New York Leads National Magazine Award Nominees For Third Year

The American Society of Magazine Editors released its list of finalists for this year's National Magazine Awards—also known as the Ellies, after the Alexander Calder designed elephant-shaped statue given to winners. For the third year in a row, New York magazine led the pack of print and digital publications with an impressive nine nominations, including one for Magazine of the Year.

The New York Times Magazine followed with seven nominations, GQ with six, The New Yorker with five and Bon Appétit with four. Matter, National Geographic and Poetry each received three nominations, while Vice and Vice News also had a combined three nods.

In addition to New York, the titles nominated for Magazine of the Year included The Atlantic, The Hollywood Reporter (which also received a General Excellence nod), National Geographic, New York and The New Yorker.

Twelve publications were first-time finalists this year, including BBC News Magazine, BuzzFeed News, Car and Driver, Eater, FamilyFun, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post Highline, The Intercept, Lucky Peach, the Marshall Project, ProPublica and WSJ magazine.

The awards ceremony—which also marks the Ellies' 50th anniversary—will take place on Monday, Feb. 1 in New York.

Read on for a full list of the nominees.
 

General Excellence: News, Sports and Entertainment

• Esquire
• Fast Company
• GQ; New York
• The New York Times Magazine
• The New Yorker
• Newsweek

General Excellence: Service and Lifestyle

• Bon Appétit
• Golf Digest
• Harper's Bazaar
• Lucky Peach
• Parents
• Seventeen
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine

General Excellence: Special Interest

• Backpacker
• Car and Driver
• The Hollywood Reporter
• Modern Farmer
• San Francisco
• Smithsonian
• Tablet Magazine

General Excellence: Literature, Science and Politics

• Aperture
• Foreign Affairs
• Nautilus
• The Oxford American
• Poetry
• Virginia Quarterly Review

Design

• Bon Appétit
• GQ
• New York
• The Pitchfork Review
• Wired

Photography

• The California Sunday Magazine
• National Geographic
• New York
• Vanity Fair
• WSJ.

Single-Topic Issue

• Bloomberg Businessweek for "Code: An Essay," June 15-28
• National Geographic for "The Climate Issue," November
• The New York Times Magazine for "Walking New York," April 26
• San Francisco for "The Chinese-American City," April
• Vice for "The Prison Issue," October

Website

• Audubon
• Bloomberg Businessweek
• New York
• Refinery29
• Vogue

Multimedia

• BBC News Magazine (US) for "The Hurricane Station," by Rajini Vaidyanathan, August 24 at bbc.com/news/magazine
• New York for "This Is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn," at nymag.com and November 16-22 print issue
• The New York Times Magazine for "Desperate Crossing," photography and video by Paolo Pellegrin, text by Scott Anderson, at nytimes.com and September 6 print issue
• Runner's World for 40 Million Steps Around the World," at runnersworld.com and April print issue
• Slate for "The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes," by Andrew Kahn and Jamelle Bouie, June 25 at slate.com

Video

• GQ for "Inside the Atlanta Strip Club That Runs Hip Hop," by Lauren Greenfield, July 10 at gq.com
• The New York Times Magazine for "Walking New York," by JR, Chris Milk and Zach Richter, April 23 at nytimes.com
• Pitchfork for "Vince Stapes—Over/Under," July 1, "Rick Ross—Over/Under," December 11, and "T-Pain—Over/Under," September 29, at youtube.com
• Vice for "Red Right Hand: The Cleveland Strangler," November 3 at vice.com
• Vice News for "Selfie Soldiers: Russia's Army Checks In to Ukraine," June 16 at news.vice.com

Public Interest

• BuzzFeed News for "The New American Slavery," July 24, and "All You Americans Are Fired," December 1, by Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger and Jeremy Singer-Vine, at buzzfeed.com
• Cosmopolitan for "Pregnant? Scared? Need Options? Too Bad," August print issue, "Save the Mother, Save the Baby," April 6 at cosmopolitan.com, and "I Felt Set Up," December 17 at cosmopolitan.com, by Meaghan Winter
• The Huffington Post for "Dying To Be Free," by Jason Cherkis, January 28 at huffingtonpost.com
• The Huffington Post Highline for "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia," by Mariah Blake,  August 27 at highline.huffingtonpost.com
• The Intercept for "The Teflon Toxin," August 11, "The Case Against DuPont," August 17, and "How DuPont Slipped Past the EPA," August 20, by Sharon Lerner at theintercept.com

