This past week, the American Society of Magazine Editors announced that The New Yorker had been nominated for a record-breaking fourteen National Magazine Awards, including in the category of General Excellence. The nominations recognize the many ways that the magazine and its Web site have told the story of pandemic and political upheaval in the past year, from reporting, feature writing, and criticism to photography, video, and social media. Here are the nominees:
Feature Photography
Isaac Scott
Twenty-nine-year-old Isaac Scott captured the early days of intense confrontation—including clashes with the police—and stayed for the more peaceful days that followed.
Karen Cunningham
At the peak of New York’s crisis, a health-care worker brought her camera to the I.C.U.
Social Media
Twenty-four hours at the epicenter of the pandemic.
Video
Eléonore Hamelin
A new documentary follows the Reverend Sharon Risher, who lost three relatives in the shooting at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, in Charleston, as she mourns, seeks justice, and begins working for gun safety.
Reporting
Lawrence Wright
The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.
Three features by Peter Hessler
Forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.
Teaching and learning in Sichuan during the pandemic.
There’s no other country where the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single city.
Feature Writing
Ben Taub
The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.
Profile Writing
Emily Nussbaum
For years, the elusive singer-songwriter has been working, at home, on an album with a strikingly raw and percussive sound. But is she prepared to release it into the world?
Jennifer Gonnerman
Driving a New York City bus during a pandemic and an uprising.
Essays and Criticism
Hilton Als
She longed for black people in America not to be forever refugees—confined by borders that they did not create and by a penal system that killed them before they died.
Elizabeth Alexander
For Solo, Simon, Robel, Maurice, Cameron, and Sekou.
Columns and Commentary
Three columns by Jelani Cobb
President Trump has sparked dangerous lawlessness, but killing and destruction linked to political antagonisms are nothing new for this country.
Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.
It’s both necessary and, at this point, pedestrian to observe that policing in this country is mediated by race.
Public Interest
Rachel Aviv
In a penitentiary with one of the U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.
