Discover the 2025 James Beard Foundation Media Award Winners!

Discover the 2025 James Beard Foundation Media Award Winners!
Congratulations are in order for many members of food media: Tonight during a ceremony in Chicago, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2025 Media Award winners , bestowing medals to food professionals working in cookbooks, journalism, and television and audio programming. The awards whittled down winners from a long list of finalists that was announced in early May. Among the winners: Chicago editor Ashok Selvam won the Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award, while Ashleigh Shanti won a cookbook award for Our South: Black Food Through My Lens . In the Emerging Voice categories, Broadcast went to Mohammed Shaqura and Hamada Sho , a content creator based in Gaza; Journalism to MacKenzie Chung Fegan of the San Francisco Chronicle , whose recent story about her experience at the French Laundry was the talk of the town ; and Cookbooks to Paola Velez , author of Bodega Bakes . At the ceremony, host Padma Lakshmi noted the importance of the current politi…