Thomas Pierce

ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30

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

ASME NEXT Awards 2020 Recipients 

• Tyler Foggatt, Associate Editor, The New Yorker
• Jazmine Hughes, Staff Editor, The New York Times Magazine
• Miles Kohrman, Special Projects Editor, The Trace
• Natalie Krebs, Senior Editor, Outdoor Life and Field & Stream
• Sarah Esther Maslin, Brazil Correspondent, The Economist

Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame

The Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame was established in 1995 by the American Society of Magazine Editors to recognize the editorial achievements and career accomplishments of leading journalists. 

Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame 2020 Honoree 

David Granger
Award presented by Tom Junod

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 for Print and Digital Media in association with the Columbia Journalism School, conducts training programs for reporters and editors and publishes the ASME Guidelines for Editors and Publishers.