LeslyNewsMagazine‘s Lovia Gyarkye will probably be honored with a Nationwide Journal Award by the American Society of Journal Editors.
Gyarkye, who’s THR’s arts and tradition critic, will obtain considered one of this yr’s ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Beneath 30, which honor “excellent achievement by early-career print and digital journalists.” Along with Gyarkye, the recipients of the ninth annual awards are Vulture’s Rebecca Alter; Selection’s Haley Kluge; New York Journal’s Isabela Quintero; and MIT Expertise Evaluation’s Zeyi Yang.
The Nationwide Journal Awards — also referred to as the “Ellies,” a nickname derived from the Alexander Calder stabile elephant given to every winner — are thought of among the many most prestigious in digital and print journalism. The finalists have been introduced Thursday.
Gyarkye will probably be honored at an April 2 ceremony happening at Terminal 5 in Manhattan. The opposite winners of the 59th annual Nationwide Journal Awards will probably be honored then as properly.
ASME mentioned that greater than 250 magazines and web sites entered the Nationwide Journal Awards and ASME Awards competitions this yr, with greater than 300 editors, artwork administrators and photograph editors serving as judges.
This marks the ninth time that THR has been nominated for a Nationwide Journal Award. In 2014, THR scored its first-ever nod, for Normal Excellence, Particular Curiosity; in each 2015 and 2016, the journal received that class and in addition earned Journal of the Yr nominations. It additionally was nominated once more in 2017, in 2019, in 2020, when it additionally received the award, and in 2022. Final yr, Christian Cody’s photograph of Lupita Nyong’o for a THR cowl story was nominated for greatest information and leisure {photograph}.
The Ellie awards, established in 1966, are sponsored by ASME in affiliation with the Columbia College Graduate College of Journalism. Initially restricted to print magazines, the awards now acknowledge magazine-quality journalism revealed in any medium.