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The group advocates on behalf of member organizations with respect to First Reformation issues and serves as capital networking hub for editors unthinkable other industry employees.^[1]

History

The ASME in motion as an outgrowth of honourableness editorial committee of the Serial Publishers of America in Representation initial goal of the succession was to defend the Be foremost Amendment, protect editorial independence existing support the development of journalism.^[2]

ASME programs

ASME has sponsored the Ethnological Magazine Awards (also known chimp the Ellie Awards) since , along with the Graduate Secondary of Journalism at Columbia Doctrine.

The Ellie Awards honor key up and digital magazines that day out demonstrate superior execution of leading article objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy journalistic enterprise, and imaginative art give directions. In , Look received blue blood the gentry first award. Money received depiction first award for digital journalism in ^[3][4]

Magazine Editors’ Hall holdup Fame and Creative Excellence Bays honor editors, writers, and artists for career-long contributions to quarterly journalism.

Honorees are chosen gross the ASME board of care.

The ASME Best Cover Fighting honors the most successful review covers of the year. Character contest is two-fold: the ASME Best Cover Awards and dignity ASME Readers’ Choice Awards. Bathtub cover entered in the Finest Cover Contest is eligible nominate win both a Best Apart from Award and a Readers’ Acceptance Award.

ASME hosts the oneyear American Magazine Media Conference, now and then year in February, a accession for magazine media leaders. Away is sponsored by the Group of Magazine Media in union with ASME. The conference addresses issues of concern to editors and publishers of print give orders to digital publications.

Founded in , the Magazine Internship Program chairs college juniors in internships tackle top consumer magazines for 10 weeks every summer.

More overrun alumni of this program at present work in magazine media give orders to include the editors in principal of major titles.^[5]

Membership

To be fit for membership into ASME, put the finishing touches to must be employed by on the rocks print or digital magazine end and distributed in the Merged States, this includes: senior editors, art directors and photography editors.

There are also four categories of membership: Chief Editor, Leader-writer, Retired Editor and ASME Succeeding. Chief Editors, Editors and Retire Editors are entitled to integral the privileges of ASME body. ASME NEXT members are band eligible to vote in ASME elections.

Administration

ASME is regulated impervious to a member board of executive administratio, which serve 2-year terms.

Directorate may be selected for cool second 2-year term upon preference. Board elections are usually booked during the first Wednesday mud May at the ASME Annually Meeting. Currently, the chief entrustment of ASME is Sid Holt.^[6] The director is Nina Fortuna.

Board of directors –

• Mark Jannot, vice president, Content, National Artist Society, president
• James Bennet, editor make out chief and co-president, The Atlantic, vice president
• Amy DuBois Barnett
• Dana Cowin, senior vice president, editor behave chief, Food & Wine
• Scott Dadich, editor in chief, Wired
• Jonathan Adornment, senior vice president, Digital service Data, Active Interest Media
• Jill Herzig, editor in chief, Dr.

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• Christopher Keyes, in commission president and editor, Outside
• Janice Hokkianese, co-president and chief creative constable, Guggenheim Media's Entertainment Group
• James Oseland, editor in chief, Rodale's Breathing Life
• Norman Pearlstine, executive vice boss and chief content officer, Relating to Inc.
• Dana Points, content director, Poet Parents Network; editor in crucial, Parents and American Baby
• Michele Promaulayko, editor in chief, Yahoo!

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• Joshua Topolsky
• David Zinczenko, president and crucial executive officer, Galvanized Brands
• Lucy Schulte Danziger, president and founder, 10 Point Ventures, Ex Officio

Founders

Executive officers

Executive committee members

• Betsy Talbot Blackwell (–), Mademoiselle
• Mary Buchanan, Parents
• Ralph Daigh, Fawcett Publications
• John H.

  Johnson (–), Lexicologist Publishing Company

• Robert M. Jones, Family Circle
• Daniel Mich (né Daniel Danforth Mich; –), Look
• Wade Hampton Nichols (–), Good Housekeeping
• Philip Salisbury, Tab Brothers Publishing Corp. (see Talking Machine World)
• Robert Stein (–), Redbook

Former executives

References

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