Finalists for the 2022 National Magazine Awards

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2022 National Magazine Awards. The 57^th annual awards honor magazines and websites for editorial excellence in categories ranging from Reporting and Photography to Podcasting and Video. ASME will announce the winners of the National Magazine Awards on April 5. The finalists and winners of the ASME Award for Fiction, the ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration, and the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 will also be honored.

“ASME is proud to present this year’s National Magazine Award finalists, a terrific representation of both print and digital journalism,” said Sid Holt, executive director of ASME. “We’re also delighted that after two years of virtual awards shows, we’ll be able to celebrate the finalists and winners in person.”

In 2022, 15 titles received multiple nominations across 16 categories. New York leads the nominations with eight. Other titles with multiple nominations include 5280, AARP The Magazine, The Atavist, The Atlantic, Audubon, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, ProPublica, Quanta, Stranger’s Guide and TIME.

Twenty publications are nominated for the most prestigious honor, General Excellence. Repeat finalists this year are The Atlantic, Audubon, New York, The New York Times Magazine and Stranger’s Guide. First-time finalists in this category include The Athletic, Grist, High Country News and The Nation.

Finalists nominated for the first time in any category include Airloom Media, The Athletic, Bloomberg Green, Columbus Monthly, Crooked Media, Insider, The Journal, Pineapple Street Studios, Pipe Wrench, Undark and The Yale Review.

ASME also today announced both finalists and winners for the ASME Award for Fiction, ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration and the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30. The ASME Award for Fiction winner is The Georgia Review for “After God, Fear Women,” by Eloghosa Osunde, “Come With Me,” by Nishanth Injam, and “Copper Queen,” by Aryn Kyle.

Winners of the ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration are Catapult, InStyle, National Geographic, New York, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Southern Living and The Verge.

The honorees for ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 are Karen Hao, senior AI editor, MIT Technology Review; Jamie Lauren Keiles, contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine; Katy Schneider, features editor, New York; Stephania Taladrid, contributing writer, The New Yorker; and Cat Zhang, assistant editor, Pitchfork.

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-quality journalism published in any medium.

Two hundred and twenty-four national and regional media organizations submitted entries this year, including 486 in print, 484 in digital and 104 in multiplatform.

The 209 print- and digital-magazine editors, art directors, photo editors and journalism educators who judged the National Magazine Awards this year met virtually in January to choose the 2022 finalists.

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

• The Athletic
• The Atlantic
• New York
• The New York Times Magazine
• WIRED

2.     General Excellence, Service and Lifestyle

• AFAR
• Bon Appétit
• ELLE
• Harper’s Bazaar
• Outside                                                                                                                       

• Audubon
• Car and Driver
• Columbia Journalism Review
• High Country News
• The Trace

4.     General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics

• The Georgia Review
• Grist
• The Nation
• Quanta
• Stranger’s Guide

• Airloom Media for three episodes of “Third Squad,” hosted by Elliott Woods: “Keep Pushin’,” “A Soldier’s Heart” and “Husband, Father, Killer”
• C13Originals with Campside Media for three episodes of “Fallen Angel,” hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis and Justine Harman: “Thong Song,” “Emotional Content” and “Fantasy Town, USA”
• Crooked Media for three episodes of “This Land,” hosted by Rebecca Nagle: “Solomon’s Sword,” “Behind the Curtain” and “Grandma Versus the Foster Parents”
• The Journal, a Co-Production from Gimlet Media and The Wall Street Journal, for three episodes of “To the Moon,” hosted by Annie Minoff: “How Much Do Islands Cost?,” “Diamond Hands” and “The Comedown”
• Pineapple Street Studios for two episodes of “The 11th,” hosted by Hanif Abdurraqib: “Time Machine: The Score (Side A)” and “Time Machine: The Score (Side B)”

• The Atavist for three videos from “A Feast for Lost Souls,” directed by Zahara Gómez Lucini: “Manqui,” “Juana” and “Blanca”
• Epicurious for “How to Serve Every Cheese,” with Anne Saxelby
• The New Yorker for “A Reporter’s Video From Inside the Capitol Siege,” by Luke Mogelson
• ProPublica with TIME, Truly CA and Univision Noticias for “Unlivable Oasis,” by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Elizabeth Weil
• TIME for “Milk Factory,” directed by Corinne May Botz, and “My Name Is Mookie,” directed by Francesca Trianni

