Contents

Introduction

Roger Hodge, national editor, The Intercept

Acknowledgments

Sid Holt, chief executive,
American Society of Magazine Editors

Fixing the System: An Interview with President Obama on Prison Reform

Shane Smith

Vice

FINALIST—Single-Topic Issue

What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This

Paul Ford

Bloomberg Businessweek

WINNER—Single-Topic Issue

The New American Slavery and “All You Americans Are Fired”

Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, and Jeremy Singer-Vine

BuzzFeed News

WINNER—Public Interest

“Pregnant? Scared? Need Options? Too Bad”

Meaghan Winter

Cosmopolitan

FINALIST—Public Interest

“My Nurses Are Dead, and I Don’t Know If I’m Already Infected”

Joshua Hammer

Matter

WINNER—Reporting

Purgatory

Luke Mogelson

New York Times Magazine

FINALIST—Reporting

The Really Big One

Kathryn Schulz

The New Yorker

WINNER—Feature Writing

An Unbelievable Story of Rape

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

Barrett Brown

The Intercept

WINNER—Columns and Commentary

Down for the Count and The King Has Spoken and The Power of Sight

Howard Bryant

ESPN the Magazine

FINALIST—Columns and Commentary

The Friend

Matthew Teague

Esquire

WINNER—Essays and Criticism

How It Feels

Jenny Zhang

Poetry

FINALIST—Essays and Criticism

Permissions

List of Contributors