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

Adam Moss was the editor in chief of New York magazine from 2004 to 2019. He was elected by ASME to the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2019.

Introduction, by Adam Moss
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors
A Betrayal, by Hannah Dreier, ProPublica, copublished with New York, Finalist-Public Interest
American Hustler, by Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, Finalist-Reporting
A Kingdom from Dust, by Mark Arax, The California Sunday Magazine, Finalist- Feature Writing
Shallow Graves and An Interview with Ben Taub by Eric Sullivan, by Ben Taub, The New Yorker, Winner-Reporting
The Genocide the U.S. Didn't See Coming, by Nahal Toosi, Politico, Finalist-Reporting
We Made It. We Depend on It. We're Drowning in It. Plastic, by Laura Parker, National Geographic, Finalist- Public Interest
The First Porn President and I Believe Her and The Abandoned World of 1982, by Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Finalist-Columns and Commentary
Misjudged, by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, Finalist-Essays and Criticism
The National Geographic Twins and the Falsehood of Our Post-Racial Future and The Profound Presence of Doria Ragland and The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment, by Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, Winner-Columns and Comentary
This Place Is Crazy, by John J. Lennon, Esquire, Finalist-Feature Writing
Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind, by Robert Wright, The Marshall Project with Vice, Finalist-Columns and Commentary
Getting Out, by Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times Magazine, Winner-Essays and Criticism
How to Be an Artist, by Jerry Saltz, New York, Winner-Leisure Interests
The Art of Dying Well, by Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B.Koehler, 5280, Winner-Personal Service
Taming the Lionfish, by Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, Finalist-Feature Writing
The Breakup Museum, by Leslie Jamison, Virginia Quarterly Review, Finalist-Essays and Criticism
Skinned, by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and A Conversation with McSweeney's Claire Boyle and Karolina Waclawiak, by The ASME Award for Fiction, McSweeney's, Winner-ASME Award for Fiction
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