NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time, a Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) brand, haswon the ASME Cover of the Year award for its “Total Meltdown” cover from the October 24, 2016 issue, featuring an illustration of Donald Trump by artist Edel Rodriguez.
"This iconic image is just one of several Time covers that drove national conversation during the presidential election, including the original "Meltdown" cover that ran in August,” said Time Inc. President & CEO Rich Battista. "Time's high-impact journalism during this demanding news cycle has been succeeding on all platforms and has helped to draw Time's largest audience in its history."
Time Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs accepted the award for ASME Cover of the Year at a ceremony during the American Magazine Media Conference (AMMC) at the Conrad New York on Wednesday. Read her remarks on Time.com.
The AMMC conference also featured a series of panels featuring industry leaders, in which Battista, Time Chief Content Officer Alan Murray, and People and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director Jess Cagle participated.
ABOUT TIME INC.
Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is a leading content company that engages over 150 million consumers every month through our portfolio of premium brands across platforms. By combining our distinctive content with our proprietary data and people-based targeting, we offer highly differentiated end-to-end solutions to marketers across the multimedia landscape. Our influential brands include People, Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Real Simple and Southern Living, as well as more than 50 diverse titles in the United Kingdom. Time Inc. has been extending the power of our brands through various acquisitions and investments, including Viant, an advertising technology firm with a specialized people-based marketing platform; The Foundry, Time Inc.’s creative lab and content studio; and the People Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN). The company is also home to celebrated events, such as the Time 100, Fortune Most Powerful Women, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year, the Essence Festival and the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.