• Emergence for “They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration”
• Fast Company for “The Most Creative People in Business 2021”
• McSweeney’s Quarterly for “McSweeney’s 64: The Audio Issue”
• National Geographic for “Solar System in Action” and “Small Wonders”
• New York for “All Work, No Pay,” “Before, During, After January 6” and “Reckoning With a Reckoning”

• ESSENCE for “Of Earth & Sky,” photographs by Lorna Simpson
• National Geographic for “Swarm,” photographs by Charlie Hamilton James
• Poetry for “From ‘Crowns,’” poems by Patricia Smith; photographs by Sandro Miller
• Stranger’s Guide for “El Chocó,” photographs by Kike Arnal, “Exodus,” photographs by Nicoló Filippo Rosso, and “Reggaeton,” photographs by David Estrada Larrañeta
• TIME for “The Cost”

• Bloomberg Businessweek for “The Heist Issue”
• Columbus Monthly for “Racial Divide: A Special Issue,” guest edited by Wil Haygood
• Kazoo for “The Art Issue”
• New York for “Remember the Office?”
• Popular Science for “The Heat Issue”

• 5280 for “Shattered Minds,” by Lindsey B. King
• AARP The Magazine for “The Back-to-Normal Health Plan,” by Mike Zimmerman
• New York for “Natural Hair, Now”
• SELF for “Black Women and Breast Cancer”
• Women’s Health for “We Need to Change How We Talk About Abortion,” by Kristin Canning

• 5280 for “The Beginner’s Guide to Winter Camping,” by Lindsey B. King
• AARP The Magazine for “The Games We Play,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and “The Barrier Breakers,” as told to Jon Saraceno
• Eater for “Filling Up”
• Insider for “259 LGBTQ Characters in Cartoons That Bust the Myth That Kids Can’t Handle Inclusion”
• New York for “Thank You, Dr. Zizmor,” by Stella Bugbee
• The New Yorker for “How to Cook With Your Microwave,” “The Timeless Fantasy of Stanley Tucci Eating Italian Food” and “How to Get a Table at Carbone,” by Helen Rosner
• Texas Highways for “The Original Cowboys,” by Katie Gutierrez, “The Evolution of the Texas Cowgirl,” by Sarah Hepola, and “Fight or Flight,” by W.K. Stratton

• Harper’s Magazine for “The Lightning Farm,” by Caroline Lester
• The Hollywood Reporter for “Scott Rudin: ‘Unhinged’” and “Shielding Scott Rudin,” by Tatiana Siegel
• The New York Times Magazine for “The Collapse,” by Matthieu Aikins
• The New Yorker with The Outlaw Ocean Project for “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe,” by Ian Urbina
• Quanta for “The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works,” by Natalie Wolchover
• Texas Observer with Support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism for “Locked Up and Left to Die,” by Michael Barajas and Sophie Novack
• Undark for “Below Aging U.S. Dams, a Potential Toxic Calamity,” by James Dinneen and Alexander Kennedy

• The Atlantic for “Twenty Years Gone,” by Jennifer Senior
• Harper’s Magazine for “These Precious Days,” by Ann Patchett
• New York for “Gina. Rosanne. Guy.,” by Kerry Howley
• The New York Times Magazine for “I Feel Like I’m Just Drowning,” by Susan Dominus, and “Searching for Gayl Jones,” by Imani Perry
• The New Yorker for “The Kentler Experiment,” by Rachel Aviv
• ProPublica with Nashville Public Radio for “Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge,” by Meribah Knight, Nashville Public Radio, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica
• Texas Monthly for “The Resurrection of Bass Reeves,” by Christian Wallace

