Congrats to the 2015 Ellies finalists! ASME has provided a list of nominees with links to stories.
2015
Posted inEditor's Pick
This Is What Happens When We Lock Children in Solitary Confinement
An investigation into the effects of solitary confinement on juveniles.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Budd & Leni
The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction
Budd & Leni
The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction, Story
Budd & Leni
The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
Posted inEditor's Pick
I Was an Amazon Chew Toy
An account of what it’s like to work at Amazon’s dog-friendly offices in Seattle.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Doris and Me
Writer Jenny Diski on coming to live with Doris Lessing during her teen years in London.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Life as a Teenage Girl, Living with Doris Lessing
It was a famously cold winter. I’d come from a snowbound Hove, where I’d spent hours sitting and brooding, wrapped up but shivering on the frozen pebbled beach staring out at an icy sea, writing poetry about seagulls and loneliness (no longer extant, thank heavens, though that’s not to say that I wouldn’t write about […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Life Under Armed Guard
An essay by Italian journalist Roberto Saviano about his life for the last eight years under armed guard. Saviano is famous for taking on the Neapolitan mafia in his book, Gomorrah and has faced death threats since the book’s publication.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Did Sierra Leone’s Hero Doctor Have to Die?
A chilling account of the life’s work and death of Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, a globally renowned expert in tropical diseases who ran Sierra Leone’s worst Ebola ward.