Variety gained high honors Sunday on the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, taking the trophy for finest leisure publication together with 11 different first-place wins.

The May 3 cowl bundle “No Words: What the Writers Strike Means for Hollywood” was acknowledged within the class of finest leisure publication in the course of the ceremony held on the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The kudo acknowledges Variety’s complete editorial employees for creating the problem on deadline, publishing barely 48 hours after the Writers Guild of America known as its first strike in 15 years.

“Receiving the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award that recognizes the entirety of our staff is particularly meaningful to us after such a challenging year for the industry we cover,” mentioned Cynthia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh, Variety‘s co-editors in chief. “Hollywood’s season of strikes was an all-encompassing, labor-intensive story to capture. It’s gratifying to receive this recognition as well many other first, second and third-place nods. It’s a tribute to the wide range of news, analysis, features, design, photography and illustrations that our team works so hard to deliver day in and day out.”

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