The Hillman Prize

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The Hillman Prize
Awarded for Journalism, social justice
Country United States
Presented by The Sidney Hillman Foundation
First awarded1950
Website hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prize

The Hillman Prize is a journalism award given out annually by The Sidney Hillman Foundation, named for noted American labor leader Sidney Hillman. It is given to "journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good." [1]

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Murray Kempton was the first recipient, in 1950. Organizations have also received the award. Each winner receives $5,000. [2]

Recipients

YearAwardWinnerTitleOrganization
2021NewspaperMargie Mason and Robin McDowell Fruits of Labor Associated Press
2021MagazineDavid Dayen Unsanitized The American Prospect
2021BookZachary D. CarterThe Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes [3] Random House
2021Book Rick Perlstein Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 [4] Simon & Schuster
2021BroadcastTony PlohetskiLights. Camera. Violence.KVUE and Austin American-Statesman
2021WebAura Bogado, Melissa Lewis The Disappeared Reveal
2021Opinion & Analysis Jamelle Bouie The New York Times [5]
2020NewspaperSamantha Melamed, Dylan Purcell, Jessica Griffin The Probation Trap Philadelphia Inquirer
2020Magazine Pamela Colloff False Witness ProPublica, New York Times Magazine
2020Book Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us [6] Bloomsbury
2020BroadcastDavid Biscobing, Gerard Watson, Shawn Martin (and team)Abuse of ForceABC15 / KNXV
2020WebJennifer Gollan, Melissa Lewis Caregivers and Takers Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting with the Associated Press, PBS Newshour and PRX
2020Opinion & Analysis Michelle Goldberg The New York Times [7]
2019Newspaper Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot Perversion of Justice Miami Herald
2019Magazine Hannah Dreier Trapped in Gangland ProPublica, New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New York Times Magazine
2019BookAnna ClarkThe Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy [8] Metropolitan Books
2019Broadcast Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley (and team) “Torn Apart” NBC News and MSNBC
2019WebJoshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson Ambushed at Home Reuters
2019Opinion & Analysis Adam Serwer The Atlantic [9]
2018Newspaper Brett Murphy Rigged USA Today Network
2018MagazineAzmat Khan & Anand Gopal The Uncounted New York Times Magazine
2018Book Richard Rothstein The Color of Law [10] Liveright/WW Norton
2018Broadcast Bill Whitaker, Ira Rosen, Sam Hornblower, Robert Zimet, Scott Higham, and Lenny Bernstein “The Whistleblower”

& “Too Big to Prosecute”

