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]
Year | Category | Winner | Work | Organization |
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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 issues | The New York Times | |
2009 | Cartooning | Jen Sorensen | "Slowpoke Comics" | [5] [6] [7] |
2008 | Lifetime 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] | |
2008 | Blog Award | Danny Schechter | NewsDissector.org. | |
2008 | Cartooning | 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 reporting | DahrJamailIraq.com | |
2007 | Jeremy Scahill | "Blackwater Worldwide" | The Nation | |
2007 | Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez | "The Mayan Way" | Daily Review of Hayward, California | |
2007 | Cartooning | Marc Simont | Lakeville [CT] Journal | |
2006 | Lifetime 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 | |
2006 | Cartooning | John Sherffius | Boulder Daily Camera | |
2005 | Lifetime Achievement | Molly Ivins | ||
2005 | Lifetime Achievement | Anthony Lewis | ||
2005 | Gary Fields | Wall Street Journal | ||
2005 | Kevin Fagan, Brant Ward | San Francisco Chronicle [12] | ||
2005 | Tracie McMillan | City Limits magazine | ||
2005 | Blogs | Juan Cole | "Informed Comment" | |
2005 | Cartooning | 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 | |
2004 | Cartooning | Bill Day | Memphis Commercial-Appeal | |
2003 | Paul Krugman | political commentary | The 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 War | Newsday | |
2003 | Cartooning | Mark Fiore | Animated Political Cartooning | |
2002 | William Finnegan | "Leasing the Rain" | The New Yorker [13] | |
2002 | Seth Rosenfeld | FBI & Clark Kerr | San Francisco Chronicle | |
2002 | Rebekah Denn | African-American and white students | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | |
2002 | Katy Reckdahl | mistreatment of the homeless | Gambit Weekly | |
2002 | Cartooning | Ted Rall | "Generalissimo El Busho" | |
2001 | William Greider | "regulatory takings" movement | The Nation [14] | |
2001 | Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed | "Torn From the Land" | Associated Press | |
2001 | Lifetime Achievement | Robert Sherrill | ||
2001 | Cartooning | Dan Perkins | "Tom Tomorrow" | |
2001 | Lifetime 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 | ||
2000 | Cartooning | 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 | |
1999 | Lifetime Achievement | Jules Feiffer | ||
1999 | Cartooning | 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 | |
1997 | Commentary | Bob Herbert | police brutality | The New York Times |
1997 | Environmental Reporting | Karl Grossman | ||
1997 | Socioeconomic Reporting | Marc Kaufman & Dan Stets | Philadelphia Board of City Trusts | Philadelphia Inquirer |
1997 | International Reporting | Eyal Press, Jennifer Washburn, Benn Terrall & Amy Goodman | U.S.-Indonesia Society & Suharto | The 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 | |
1996 | Honorable Mention | Greg Davis | Maine's DeCoster Egg Farms. | |
1995 | Barry Bearak | "The Waning Power of Workers" | Los Angeles Times | |
1995 | Honorable mention | Nancy Stancill | "Paid in Pain" | Charlotte Observer |
1995 | Lifetime Achievement | John Oakes | The New York Times | |
1994 | Allen Nairn | Haiti | The Nation | |
1994 | Honorable mention | Tony Horwitz | "9 to Nowhere: The Grim Side of '90s Growth Jobs" | Wall Street Journal |
1994 | Honorable 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 | |
1993 | Honorable mention | Paul Salopek | "“La Migra: The Border Patrol's Wall of Silence" | Texas Observer |
1993 | Honorable mention | New Orleans Times-Picayune | "The Myth of Race" | |
1992 | Mike Davis | "L.A.: Burning All Illusions" | The Nation | |
1992 | Honorable mention | Celia Dugger | foster care, welfare and people in poverty | The New York Times |
1992 | Honorable 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." | ||
1991 | Honorable mention | Ellen Ray, William Schaap | press assumptions and practices | Lies of Our Times |
1991 | Honorable mention | Peter Sussman | Lompoc Federal Penitentiary | The San Francisco Chronicle |
1990 | Kathy Kadane | CIA's role in Indonesia | State News Service, The Washington Post | |
1990 | Honorable Mention | Lawrence Wechsler, Alan Nairn, Peter Kornbluh, William Finnegan | "Talk of the Town" pieces on Central America | New Yorker |
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