NEW YORK, March 27, 2015 – Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer Norman Pearlstine announced today the winners of the 17th annual Henry R. Luce Awards, honoring editorial excellence in print, digital and multimedia categories across all of Time Inc.’s US brands.

 

Time Inc.’s Southern Living (Southern Living.com) is being recognized as “Magazine of the Year” and Landon Jones, former editor of People and Money, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award when the Luce Award winners will be celebrated with a dinner at Oceana in New York on April 15.

 

Awards were given out in 19 categories, including Magazine of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, Most Valuable Player, News Photography, Best Cover and Best Multimedia Story. Former Time Inc. editorial directors Jim Kelly and Isolde Motley joined Pearlstine in judging the entries.

 

“The Henry R. Luce Awards are Time Inc.’s own prestigious awards that honor the important legacy of our founding father by celebrating the highest journalistic standards, innovation and design within our portfolio of brands. We are very proud of the exceptional work being done across the company,” said Pearlstine.

 

The Time Inc. 2015 Henry R. Luce Awards Winners, are as follows:

 

NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

 

Time, “Into Kurdistan” by Moises Saman, Photographer

Time, “Crime without Punishment” by Jerome Sessini, Photographer

Time, “No Home in Sight” by James Nachtwey, Photographer

 

 

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

 

People en Español, for “Myrka Dellanos and Maria Celeste”

People en Español, for “Los 50 Más Bellos”

People en Español, for “Adamari López”

 

 

DESIGN

 

RealSimple.com

 

 

REPORTING

 

Fortune for “Citizenship for Sale” by journalists Peter Elkind and Marty Jones

 

 

COVER OF THE YEAR

 

Sports Illustrated, for Boston Strong

 

 

BOOK OF THE YEAR

 

Cooking Light and Time Home Entertainment Inc. for Mad Delicious

 

 

BEST MULTIMEDIA STORY

 

Time, for “Top of America”, in partnership with Gigapan

 

 

PUBLIC SERVICE

 

People, for “Brittany Maynard” / “Brittany Maynard, #2” by journalist Nicole Weisensee Egan

 

 

BEST CONFERENCE/EVENT

 

Fortune, Most Powerful Women Summit

 

 

PERSONAL SERVICE

 

Health, for “Fear No Carbs”

 

 

SPECIAL INTERESTS

 

Essence.com, for the relaunched “Hair Channel”

 

 

BEST INNOVATION

 

Food & Wine, for its sub-brand FWx

 

 

NEWSBREAKER OF THE YEAR

 

Sports Illustrated, for “LeBron James” story

 

 

BEST VIDEO

 

Sunset, for How-To Videos: Pie Crusts, Love Story, Omelet

Special Mention: Sunset, for “Ultimate Guide to the Southwest”

 

 

BEST BLOG

 

Southern Living, for “Grumpy Gardener” by editor Steve Bender

 

 

BEST MOBILE INITIATIVE

 

Real Simple, for “Ultimate Wedding Planning Checklist”

 

 

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER (MVP)

 

Allison Lowery, executive editor, Cooking Light Digital

 

 

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

 

Landon Jones, former editor of People and Money

 

 

MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR

 

Southern Living, editors Sid Evans and Lindsay Bierman, Southern Living.com

 

 

 

About Time Inc.

 

Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is one of the world’s leading media companies, with a monthly global print audience of over 120 million and worldwide digital properties that attract more than 120 million visitors each month, including over 50 websites. Our influential brands include People, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Time, Real Simple, Southern Living, Entertainment Weekly, Travel + Leisure, Cooking Light, Fortune and Food & Wine, as well as more than 50 diverse titles in the United Kingdom such as Decanter and Horse & Hound. Time Inc. is home to celebrated events and franchises including the Fortune 500, Time 100, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, the Essence Festival and the biennial Fortune Global Forum. Hundreds of thousands of people attended our live media events in 2014. We also provide content marketing, targeted local print and digital advertising programs, branded book publishing and marketing and support services, including subscription sales services for magazines and other products, retail distribution and marketing services and customer service and fulfillment services, for ourselves and third-party clients, including other magazine publishers.

 

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CONTACT:

 

Jaison Blair

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