CBS News 60 Minutes and The Washington Post
2018WebAlmudena Toral, Maye Primera, Mauricio Rodriguez, Andrea Patiño, Juanje Gomez, Oscar Martinez, Carlos Martinez, Fred Ramos From Migrants to Refugees: The New Plight of Central Americans Univision & El Faro
2018Opinion & Analysis Dahlia Lithwick Slate [11]
2017Newspaper David Fahrenthold reporting on the Trump Foundation and 2016 presidential election The Washington Post
2017Magazine Nikole Hannah-Jones Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City New York Times Magazine
2017BroadcastBrendan Keefe Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation's Emergency Response System WXIA - TV, Atlanta
2017Book Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City [12] Crown
2017WebJamie Kalven Code of Silence The Intercept
2017Opinion & Analysis Adele M. Stan The American Prospect
2016Book Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2016Broadcast Melissa Harris-Perry Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC (2012-2016)
2016Newspaper Melissa del Bosque “Death on Sevenmile Road” Texas Observer/The Investigative Fund
2016Newspaper Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, Tom Robbins “Cellblock Justice" The New York Times and the Marshall Project
2016Opinion and Analysis Rebecca Traister New York Magazine, Elle [13]
2016Web Curt Guyette The Flint Water Crisis ACLU of Michigan Democracy Watch Blog
2015Web Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman “The Echo Chamber” Reuters
2015Opinion & Analysis Jelani Cobb The New Yorker [14]
2015Newspaper Bob Ortega, Daniel Gonzalez, Michael Kiefer, Daniel Nowicki, Michael Chow, David Wallace, Nick Oza, Erin Kelly, Mariana Dale, Stuart Warner, Cherrill Crosby “Pipeline of Children”
“Revisiting the Pipeline”
The Arizona Republic
2015Magazine John H. Richardson “The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” Esquire
2015Broadcast Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, Bryan Staples Policing for Profit WTVF-TV, NewsChannel 5
2015Book Edward E. Baptist The Half Has Never Been Told Basic Books
2014Book Ira Katznelson Fear Itself Liveright
2014Broadcast Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, Saundra Young "Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports" CNN
2014Magazine Jonathan Cohn "The Hell of American Daycare" The New Republic
2014NewspaperPat Beall "Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain" The Palm Beach Post
2014Opinion and Analysis Heather "Digby" Parton Hullabaloo [15]
2014WebCraig Welch, Steve Ringman "Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn" The Seattle Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
2013Book Tracie McMillan The American Way of EatingScribner
2013Newspaper Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe, and Michael Hawthorne"Playing with Fire"Chicago Tribune
2013Magazine Shane Bauer "No Way Out"Mother Jones/The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute
2013Photojournalism Rick Loomis "Beyond Seven Billion"Los Angeles Times
2013Broadcast journalismBrian Ross, Matthew Mosk, Rhonda Schwartz, and Cindy Galli"Tragedy in Bangladesh"ABC News
2012Book Frank Bardacke Trampling Out the VintageVerso
2012NewspaperHeather Vogell, Alan Judd, John Perry"The Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2012Magazine Sarah Stillman "The Invisible Army"The New Yorker
2012PhotojournalismKatie Falkenberg"A Lasting Toll"Los Angeles Times
2012Broadcast journalism Yoav Potash "Crime After Crime"The Oprah Winfrey Network
2012Web journalismSeth Freed Wessler"Thousands of Kids Lost From Parents in U.S Deportation System"Colorlines.com
2012Opinion & Analysis Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic
2011Book Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns Random House
2011Newspaper Brad Heath and Kevin McCoy "Justice in the Balance"USA Today
2011Magazine Tim Noah "The Great Divergence"Slate.com
2011Photojournalism Mona Reeder "A Surgery Gone Wrong"Dallas Morning News
2011Broadcast journalism Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan"Clover Films/ Frontline, WGBH
2010Book Nick Reding MethlandBloomsbury
2010Newspaper Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry, Alison Fitzgerald and Craig Torres "The Fight for Transparency"Bloomberg News
2010Magazine Rebecca Clarren "The Dark Side of Dairies"High Country News
2010Photography Craig F. Walker "Ian Fisher: American Soldier"The Denver Post
2010Photography Joe Amon, Hyoung Chang, Andy Cross, Judy DeHaas, Reza Marvashti, R J Sangosti, and Craig F. Walker "Below the Line: Childhood Poverty in Colorado"The Denver Post
2010Photography Honorable Mention Sarah L. Voisin "In Mexico's war on drugs, battle lines are drawn in chalk"The Washington Post
2010Broadcast Maria Hinojosa, Brenda Breslauer, Brian Epstein, Mona Iskander "Justice Delayed"NOW, PBS
2010Blog Jonathan Cohn The TreatmentThe New Republic
2010Blog Ezra Klein The Washington Post [16]
2009Book Jane Mayer The Dark Side Doubleday
2009Book Steven Greenhouse The Big SqueezeKnopf
