James Aronson Award

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The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism has been awarded since 1990 to honor Hunter College Professor, James Aronson. [1] This award honors original, written English-language reporting from the U.S. media that brings to light widespread injustices, their human consequences, underlying causes, and possible reforms. This includes but is not limited to: discrimination, exploitation, violations of human rights or civil liberties, and environmental degradation. [2] The Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience Award is named for his wife, (Blanche Mary) Grambs Aronson. [3] The award, which was established in 1998, seeks to honor Hunter College students who demonstrate prowess in editorial cartooning in either print or digital media. [4]

List of winners

YearCategoryWinnerWorkOrganization
2009 A.C. Thompson "Katrina's Hidden Race War"The Nation
2009 JoAnn Wypijewski "Carnal Knowledge"The Nation
2009 Mother Jones "Climate Countdown,"Mother Jones
2009 Nina Bernstein coverage of immigration issuesThe New York Times
2009Cartooning Jen Sorensen "Slowpoke Comics" [5] [6] [7]
2008Lifetime Achievement Les Payne Newsday [8]
2008 E.J. Graff "The Lie We Love"Foreign Policy
2008 Joseph Huff-Hannon "Facing Foreclosure"The Indypendent
2008 Nick Turse "A My Lai a Month"The Nation [9]
2008Blog Award Danny Schechter NewsDissector.org.
2008Cartooning Ed Stein
2007 Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein "The Poverty Business"BusinessWeek
2007 Helen Benedict "The Private War of Women Soldiers"Salon.com [10]
2007 Dahr Jamail Iraq reportingDahrJamailIraq.com
2007 Jeremy Scahill "Blackwater Worldwide"The Nation
2007Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez "The Mayan Way"Daily Review of Hayward, California
2007Cartooning Marc Simont Lakeville [CT] Journal
2006Lifetime Achievement Amy Goodman [11]
2006 Julia Whitty "The Fate of the Ocean"Mother Jones
2006 Corine Hegland "Guantanamo's Grip"National Journal
2006 Judy Pasternak "Blighted Homeland"Los Angeles Times
2006 Tim Collie, Mike Stocker, Jim Amon "Orphans of AIDS"South Florida-Sentinel
2006Cartooning John Sherffius Boulder Daily Camera
2005Lifetime Achievement Molly Ivins
2005Lifetime Achievement Anthony Lewis
2005 Gary Fields Wall Street Journal
2005 Kevin Fagan, Brant Ward San Francisco Chronicle [12]
2005 Tracie McMillan City Limits magazine
2005Blogs Juan Cole "Informed Comment"
2005Cartooning Kirk Anderson
2004 Seymour M. Hersh "Abu Graib"The New Yorker
2004 Naomi Klein Harper's
2004 Frank Rich The New York Times
2004 Peter G. Gosselin "New Deal"Los Angeles Times
2004Cartooning Bill Day Memphis Commercial-Appeal
2003 Paul Krugman political commentaryThe New York Times & The Nation
2003 Jake Bernstein & Dave Mann "The Rise of the Machine"The Texas Observer
2003 John Donnelly, Colin Nickerson, David Filipov, Raja Mishra "Lives Lost"The Boston Globe
2003 David Barstow & Lowell Bergman "Dangerous Business" & "When Workers Die"The New York Times
2003 Mohamad Bazzi Iraq WarNewsday
2003Cartooning Mark Fiore Animated Political Cartooning
2002 William Finnegan "Leasing the Rain"The New Yorker [13]
2002 Seth Rosenfeld FBI & Clark KerrSan Francisco Chronicle
2002 Rebekah Denn African-American and white studentsSeattle Post-Intelligencer
2002 Katy Reckdahl mistreatment of the homelessGambit Weekly
2002Cartooning Ted Rall "Generalissimo El Busho"
2001 William Greider "regulatory takings" movementThe Nation [14]
2001 Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed "Torn From the Land"Associated Press
2001Lifetime Achievement Robert Sherrill
2001Cartooning Dan Perkins "Tom Tomorrow"
2001Lifetime Achievement Edward Sorel
2000 Ellen E. Schultz "pension-paring spree"Wall Street Journal [15]
2000 Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson "This American Is Hungry"George magazine
2000 Robert Scheer Los Angeles Times & The Nation
2000 Juan Gonzalez New York Daily News
2000Cartooning Steve Brodner "art journalism"
1999 Sasha Abramsky "When They Get Out"Atlantic Monthly
1999 Larry Johnson, Dan DeLong "Life and Death in Iraq"Seattle Post-Intelligencer
1999 Marcus Stern, Dana Wilkie, Dori Meinert, Toby Eckert "America's Immigration Dilemma"Copley News Service
1999Lifetime Achievement Jules Feiffer
1999Cartooning Art Spiegelman New Yorker magazine
1998 Newsday "The Health Divide"Newsday
1998 Christopher Cook "Plucking Workers"The Progressive
1998 Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele corporate welfare Time
1997Commentary Bob Herbert police brutalityThe New York Times
1997Environmental Reporting Karl Grossman
1997Socioeconomic Reporting Marc Kaufman & Dan Stets Philadelphia Board of City Trusts Philadelphia Inquirer
1997International Reporting Eyal Press, Jennifer Washburn, Benn Terrall & Amy Goodman U.S.-Indonesia Society & SuhartoThe Progressive
1996 Charles M. Sennott "Armed for Profit: The Selling of U.S. Weapons"Boston Globe [16]
1996 Gary Webb "Dark Alliance"San Jose Mercury News
1996Honorable Mention Greg Davis Maine's DeCoster Egg Farms.
1995 Barry Bearak "The Waning Power of Workers"Los Angeles Times
1995Honorable mention Nancy Stancill "Paid in Pain"Charlotte Observer
1995Lifetime Achievement John Oakes The New York Times
1994 Allen Nairn HaitiThe Nation
1994Honorable mention Tony Horwitz "9 to Nowhere: The Grim Side of '90s Growth Jobs"Wall Street Journal
1994Honorable mention Mike Hudson "Robbin' the Hood: How Wall Street Takes from the Poor and Gives to the Rich"Mother Jones
1993 Eileen Welsome "The Plutonium Experiment"Albuquerque Tribune
1993Honorable mention Paul Salopek "“La Migra: The Border Patrol's Wall of Silence"Texas Observer
1993Honorable mention New Orleans Times-Picayune "The Myth of Race"
1992 Mike Davis "L.A.: Burning All Illusions"The Nation
1992Honorable mention Celia Dugger foster care, welfare and people in povertyThe New York Times
1992Honorable mention Robert Weissman "The Corporate Rap Sheet"Multinational Monitor
1991 Gloria Emerson "Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land."
1991Honorable mention Ellen Ray, William Schaap press assumptions and practicesLies of Our Times
1991Honorable mention Peter Sussman Lompoc Federal Penitentiary The San Francisco Chronicle
1990 Kathy Kadane CIA's role in IndonesiaState News Service, The Washington Post
1990Honorable Mention Lawrence Wechsler, Alan Nairn, Peter Kornbluh, William Finnegan "Talk of the Town" pieces on Central AmericaNew Yorker

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