Vox Media Receives 9 National Magazine Award Nominations; Wins an ASME Next Award and 3 ASME Awards for Photography & Illustration

Vox Media networks Eater, New York Magazine, and The Verge were recognized yesterday by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) with multiple awards and nominations recognizing work across written journalism, photography, and illustration. New York received eight National Magazine Award nominations, the most of any magazine this year; its features editor Katy Schneider won an ASME Next Award for journalists under 30; and in the ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration it won two awards and received six additional nominations. Eater was nominated for the National Magazine Award for Lifestyle Journalism, and The Verge won a Photography and Illustration Award and was nominated for another. Winners of the National Magazine Awards will be announced on April 5th.

The full slate of wins and nominations for Vox Media is listed below.

National Magazine Nominations:

Eater:

• Lifestyle Journalism for “Filling Up”

New York:

• General Excellence, News, Sports, and Entertainment
• Design, for “All Work, No Pay,” “Before, During, After January 6” and “Reckoning With a Reckoning”
• Single-Topic Issue, for “Remember the Office?”
• Service Journalism, for “Natural Hair, Now”
• Lifestyle Journalism, for “Thank You, Dr. Zizmor,” by Stella Bugbee
• Feature Writing, for “Gina. Rosanne. Guy.,” by Kerry Howley
• Profile Writing, or “Infinite Self,” by E. Alex Jung
• Essays and Criticism, 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

ASME Next Awards for journalists under 30:

• Katy Schneider, New York Magazine features editor (nominated by Alexis Swerdloff, deputy editor, New York)

ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration:

New York Magazine:

• Best News and Entertainment Story (winner) for “What’s Going On in Washington Square Park?,” photographs by Daniel Arnold and Daniel Galicia
• Best Conceptual Photograph (winner) for “New Yawk Style,” photograph by Bobby Doherty
• Best Service and Lifestyle Photograph (nominee), for a photograph by Joe Lingeman from “55 Truly Surprising, Strange and Immensely Pleasing Gifts Over $200”
• Best Service and Lifestyle Photograph (nominee), for a photograph by Rob Frogoso from “Best Bets: Sweat”
• Best Profile Photograph (nominee) for a photograph by Ashley Peña from “‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo’”
• Best Print Illustration (nominee) for an illustration by Pablo Rochat from “The Lunacy of Text-Based Therapy”
• Best Service and Lifestyle Story (nominee) for “Natural Hair, Now,” photographs by Delphine Diallo
• Best Digital Illustration (nominee) for an illustration by Pedro Nekoi from “‘I Got Ghosted. Big Time’”

The Verge:

• Best Digital Illustration (winner), for “Verge 10,” illustration by Micha Huigen
• Best Illustrated Story (nominee), for “What The Verge Covered in Our First 120,000 Stories,” illustrations by Kristen Radtke