From the American Society of Magazine Editors:
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced winners of the 2023 National Magazine Awards during a live ceremony held at Terminal 5 in New York City. The 58th annual awards honored 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.
The previously announced 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 were also honored.
Presenters for the awards included Clara Jeffery, editor in chief, Mother Jones, and president, ASME; Alison Overholt, adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and ASME executive committee member; Charles Whitaker, dean, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University; and Amanda Kludt, group publisher, Lifestyle, Vox Media.
In a year that saw the fall of Roe v. Wade, women’s health and family topics were a central theme addressed in work by 2023 National Magazine Award winners. Among the notable pieces were Jia Tolentino’s “A Post-Roe Threat,” “The Post-Roe Era” and “Is Abortion Sacred?” for The New Yorker; Natasha Pearlman’s “The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now” for Glamour; and Romper’s “Best C-Section Ever,” including “What No One Tells You About C-Sections” and “Your Complete Guide To Recovering From a C-Section,” edited by Meaghan O’Connell and Melissa Dahl.
Other winning stories included New York’s buzzy “The Year of the Nepo Baby” and Rozina Ali’s “The Battle for Baby L.” for The New York Times Magazine. Jazmine Hughes, the writer of the award-winning stories in Profile Writing for The New York Times Magazine, “Viola Davis, Inside Out” and “Ms. Big Mouth,” was an ASME NEXT Award winner in 2020.
“ASME is proud to celebrate the achievements and wide-ranging work of the editors, writers, video makers and podcasters that are propelling our industry forward,” said Sidney Holt, executive director of ASME and administrator of the National Magazine Awards. “Tonight, we toasted the winners among 350 of our peers, and we will continue to honor and champion the great and important work journalism plays in our society.”
The New York Times Magazine and New York were multiple award winners this year, with the former winning in Reporting and Profile Writing and the latter winning in Single-Topic Issue and Lifestyle Journalism. Condé Nast was top group publisher with three wins for Glamour (Public Interest), GQ (Design) and The New Yorker (Columns & Essays).
The most prestigious honor, General Excellence, went to four publications. Winners were: The Atlantic, The Marshall Project and two first-time winners, Cook’s Illustrated and Grist.
In other categories, first-time winners were Gimlet (Podcasting), The New York Review of Books (Reviews & Criticism), and Romper (Service Journalism), which was also a first-time nominee.
The ASME Award for Fiction winner was 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 were The Verge (Best Print Design), Rolling Stone (Best Digital Design), The New Yorker (Best News and Entertainment Photograph and Best News and Entertainment Story), Texas Monthly (Best Service and Lifestyle Photograph), WIRED (Best Profile Photograph), 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 were Brock Colyar, features writer, 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; and Nicholas Konrad, art director, The New Yorker.
National Magazine Awards 2023 Winners
1. General Excellence, News, Sports and Entertainment
The Atlantic
2. General Excellence, Service and Lifestyle
Cook’s Illustrated
3. General Excellence, Special Interest
The Marshall Project
4. General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics
Grist
5. Podcasting
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”
6. Video
Mother Jones for “Failure to Protect,” reported by Samantha Michaels, produced by Mark Helenowski
7. Design
GQ for June/July issue, “Metamorphosis” opening spread and “Jacob’s Ladder” opening spread
8. Photography
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
9. Single-Topic Issue
New York for “Ten Years Since Trayvon”
10. Service Journalism
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,” edited by Meaghan O’Connell and Melissa Dahl
11. Lifestyle Journalism
New York for “The Year of the Nepo Baby”
12. Reporting
The New York Times Magazine for “The Battle for Baby L.,” by Rozina Ali
13. Feature Writing
ProPublica and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for “The Landlord and the Tenant,” by Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica
14. Profile Writing
The New York Times Magazine for two articles by Jazmine Hughes: “Viola Davis, Inside Out” and “Ms. Big Mouth”
15. Columns and Essays
The New Yorker for three articles by Jia Tolentino: “A Post-Roe Threat,” “The Post-Roe Era” and “Is Abortion Sacred?”
16. Reviews and Criticism
The New York Review of Books for “‘She’s Capital!,’” by Namwali Serpell
17. Public Interest
Glamour for “The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now,” by Natasha Pearlman, and “28 Days,” by Natasha Pearlman and Ruhama Wolle ASME Award for FictioThe Paris Review for “Trial Run,” by Zach Williams, “Winter Term,” by Michelle de Kretser, and “A Good Samaritan,” by Addie E. Citchens
ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration
Best Print Design
The Verge for “Homeland”
Best Digital Design
Rolling Stone for “The DJ and the War Crimes”
Best News and Entertainment Photograph
The New Yorker for “Waiting for the Bus in Uvalde,” photograph by Greg Miller
Best Service and Lifestyle Photograph
Texas Monthly for “Pull Over!,” photograph by Jeff Wilson
Best Profile Photograph
WIRED for “The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi,” photograph by Jessica Chou
Best News and Entertainment Story
The New Yorker for “A Harrowed Land,” photographs by James Nachtwey
Best Service and Lifestyle Story
New York for “What Abortion Actually Looks Like,” photographs by the Abortion Project
Best Print Illustration
The Atlantic for “My Escape From the Taliban,” illustration by Sally Deng
Best Digital Illustration
The Marshall Project for “Who’s Really Cycling In and Out of Cleveland’s Courts?,” illustration by Rapapawn
Best Illustrated Story
Virginia Quarterly Review for “Drawn to War,” illustrations and text by George Butler
ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30
Brock Colyar, Features Writer, New York Magazine
Nominated by Carl Swanson, Features Editor, New York Magazine
Jerusalem Demsas, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Nominated by Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Adrienne N. Green, Deputy Editor, Special Projects, The New York Times Magazine
Nominated by Jake Silverstein, Editor in Chief, The New York Times Magazine
Jack Herrera, Senior Editor, Texas Monthly
Nominated by Bob Moser, Senior Editor, Texas Monthly
Nicholas Konrad, Art Director, The New Yorker
Nominated by Nicholas Blechman, Creative Director, The New Yorker
