Outlets Praise Their 2025 ASJA Awards Article Winners

Before the 2025 ASJA Awards program season is over, we wanted to share all the shout outs and love that winning markets have shown to the freelance writers who’ve won awards. Here are three that we know of:

• The Economic Hardship Reporting Project featured the 2025 ASJA Awards on their homepage. Writers for the EHRP swept the Social Change category. The EHRP “supports independent journalists as they forward fresh narratives about inequality. EHRP’s high-quality journalism is then co-published with mainstream media outlets, to help readers understand and address systemic hardship.” If social change is your jam, you might want to check them out.

• Longreads mentioned us in their weekly e-newsletter. Longreads tallied three winners and one honorable mention–more awards than any other outlet. “Any recognition for our work is incredible, but I particularly love that ASJA exclusively awards pieces from freelance writers,” read part of the shout out. “Longreads is a tiny crew of editors who take great pride in how we work with writers, and how we champion that work after publication.” Champion writers they do indeed, as the entries were submitted by the editors on behalf of the freelance writers!

• Knowable Magazine created a lovely LinkedIn post congratulating one of its contributing writers for receiving an ASJA Awards honorable mention.

If you’ve seen kudos from other outlets that published 2025 award winners, please drop a note with the information to asjaoffice@asja.org to help us keep track.

Outlets That Published Awards Winners Could Provide Inspiration or Be New Markets

Chances are the markets that won awards are freelancer-friendly. Check out the outlets below, and consider adding them to your “who to pitch” list. Go to the 2025 ASJA Awards page to read the winning entries for intel on what types of stories these markets publish–and what wins. 

The markets are listed alphabetically along with the total number of 2025 ASJA Awards article and content writing prizes received by freelancers writing for that market. Prizes are indicated by “W” for winners and “HM” for honorable mentions:

• Arlington magazine: 1 HM
• BBC.com: 1 HM
• Bethesda Magazine: 1 W
• Civil Eats: 1 HM
• Curiosus, the Magazine of Barnes-Jewish Hospital: 1 HM
• Dwell: 1 W
• Esquire: 1 HM
• Fodors.com, 1 W
• Harper’s Magazine with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project: 1 W
• Holding Patterns (personal Substack): 1 W
• INFORM: 1 HM
• In These Times: 1 W
• Knowable magazine: 1 HM
• Longreads: 3 W, 1 HM
• Madison magazine: 1 HM
• NationalGeographic.com: 1 HM
• Nature: 1 HM
• Nature Research Custom Media: 1 W
• Next Avenue, 2 HM (future uncertain)
• Newsday: 1 W

• New Scientist: 1 W
• New York Magazine: 1 W
• Pennsylvania Gazette: 1 W
• Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: 1 W
• Slate: 1 W
• Science News: 1 W
• School Administrator: 1 W
• Steinway & Sons Owner’s Magazine: 1 HM
• The Believer: 1 W
• The Baffler with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project: 1 HM
• The Cut: 1 HM
• The Emancipator: 1 W
• The Equation: 1 HM
• The Guardian: 2 W
• The Hechinger Report: 1 HM
• The Huffington Post: 1 W
• The Imprint: 1 W
• The Washington Post: 1 W, 1 HM
• Undark: 1 W
• Utilization Review Accreditation Commission: 1 HM
• Women’s Health: 1 HM

Thanks to all ASJA members who’ve shared social media posts about the 2025 ASJA Awards and award winners. Thanks, too, to the ASJA social media team for putting together all of the eye-catching posts for the awards.

Stay tuned for the 2025 ASJA Awards book category winners, which will be announced in September. 

Rita Colorito is an award-winning health journalist and content marketing writer in Greater Chicago. She and Richard Eisenberg served as Co-Chairs of the 2025 ASJA Awards.