• The Atavist for “Invisible Kid,” by Maddy Crowell
• Bicycling for “Justin Williams Can See the Future,” by Carvell Wallace
• ESPN.com for “Is Jake Paul Bad for Boxing? Next Question,” by Dotun Akintoye
• New York for “Infinite Self,” by E. Alex Jung
• The New Yorker for “Past Imperfect,” by Rachel Aviv
• Pipe Wrench for “If We Can Soar: What Birmingham Roller Pigeons Offer the Men of South Central,” by Shanna B. Tiayon
• ProPublica for “The Child Care Industry Was Collapsing. Mrs. Jackie Bet Everything on an Impossible Dream to Save It,” by Lizzie Presser

• Alta Journal for “Butchering the Mythic West” and “Falling,” by John Freeman
• Audubon for “What Do We Do About John James Audubon?,” by J. Drew Lanham
• Bloomberg Businessweek for “How I Helped My Dad Die,” by Esmé E. Deprez
• Harper’s Magazine for “Put on the Diamonds,” by Vivian Gornick
• New York for “Them Is Pure Degradation Porn,” “The Underground Railroad Is the Cinematic Event of the Year” and “Cruella Is the Girl-Bossification of the Madwoman,” by Angelica Jade Bastién
• The New York Times Magazine for “Bodies on the Line,” by Carina del Valle Schorske
• The Yale Review for “The Wrong Daddy,” by Jeremy Atherton Lin 

• The Atlantic for “Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri,” “How the Pandemic Now Ends” and “We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic,” by Ed Yong
• Bloomberg Green with Bloomberg Businessweek for “The Methane Hunters,” by Zachary R. Mider, “An Empire of Dying Wells,” by Zachary R. Mider and Rachel Adams-Heard, and “Turkmenistan’s Dirty Secret,” by Aaron Clark and Matthew Campbell
• BuzzFeed News for “Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, and Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry,” “They Both Fought to Break Free From Guardianship. Only One Escaped” and “‘My Human Rights Are Being Violated’: Fighting A Family Conservatorship,” by Heidi Blake and Katie J.M. Baker
• The New York Times Magazine for “Hidden Files Bare Military Failures in Deadly Strikes” and “The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars,” by Azmat Khan
• The New Yorker for “Storm Chasers,” by Sarah Stillman, November 8
• ProPublica for “Poison in the Air,” by Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, “The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.,” by Al Shaw and Lylla Younes, and “The Dirty Secret of America’s Clean Dishes,” by Max Blau and Lylla Younes
• Virginia Quarterly Review for “Cold War, Hot Mess,” by Lois Parshley

The Georgia Review for “After God, Fear Women,” by Eloghosa Osunde, “Come With Me,” by Nishanth Injam and “Copper Queen,” by Aryn Kyle

• Harper’s Magazine for “Greensleeves,” by Hermione Hoby, “Place of Safety,” by Tony Earley, and “Women Corinne Does Not Actually Know,” by Rebecca Makkai
• McSweeney’s Quarterly for “Bears Among the Living,” by Kevin Moffett, “The Mating Call,” by Mikkel Rosengaard, and “An Unlucky Man,” by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
• The New Yorker for “Good-Looking,” by Souvankham Thammavongsa, “Featherweight,” by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, and “Selection Week,” by hurmat kazmi
• Stranger’s Guide for “A Beginner’s Guide to Estrangement,” by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, “A Sudden Liberating Thought,” by Kjell Askildsen, translated by Seán Kinsella, and “King of the Tyrant Lizards,” by Malerie Willens

The New Yorker for “The Long Prologue to the Capitol Hill Riot,” photograph by Balazs Gardi

• The Economist’s 1843 Magazine for “They Stormed the Capitol, Then Posed for Selfies,” photograph by Wolfgang Schwan
• National Geographic for “2020: 71 Photographs From an Unforgettable Year,” photograph by Kris Graves
• The New Yorker for “Knicks Fans Are Together Again, for Better and Worse,” photograph by Mark Peterson
• TIME for “George Floyd’s Family Reacted to the Verdict With an Uncontrollable Cry. That Sound Echoes Through Black America,” photograph by Ruddy Roye

National Geographic for “Cheetahs for Sale,” photograph by Nichole Sobecki

• New York for “55 Truly Surprising, Strange and Immensely Pleasing Gifts Over $200,” photograph by Joe Lingeman
• New York for “Best Bets: Sweat,” photograph by Rob Frogoso

