The Hollywood Reporter has been nominated for a Mirror Award for the first time.

Steven Zeitchik’s summer 2025 piece “

Last Call for Late Night,” about the decline of an American institution under unprecedented political and economic pressure, was shortlisted at this year’s prizes .

Founded 20 years ago by Syracuse University’s

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications , the Mirrors pay tribute to excellence in media -industry reporting. Over the years, the awards have at once become a snapshot of the most important reporting on the free press while also demonstrating that press’ power; the country’s top journalism institutions are among those typically feted.

THR was nominated this year alongside The New Yorker , New York Magazine and The New York Times, all of which are multiple winners of past Mirrors.…