Tim Alberta, Sophie Gilbert, and Jennifer Senior win for reporting; Jenisha Watts and particular difficulty, “To Reconstruct the Nation,” have been finalists
For the third consecutive yr, The Atlantic was awarded the highest honor of Basic Excellence for a Information, Sports activities, and Leisure publication on the 2024 Nationwide Journal Awards, essentially the most prestigious class within the annual honors from the American Society of Journal Editors.
The Atlantic additionally received reporting awards for “Contained in the Meltdown at CNN,” by workers author Tim Alberta; “The Ones We Despatched Away,” the September cowl by workers author Jennifer Senior; and cultural evaluations and criticism by workers author Sophie Gilbert. It additionally was a finalist for “Jenisha From Kentucky,” the October cowl story by senior editor Jenisha Watts; and “To Reconstruct the Nation,” a particular difficulty in December that reexamined Reconstruction and the enduring penalties of its failure.
Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg stated: “As soon as once more, our workforce has proven themselves to be one of the best within the enterprise. It’s deeply gratifying to obtain this recognition once more.”
Extra on the winners and finalists follows:
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Workers author Tim Alberta received in Profile Writing for “Contained in the Meltdown at CNN,” an in-depth profile of CNN’s former CEO Chris Licht. Alberta had been assembly with Licht all through the course of his tenure, and for this story spoke with almost 100 CNN staffers. The report was explosive and dominated information cycles.
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In Evaluations and Criticism, workers author Sophie Gilbert received for 3 articles: “The Loss of life of the Intercourse Scene,” “Porn Set Girls Up From the Begin,” and “Madonna Perpetually.” Gilbert was additionally a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, and is the writer of the latest Atlantic Version title On Womanhood: Our bodies, Literature, Selection, which is a well timed, probing essay assortment of her writings exploring womanhood in popular culture.
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Workers author Jennifer Senior received within the Columns & Essays class for “The Ones We Despatched Away,” which was the quilt of the September 2023 difficulty. Senior unraveled the story of her aunt Adele, who was born in 1951 with numerous mental disabilities and was despatched away to an establishment when she was youthful than 2 years previous. Senior then explored the methods during which the improved care and amenities within the latter a part of Adele’s life helped restore her humanity and id––defying the expectations that have been positioned on her as a toddler.
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Workers author Jenisha Watts was a finalist for Function Writing. In “Jenisha From Kentucky,” which was the quilt of the October 2023 difficulty, Jenisha wrote with outstanding candor about rising up in a crack home, and the way she survived it. Watts writes that she was at all times a “collector of phrases,” and located solace and escape in her deep love of books; she ultimately discovered her strategy to the literary and journalistic world of New York, the place she tried to cover her previous. It’s, as Goldberg stated in an editor’s notice, “some of the heartbreaking, insightful, and emotionally resonant tales in latest reminiscence.”
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Nominated for Single-Matter Subject was “To Reconstruct the Nation,” from December 2023. The centerpiece of the difficulty, which was led by senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II, was a brand new feature-length play by the actor, playwright, and Atlantic contributing author Anna Deavere Smith, which seems together with essays by writers, historians, and students together with Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III, Jordan Advantage, Peniel E. Joseph, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Eric Foner.
For the second straight yr, The Atlantic earned the glory for Greatest Print Illustration, this yr for the October cowl portrait of Jenisha Watts by Didier Viodé.
Prior to now yr, The Atlantic’s journalistic excellence has pushed development throughout the corporate, together with the latest announcement that the corporate surpassed 1 million subscriptions and is worthwhile. Final month, it revealed “The Nice American Novels,” an formidable undertaking gathering essentially the most consequential novels of the previous 100 years. The April cowl story, “The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending,” by Franklin Foer, appears to be like at how the rise of anti-Semitism on each the correct and the left threatens to finish an period of unprecedented security and prosperity for Jewish People.
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