InStyle for “The First,” photograph by Camila Falquez

• New York for “‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo,’” photograph by Ashley Peña
• Rolling Stone for “John David Washington Does the Right Thing,” photograph by Dario Calmese
• TIME for “Elliot Page Is Ready for This Moment,” photograph by Wynne Neilly
• Vanity Fair for “Postcards From the Edge,” photograph by Bruce Gilden

New York for “New Yawk Style,” photograph by Bobby Doherty

• National Geographic for “L.A.’s Tree Canopy Reflects Urban Inequity,” photograph by Elliot Ross
• The New Yorker for “Acorn,” photograph by Kyoko Hamada

New York for “What’s Going On in Washington Square Park?,” photographs by Daniel Arnold and Daniel Galicia

• National Geographic for “A War on Itself,” photographs by Lynsey Addario
• The New Yorker for “Height of Glamour,” photographs by Piczo
• TIME for “George Floyd’s Family Reacted to the Verdict With an Uncontrollable Cry. That Sound Echoes Through Black America,” photographs by Ruddy Roye
• WSJ. Magazine for “Why Sesame Street Is More Vital Than Ever,” photographs by Dario Catellani

Southern Living for “The Magic of Meringue,” photographs by Antonis Achilleos

• New York for “Natural Hair, Now,” photographs by Delphine Diallo
• SAVEUR for “Meet Manhattan’s New Guard of Wine Pros,” photographs by Paola + Murray
• STAT for “Distanced,” photographs by Bethany Mollenkof
• TIME for “A Year in a School Bus,” photographs by Nina Riggio

The New Yorker for “Saving the Butterfly Forest,” photographs by Brendan George Ko

• Noema for “The Last of the Marsh Arabs,” photographs by Emily Garthwaite
• Texas Monthly for “The Unsheltered,” photographs by Richard Sharum
• TIME with the Pulitzer Center for “An American Emergency,” photographs by Adam Ferguson
• Virginia Quarterly Review for “Dark City,” photographs by Dina Litovsky

Rolling Stone for “The Enemy Within,” illustration by Brian Stauffer

• Grow by Ginkgo for “A Feeling for the Organism,” illustration by Debora Cheyenne Cruchon
• New York for “The Lunacy of Text-Based Therapy,” illustration by Pablo Rochat
• The New Yorker for “My Gentile Region,” illustration by Javier Jaén
• Texas Monthly for “Why Selena Still Matters,” illustration by Mercedes deBellard

The Verge for “Verge 10,” illustration by Micha Huigen

• New York for “‘I Got Ghosted. Big Time,’” illustration by Pedro Nekoi
• The New Yorker for “Medicine’s Wellness Conundrum,” illustration by Debora Cheyenne
• Noema for “Making Common Sense,” illustration by Noah Campeau
• POLITICO for “Caitlyn Jenner Wants to Turn Celebrity Into Power. But Why?,” illustration by Arn0

Catapult for “I Do Not Want to Write Today: A Comic,” illustrations by Shing Yin Khor

• The Believer for “The Places We Lost,” illustrations by Kathy MacLeod
• Kazoo for “Spirit of the Arts,” illustrations by MariNaomi
• The Marshall Project for “How We Survived COVID-19 in Prison,” illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff, Kayla Salisbury, Hannah Buckman and Acacio Ortas
• The Verge for “What The Verge Covered in Our First 120,000 Stories,” illustrations by Kristen Radtke

Karen Hao, Senior AI Editor, MIT Technology Review
Nominated by Niall Firth, Editorial Director, Digital, MIT Technology Review

Jamie Lauren Keiles, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
Nominated by Willy Staley, Story Editor, The New York Times Magazine

Katy Schneider, Features Editor, New York
Nominated by Alexis Swerdloff, Deputy Editor, New York

Stephania Taladrid, Contributing Writer, The New Yorker
Nominated by David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker

Cat Zhang, Assistant Editor, Pitchfork
Nominated by Puja Patel, Editor in Chief, Pitchfork

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About ASME

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.