The Hollywood Reporter Takes Home 2025 American Society of Magazine Editors Best Cover Award

2025’s Best Cover Contest awarded by the American Society of Magazine Editors went to The Hollywood Reporter, as they revealed on Thursday.

I’m thrilled to share that my favorite local magazine, THR, took home the top prize for best cover design at the 2024 awards, specifically for their “Work Issue” released on October 30, 2024. This issue stood tall against four other finalists, including heavyweights like New York and Texas Monthly.

I’m thrilled to share that my favorite, the ASME’s Best Cover Contest, recognized magazines across a variety of categories last year – from current events and politics to style and fashion. Among the distinguished winners were The Atlantic, The Economist, New York Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. All these exceptional issues graced newsstands in 2024.

The ASME Best Cover Prize comes after multiple art and photograph accolades from the Los Angeles Press Club’s SoCal Journalism Awards and National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. In 2024, THR was given the SoCal Journalism awards for best photo essay in entertainment and culture, outstanding entertainment portrait photo, and top entertainment photo, as well as an NAEJ award for the best photo essay.

In the year prior, Lovia Gyarkye from THR was bestowed with one of the 2024 ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30 at The National Magazine Awards. These accolades, often referred to as “Ellies,” are renowned as some of the most prestigious in journalism, both digital and print. The name “Ellies” originates from the Alexander Calder stabile elephant figurine presented to each recipient.

Gyarkye’s honor signifies that The Hollywood Reporter (THR) has been nominated for its ninth National Magazine Award. For the first time in 2014, THR received a nomination for General Excellence, Special Interest. In both 2015 and 2016, the magazine clinched victory in this category and also received nominations for Magazine of the Year. It was nominated again in 2017, 2019, 2020 (winning that year), and 2022. In 2023, a photograph of Lupita Nyong’o by Christian Cody for a THR cover story was nominated in the best news and entertainment photography category.

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2025-05-10 04:24