Personal Service

• Cooking Light for "The Healthy Cook's Guide to Fat," by Sidney Fry, MS, RD, and Robin Bashinsky, November
• Cosmopolitan for "Surf the New Wave: Cosmo's Guide to the Modern Period," by Laura Bell and Anna Maltby, November
• FamilyFun for "The Happy Family Playbook," by Jennifer King Lindley, May
• Popular Mechanics for "How to Buy a Car," July/August
• Wired for "All Work and All Play," by Rashida Jones, July

Leisure Interests

• Bon Appétit for "Cook Like a Pro," April
• Eater for "The Eater Guide to Surviving Disney World," August 26 at eater.com
• GQ for "What's Blowing Up," April
• Los Angeles for "Taco City," July, and "Taco Week," July 20, by Lesley Bargar Suter With Bill Esparza at lamag.com
• Sunset for "Welcome to Camp Sunset," May

Magazine Section

• Backpacker for "The Play List"
• Bon Appétit for "BA Kitchen"
• GQ for "Manual"
• New York for "The Culture Pages"
• Popular Mechanics for "How Your World Works"

Reporting

• The Atlantic for "Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?" by Jeffrey Goldberg, April
• Matter for "Ghost Boat," by Eric Reidy, October 7 at medium.com/matter
• Matter for "My Nurses Are Dead and I Don't Know If I'm Already Infected," by Joshua Hammer, January 12 at medium.com/matter
• Mother Jones for "The Fever [How the Government Put Tens of Thousands of People at Risk of a Deadly Disease]," by David Ferry, January/February
• The New York Times Magazine for "Purgatory [The Deported]," by Luke Mogelson, December 13
• The New Yorker for "Where the Bodies Are Buried," by Patrick Radden Keefe, March 16
• Rolling Stone for "Yemen's Hidden War," by Matthieu Aikins, August 13

Feature Writing

• Bicycling for "Spun," by Steve Friedman, June
• Chicago for "Here We Are," by Scott Blackwood, November
• ESPN The Magazine for "The Education of Alex Rodriguez," by J.R. Moehringer, March 2
• The Marshall Project in Partnership With ProPublica for "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller, December 16 at themarshallproject.org
• New York for "The Hustlers at Scores," by Jessica Pressler, December 28, 2015-January 10, 2016
• The New York Times Magazine for "The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield," by Daniel Engber, October 25
• The New Yorker for "The Really Big One," by Kathryn Schulz, July 20

Feature Photography


• The California Sunday Magazine for "In the Tenderloin," photographs by Pieter Hugo,  May 3
• New York for "The Seven Ages of Woman," portfolio by Rachel Feinstein, August 10-23
• Politico for "Front Row at the Political Theater," photographs by Mark Peterson, November/December
• Vanity Fair for "He Says Goodbye, She Says Hello," by Buzz Bissinger, photographs by Annie Leibovitz, July
• W for "Best Performances," by Lynn Hirschberg, photographs by Tim Walker, February

Essays and Criticism

• Condé Nast Traveler for "Postcard From East Africa," by Jonathan Franzen, September
• Esquire for "The Friend," by Matthew Teague, May
• GQ for "The Accident," by Michael Paterniti, March
• Matter for "Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours," by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil, June 29 at medium.com/matter
• Poetry for "How It Feels," by Jenny Zhang, July/August

Columns and Commentary

• ESPN The Magazine for three "The Truth" columns by Howard Bryant: "Down for the Count," July 20, "The King Has Spoken," September 14, and "The Power of Sight," October 12
• Harper's Magazine for three "Easy Chair" columns by Rebecca Solnit: "Abolish High School," April, "In the Shadow of the Storm," August, and "The Mother of All Questions," October
• The Intercept for three "The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Prison" columns by Barrett Brown: "Stop Sending Me Jonathan Franzen Novels," October 6, "A Visit to the Sweat Lodge," July 16, and "Santa Muerte, Full of Grace," August 24
• The New York Times Magazine for three "On Photography" columns by Teju Cole: "A True Picture of Black Skin," February 22, "Shadows in São Paulo," August 23, and "The Shadow Remains," October 18
• Poetry for three "Poetry Magazine Podcasts": "Cast Poems in the River and Tell Them You Remember," April 1, "Cranberry Cranberry Cranberry," July 1, and "Things No Longer There," September 1

Fiction

• Harper's Magazine for "Interesting Facts," by Adam Johnson, June
• The New Yorker for "Who Will Greet You at Home," by Lesley Nneka Arimah, October 26
• Zoetrope: All-Story for "The Grozny Tourist Bureau," by Anthony Marra, Fall

Magazine of the Year

• The Atlantic
• The Hollywood Reporter
• National Geographic
• New York
• The New Yorker