About

The Ellie Awards honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy journalistic enterprise and imaginative art direction. The National Magazine Awards were established in 1966, when one award was presented to Look; the first award for digital journalism was presented to Money in 1997. The awards are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia Journalism School and are administered by ASME. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine-quality journalism published in any medium. Each winner receives an “Ellie,” modeled on the symbol of the awards, Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant.”

THE OSBORN ELLIOTT-NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS SCHOLARSHIP

Ellie Awards ticket sales provide support for the Osborn Elliott Scholarship at the Columbia Journalism School. Named for the former Newsweek editor, ASME president and Columbia dean, the scholarship is awarded to students who intend to pursue careers in magazine journalism.

Sid Holt, Chief Executive
Nina Fortuna, Director

Steve Coll, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism
Abi Wright, Executive Director, Prizes

ELLIE AWARDS 2019 PRESENTATION

Produced by the Overland Entertainment Company

Design by John DeFrancesco

“Elephant” photographed by Bobby Doherty

“ASME Typewriter” and “A Brief History of Ellie”: Directed by Fred Woodward

“ASME Typewriter”: Videography by Gordon von Steiner

“A Brief History of Ellie”: Photo research by Jolanta Alberty and Daniel Boone; photo composition by Jennifer Gonzalez, Benjamin Bours and Martin Salazar; animation and editing by Linsey Fields and Casey Jabbour; title card by Chelsea Cardinal

Website designed by Kellyco Marketing

INFORMATION ABOUT FINALISTS AND WINNERS

All publication dates are 2018 and refer to print media unless otherwise indicated. Digital content was chiefly created in 2018 but may have been updated since submission. Editors whose names appear in finalist citations held those positions or were listed on the masthead when the content was published. Other editors may now be in those positions.