The Hollywood Reporter’s Lovia Gyarkye Wins National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30

The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lovia Gyarkye will be honored with a National Magazine Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

Gyarkye, who is THR’s arts and culture critic, will receive one of this year’s ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30, which honor “outstanding achievement by early-career print and digital journalists.” In addition to Gyarkye, the recipients of the ninth annual awards are Vulture’s Rebecca Alter; Variety’s Haley Kluge; New York Magazine’s Isabela Quintero; and MIT Technology Review’s Zeyi Yang.

The National Magazine Awards — also known as the “Ellies,” a nickname derived from the Alexander Calder stabile elephant given to each winner — are considered among the most prestigious in digital and print journalism. The finalists were announced Thursday.

Gyarkye will be honored at an April 2 ceremony taking place at Terminal 5 in Manhattan. The other winners of the 59th annual National Magazine Awards will be honored then as well.

ASME said that more than 250 magazines and websites entered the National Magazine Awards and ASME Awards competitions this year, with more than 300 editors, art directors and photo editors serving as judges.

This marks the ninth time that THR has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. In 2014, THR scored its first-ever nod, for General Excellence, Special Interest; in both 2015 and 2016, the magazine won that category and also earned Magazine of the Year nominations. It also was nominated again in 2017, in 2019, in 2020, when it also won the award, and in 2022. Last year, Christian Cody’s photo of Lupita Nyong’o for a THR cover story was nominated for best news and entertainment photograph.

The Ellie awards, established in 1966, are sponsored by ASME in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine-quality journalism published in any medium.