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. (You can see the complete 2026 list here .) Journalists and journalism educators select the nominees.…