The Atlantic Wins High Honor at Nationwide Journal Awards

Workers author Tim Alberta received in Profile Writing for “Contained in the Meltdown at CNN,” an in-depth profile of CNN’s former CEO Chris Licht. Alberta had been assembly with Licht all through the course of his tenure, and for this story spoke with practically 100 CNN staffers. The report was explosive and dominated information cycles.

In Critiques and Criticism, workers author Sophie Gilbert received for 3 articles: “The Demise of the Intercourse Scene,” “Porn Set Ladies Up From the Begin,” and “Madonna Endlessly.” Gilbert was additionally a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, and is the writer of the current Atlantic Version title On Womanhood: Our bodies, Literature, Alternative, which is a well timed, probing essay assortment of her writings exploring womanhood in popular culture.

Workers author Jennifer Senior received within the Columns & Essays class for “The Ones We Despatched Away,” which was the quilt of the September 2023 challenge. Senior unraveled the story of her aunt Adele, who was born in 1951 with varied mental disabilities and was despatched away to an establishment when she was youthful than 2 years previous. Senior then explored the methods wherein the improved care and services within the latter a part of Adele’s life helped restore her humanity and identification––defying the expectations that have been positioned on her as a toddler.

Workers author Jenisha Watts was a finalist for Function Writing. In “Jenisha From Kentucky,” which was the quilt of the October 2023 challenge, Jenisha wrote with outstanding candor about rising up in a crack home, and the way she survived it. Watts writes that she was at all times a “collector of phrases,” and located solace and escape in her deep love of books; she finally discovered her technique to the literary and journalistic world of New York, the place she tried to cover her previous. It’s, as Goldberg mentioned in an editor’s observe, “one of the heartbreaking, insightful, and emotionally resonant tales in current reminiscence.”

Nominated for Single-Matter Subject was “To Reconstruct the Nation,” from December 2023. The centerpiece of the problem, which was led by senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II, was a brand new feature-length play by the actor, playwright, and Atlantic contributing author Anna Deavere Smith, which seems together with essays by writers, historians, and students together with Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III, Jordan Advantage, Peniel E. Joseph, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Eric Foner.