2009Newspaper Nina Bernstein "Deaths in Immigrant Detention"The New York Times
2009Newspaper SPECIAL MENTION Alexandra Berzon "Construction Worker Deaths on the Las Vegas Strip"Las Vegas Sun
2009MagazineSpecial Issue: "The New Inequality"The Nation
2009Magazine SPECIAL MENTION Jonathan Cohn "Auto Destruct"The New Republic
2009Photo-journalism Carol Guzy "Birth and Death: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone"The Washington Post
2009Photo-journalism SPECIAL MENTION Sonya Hebert "At the Edge of Life"The Dallas Morning News
2009Broadcast Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar "Made in L.A."POV [17]
2009Broadcast SPECIAL MENTION Peter Noyes and John Schwada "House Thefts"KTTV-FOX Los Angeles
2009Broadcast SPECIAL MENTION Larry Adelman, Llew Smith and Christine Herbes-Sommers "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?"California Newsreel with Vital Pictures
2009Blog Marcy Wheeler EmptyWheel.FireDogLake.com [16]
2008Book Robert Kuttner The Squandering of AmericaKnopf
2008Newspaper Charles Duhigg "Golden Opportunities"The New York Times
2008Magazine Ray Ring Death in the Energy FieldsHigh Country News
2008Broadcast Bill Moyers, Kathleen Hughes "Buying the War"Bill Moyers Journal
2008Photography Luis Sinco "The Marlboro Marine"Los Angeles Times
2008Blog Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel "Think Progress"Center for American Progress [18]
2007Book Thomas E. Ricks Fiasco
2007Newspaper Rukmini Maria Callimachi Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermathThe Associated Press
2007Magazine Douglas McGray "The Invisibles"West Magazine, Los Angeles Times
2007Broadcast Spike Lee, Sam Pollard "When the Levees Broke"40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/HBO
2007Photography Mike Stocker, Joe Amon "Aids Orphans"South Florida Sun-Sentinel
2007Blog Sam Rosenfeld, Ann Friedman, Garance Franke-Ruta, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias "Tapped"The American Prospect
2006BookN/AAward withheld [19]
2006Newspaper Cam Simpson "Pipeline to Peril"Chicago Tribune
2006Magazine Dave Evans, Mike Smith, Liz Willen, Jonathan Neumann "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret"Bloomberg Markets
2006Broadcast Craig Cheatham, Jim Thomas, Marty Van Housen "La Oroya"KMOV-TV, St Louis
2006Photography Hector Amezcua, Tom Knudson "Los Piñeros"Sacramento Bee
2006Blog Joshua Micah Marshall Coverage of Social Security IssuesTalking Points Memo
2005Book Jason DeParle American Dream
2005Newspaper Peter G. Gosselin "The New Deal"Los Angeles Times
2005Magazine Sarah Karp "Our Next Generation"The Chicago Reporter
2005Broadcast Greg Barker "Ghosts of Rwanda" PBS Frontline
2005PhotographyLos Angeles TimesAward for Overall ExcellenceLos Angeles Times
2004Book David Von Drehle Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
2004NewspaperNancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani, Tyler Marshall "The Wal-Mart Effect"Los Angeles Times [20]
2004Newspaper David Barstow, Lowell Bergman "Dangerous Business"The New York Times
2004Magazine John Bowe "Nobodies"The New Yorker
2004Broadcast Brett Shipp, Mark Smith, Kraig Kirchem State of DenialWFAA-TV
2004Photography Stanley Greene "Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003"Trolley
2003Book Steven R. Weisman The Great Tax Wars
2003Newspaper Ellen Schultz and Theo Francis "Valued Employees: Worker Dies, Firm Profits"The Wall Street Journal
2003Broadcast Ofra Bikel "An Ordinary Crime"PBS Frontline
2003PhotographyDon Bartletti, Sonia Nazario "Enrique's Journey"Los Angeles Times
2002Book Diane McWhorter Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement
2002Newspaper David Olinger "Seller Beware"The Denver Post
2002Magazine Katherine Boo "After Welfare"The New Yorker
2002Broadcast Tia Lessin "Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan"Oxygen Network/WITNESS.org
2002Photography Mia Song "Poisoned Children: The Legacy of Lead"The Star-Ledger
2001Book Jack Metzgar Striking Steel
2001Newspaper Ellen Schultz selected articles on pension cutsThe Wall Street Journal
2001Magazine Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein, Gail Edmondson "Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating"Business Week
2001Broadcast Stacy Abramson, David Isay "Witness to an Execution"NPR's All Things Considered
2001Broadcast Belle Adler, Brad White "American Dream, American Nightmare"A&E
2000Book Katherine S. Newman No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
2000Newspaper Maya Bell "Why Children Kill"The Orlando Sentinel
2000Magazine Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel-and-Dimed Harper's Magazine
2000Broadcast Brian Lamb For television in the public interestC-SPAN
1998Book Taylor Branch Pillar of Fire
1998Newspaper Jerry Mitchell "The Preacher and the Klansman" and other investigative reporting on the KKKThe Clarion-Ledger
1998Magazine Donald Barlett and James Steele "What Corporate Welfare Costs You"Time Magazine [21]
1997Book Robert Kuttner Everything for Sale
