Contents

Introduction

Alison Overholt, vice president and editor in chief, ESPN the Magazine, espnW, and the ESPYs

Acknowledgments

Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors

Abuses of Power and Weighing the Costs of Speaking Out About Harvey Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies

Ronan Farrow

The New Yorker

WINNER—Public Interest

Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual-Harassment Allegations Didn’t Come Out Until Now and Your Reckoning. And Mine. and This Moment Isn’t (Just) About Sex. It’s Really About Work

Rebecca Traister

New York

WINNER—Columns and Commentary

The Horizon of Desire and We’re All Mad Here: Weinstein, Women, and the Language of Lunacy and The Unforgiving Minute

Laurie Penny

Longreads

FINALIST—Columns and Commentary

The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth

Nina Martin and Renee Montagne

ProPublica with NPR

FINALIST—Public Interest

The Uncounted

Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal

New York Times Magazine

WINNER—Reporting

How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico

Ginger Thompson

National Geographic and ProPublica

FINALIST—Reporting

What Ever Happened to the Russian Revolution?

Ian Frazier

Smithsonian

FINALIST—Essays and Criticism

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells

New York

FINALIST—Essays and Criticism

My President Was Black

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Atlantic

FINALIST—Feature Writing

Standing Down and Roger Goodell Has a Jerry Jones Problem

Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr.

ESPN the Magazine

FINALIST—Reporting

How the Oscar Flub Demonstrates the Limits of Black Graciousness and How Oprah Got Her Acting Groove Back and Maria Sharapova’s Rivalry With Serena Williams Is in Her Head

Bim Adewunmi

BuzzFeed News

FINALIST—Columns and Commentary

The Williams Movement and Power Play and How Is This Still a Debate?

Howard Bryant

ESPN the Magazine

FINALIST—Columns and Commentary

Lola’s Story

Alex Tizon

The Atlantic

WINNER—Essays and Criticism

Love in the Time of Robots

Alex Mar

Wired with Epic Magazine

FINALIST—Feature Writing

Cat Person

Kristen Roupenian

The New Yorker

FINALIST—ASME Award for Fiction

Permissions

List of Contributors