Holt / Editors The Best American Magazine Writing 2016

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54364-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

This year’s Best American Magazine Writing features outstanding writing on contentious issues including incarceration, policing, sexual assault, labor, technology, and environmental catastrophe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holt, Sid

Editors, The American Society of Magazine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hodge, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Roger Hodge, national editor, The Intercept
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors
Fixing the System: An Interview with President Obama on Prison Reform, by Shane Smith, Vice, Finalist—Single-Topic Issue
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This, by Paul Ford, Bloomberg Businessweek, Winner—Single-Topic Issue
The New American Slavery and "All You Americans Are Fired", by Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, and Jeremy Singer-Vine, BuzzFeed News, Winner—Public Interest
"Pregnant? Scared? Need Options? Too Bad", by Meaghan Winter, Cosmopolitan, Finalist—Public Interest
"My Nurses Are Dead, and I Don't Know If I'm Already Infected", by Joshua Hammer, Matter, Winner—Reporting
Purgatory, by Luke Mogelson, New York Times Magazine, Finalist—Reporting
The Really Big One, by Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, Winner—Feature Writing
An Unbelievable Story of Rape, by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller, The Marshall Project and ProPublica, Finalist—Feature Writing
A Visit to the Sweat Lodge and Santa Muerte, Full of Grace and Stop Sending me Jonathan Franzen Novels, by Barrett Brown, The Intercept, Winner—Columns and Commentary
Down for the Count and The King Has Spoken and The Power of Sight, by Howard Bryant, ESPN the Magazine, Finalist—Columns and Commentary
The Friend, by Matthew Teague, Esquire, Winner—Essays and Criticism
How It Feels, by Jenny Zhang, Poetry, Finalist—Essays and Criticism
Permissions
List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Sid Holt is chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at Rolling Stone and Adweek magazines.

Roger Hodge is the national editor of The Intercept. He is the author of The Mendacity of Hope: Presidential Power, Corporate Money, and the Politics of Corrupt Influence (2010). Formerly he was editor of the Oxford American and Harper's Magazine. Hodge's writings have appeared in many publications, including Texas Monthly, the London Review of Books, Popular Science, Men's Journal, and Harper's. He is writing a book about life in the West Texas borderlands.