Vox Media Sweeps Up 12 National Magazine Award Nominations

Today Vox Media’s brands were nominated for twelve National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). New York Magazine secured nine spanning the general excellence, design, feature design, feature photography, website, leisure interests, reporting, and profile writing categories. The Verge’s Casey Newton earned nominations in the reporting category for his reporting on the traumatic working conditions of Facebook content moderators in America. Vox was nominated in the website category, as well as in the feature design category for its project on Supertrees produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

The nominations come at the end of a big year for Vox Media following its merger with New York Media last fall.

Award winners will be announced Thursday, March 12. The full slate of nominations for New York, Vox, and The Verge is listed below.

General Excellence, News, Sports, and Entertainment

• New York

Design

• New York

Feature Design

• New York for “How to Major in Unicorn”

• Vox for “These 3 Supertrees Can Protect Us From Climate Collapse”

Feature Photography

• New York for “America Has a New National Pastime,” photographs by Martin Schoeller

Website

• New York

• Vox

Leisure Interests

• New York for “The Great Pod Rush Has Only Just Begun”

Reporting

• New York for “Before, and After, the Jogger,” by Sarah Weinman

• The Verge for two articles by Casey Newton: “The Trauma Floor” and “Bodies in Seats”

Profile Writing

• New York for “Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy,” by Rebecca Traister

• New York for “Walking Time Bomb,” by Amy Wallace