ASME has announced the finalists for this year’s Ellies, and Conde Nast is firmly at the top, with 25 nominations across eight titles—with The New Yorker leading the pack with nine.
Among the other publications garnering more than one nom were New York, The New York Times, and the Virginia Quarterly, reports Folio magazine. Six titles also racked up their first-ever nominations: Cooking Light, House Beautiful, Lapham’s Quarterly, OnEarth, The Sun, and Women’s Health. (Nominations for Magazine of the Year, the Ellies’ top prize, will be revealed on April 12.)
Notably, ASME has changed the way it assesses the candidates for the Ellies, also known as the National Magazine Awards. “In the past, General Excellence was presented in six categories based on circulation size. This year there will still be six categories, but they will be based on content, audience, frequency and circulation,” explain ASME president Larry Hackett and ASME chief exec Sid Holt in a letter to members.
“This does two things. First, the awards will now look at magazines the way readers do (nobody goes to a newsstand to buy a magazine based on circulation size). Second, magazines will be judged against their peers—apples versus apples, not apples versus oranges.”
The winners of the Ellies will be named at a gala in NYC on May 9. More details here.
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Conde Nast tops the list of Ellies finalists
ASME has announced the finalists for this year’s Ellies, and Conde Nast is firmly at the top, with 25 nominations across eight titles—with The New Yorker leading the pack with nine.
Among the other publications garnering more than one nom were New York, The New York Times, and the Virginia Quarterly, reports Folio magazine. Six titles also racked up their first-ever nominations: Cooking Light, House Beautiful, Lapham’s Quarterly, OnEarth, The Sun, and Women’s Health. (Nominations for Magazine of the Year, the Ellies’ top prize, will be revealed on April 12.)
Notably, ASME has changed the way it assesses the candidates for the Ellies, also known as the National Magazine Awards. “In the past, General Excellence was presented in six categories based on circulation size. This year there will still be six categories, but they will be based on content, audience, frequency and circulation,” explain ASME president Larry Hackett and ASME chief exec Sid Holt in a letter to members.
“This does two things. First, the awards will now look at magazines the way readers do (nobody goes to a newsstand to buy a magazine based on circulation size). Second, magazines will be judged against their peers—apples versus apples, not apples versus oranges.”
The winners of the Ellies will be named at a gala in NYC on May 9. More details here.
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