The following business publications have been named finalists in The American Society of Magazine Editors’ 60th annual National Magazine Awards:
The Verge in the general excellence, news, sports and entertainment category;
Rest of World in the design category for “The Changing Face of Protest,” “2024 AI Elections Tracker” and “Digital Divinity”;
Business Insider in the video category for “4 Gazans Show How War Has Torn Their Coastline Apart,” produced by Reem Makhoul;
The Verge in the single-topic category for “2004 Was the First Year of the Future”;
Bloomberg Businessweek in the reporting category for “Sextortion,” by Olivia Carville, “Roblox’s Predator Problem,” by Olivia Carville and Cecilia D’Anastasio, and “Fentanyl Almost Killed Michael Brewer. Now He Wants Snap to Pay,” by Olivia Carville;
Wired in the profile writing category for “Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia,” by Lauren Smiley.
In the public interest category:
- Bloomberg Businessweek for “The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners,” by Caleb Melby, Polly Mosendz and Noah Buhayar; and
- Business Insider for three articles by Cecilia Reyes: “Locked Out,” “When Renters Get Locked Out, They May Never Get Back In” and “Unprotected at the Margins of the Rental Market”;
- STAT for three articles from the series “Health Care’s Colossus,” by Tara Bannow, Bob Herman, Lizzy Lawrence and Casey Ross: “How UnitedHealth Harnesses Its Physician Empire to Squeeze Profits Out of Patients,” “UnitedHealth Pledged a Hands-Off Approach After Buying a Connecticut Medical Group. Then It Upended How Doctors Practice” and “Inside UnitedHealth’s Strategy to Pressure Physicians: $10,000 Bonuses and a Doctor Leaderboard”.
ASME will name the winners of the 2025 awards, including the recipients of the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30, on Thursday, April 10. The winners will receive their awards at a reception hosted by ASME at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in June.
See all of the finalists here.
