This previous week, the American Society of Magazine Editors announced that The New Yorker had been nominated for a record-breaking fourteen National Magazine Awards, together with within the class of General Excellence. The nominations acknowledge the various ways in which the journal and its Web web site have instructed the story of pandemic and political upheaval previously yr, from reporting, characteristic writing, and criticism to pictures, video, and social media. Here are the nominees:
Feature Photography
Isaac Scott
Karen Cunningham
A City Nurse
At the height of New York’s disaster, a health-care employee introduced her digital camera to the I.C.U.
Social Media
Video
Eléonore Hamelin
“Quiet No More” Shows How Grief Can Become Activism
A brand new documentary follows the Reverend Sharon Risher, who misplaced three kinfolk within the capturing at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, in Charleston, as she mourns, seeks justice, and begins working for gun security.
Reporting
Lawrence Wright
Three options by Peter Hessler
How China Controlled the Coronavirus
Teaching and studying in Sichuan in the course of the pandemic.
Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic
There’s no different nation the place the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single metropolis.
Feature Writing
Ben Taub
Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea
The explorers who set one of many final significant information on earth.
Profile Writing
Emily Nussbaum
Fiona Apple’s Art of Radical Sensitivity
For years, the elusive singer-songwriter has been working, at house, on an album with a strikingly uncooked and percussive sound. But is she ready to launch it into the world?
Jennifer Gonnerman
A Transit Worker’s Survival Story
Driving a New York City bus throughout a pandemic and an rebellion.
Essays and Criticism
Hilton Als
My Mother’s Dreams for Her Son, and All Black Children
She longed for black folks in America to not be endlessly refugees—confined by borders that they didn’t create and by a penal system that killed them earlier than they died.
Elizabeth Alexander
Columns and Commentary
Three columns by Jelani Cobb
Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence
President Trump has sparked harmful lawlessness, however killing and destruction linked to political antagonisms are nothing new for this nation.
Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom
Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.
The Death of George Floyd, in Context
It’s each obligatory and, at this level, pedestrian to watch that policing on this nation is mediated by race.
Public Interest
Rachel Aviv
Punishment by Pandemic
In a penitentiary with one of many U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, jail phrases grow to be dying sentences.