1997Newspaper Jason DeParle "Learning Poverty Firsthand" and other stories of welfare reformThe New York Times
1997Magazine William Finnegan "The Unwanted"The New Yorker
1997Broadcast Ed Bradley "Town Under Siege"Ed Bradley on Assignment, CBS News
1997Book William Julius Wilson When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
1996Newspaper Rita Giordano and Alfred Lubrano "Passyunk Homes: Welfare's Ground Zero"The Philadelphia Inquirer
1996Magazine Charles Bowden "While You Were Sleeping"Harper's Magazine
1996Broadcast Grace Kahng and Stone Phillips "Toy Story"Dateline, NBC
1996Broadcast David Isay, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse"NPR's All Things Considered
1996Book Fox Butterfield All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
1995Book Nelson Lichtenstein The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention)
1995Newspaper Chris Kelley "Whither the Cities?"The Dallas Morning News
1995Magazine Eric Schlosser "In the Strawberry Fields"The Atlantic Monthly
1995Broadcast Hedrick Smith "Across the River"WETA-TV
1994Book James Traub City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College
1994Newspaper Jim Morris for the series "Worked to Death"Houston Chronicle
1994Magazine Aaron Bernstein "Inequality" and "Why America Needs Unions"Business Week
1994Broadcast Andrew Tkach "Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today"ABC News, "Turning Point"
1993Book William Chafe Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism
1993Newspaper Eileen Welsome for the series "The Plutonium Experiment"The Albuquerque Tribune
1993MagazineTeam: Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, Barry Yeoman "Poverty, Inc."Southern Exposure
1993Broadcast Ofra Bikel "Innocence Lost: The Verdict"Frontline, WGBH-TV
1992Book Ray Marshall and Marc Tucker Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations
1992Newspaper Nancy Stancill for the series "Slaves to the Sale"Houston Chronicle
1992Magazine Jonathan Schlefer "What Price Economic Growth?"The Atlantic Monthly [22]
1992Broadcast John McChesney "Morning Edition" - U.S. Manufacturing SeriesNational Public Radio
1992Broadcast Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz Dateline: Wal-Mart's Buy AmericanNBC-TV
1991Book Nicholas Lemann The Promised Land
1991Newspaper Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele for the series "America: What Went Wrong?" The Philadelphia Inquirer
1991Magazine Laurie Udesky "Punishing the Poor" Southern Exposure
1991BroadcastCalifornia Working Group"This Far By Faith"
1991Broadcast Gary Covino "David Duke: An Investigative Report"Soundprint
1990Book Andrew Revkin The Burning Season
1990NewspaperThe Detroit Free Pressfor the series "Workers at Risk" The Detroit Free Press
1990Magazine Frank Clancy "Healing the Delta and Burnout in L.A." American Health Magazine
1990Broadcast Joan Beuckman "Medical Costs: A Dangerous Diagnosis"KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO
1990Broadcast Charlayne Hunter-Gault "Through the Safety Net"MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
1989Book Thomas L. Friedman From Beirut to Jerusalem
1989Newspaper William H. Freivogel, Margaret Wolf Freivogel series on "The Shift on Civil Rights" St. Louis Post-Dispatch
1989Magazine Lawrence Weschler "A Grand Experiment"The New Yorker
1989Broadcast Joan Beuckman "Home, Street, Home"KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO
1989Broadcast Jonathan Kwitny "The Kwitny Report"WNYC/PBS
1988Book Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
1988NewspaperAnchorage Daily News"A People in Peril"Anchorage Daily News
1988Magazine Robert Scheer "The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' "Los Angeles Times Magazine
1988Broadcast Marilyn V. DeAngelis "Child Care: Everybody's Baby"WLV I-TV56, Boston, MA
1988BroadcastNational Public Radio, News and Information DivisionIn recognition of far-reaching and creative news coverage"All Things Considered", "Morning Edition", "Weekend Edition"
1987Book Raymond Bonner Waltzing with a Dictator
1987Newspaper"The Unfinished Dream"The Journal (Lorain Ohio)
1987Magazine Jerry Adler "Every Parent's Nightmare"Newsweek [23]
1987Broadcast Joan Beuckman, Margie Manning "The High Cost of Growing Old", "Truth or Consequences"KMOX Radio, CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO
1987BroadcastPublic Affairs Television, Inc."In Search of the Constitution"
1986Book Robert S. McNamara "Blundering Into Disaster"
1986Newspaper Henry Weinstein, Thomas H. Maugh II, Dan Morain for the series "Drug Testing on the Job"Los Angeles Times
1986Magazine Conor Cruise O'Brien "God and Man in Nicaragua"Atlantic Monthly
1986BroadcastCBS Reports"The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America"CBS-TV
1986Broadcast William Drummond "Vale of Tears: The Legacy of Silicon Valley"National Public Radio
1985Book Joseph Lelyveld Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
1985NewspaperSeries Writers"The American Millstone"Chicago Tribune
1985MagazineDaniel Ford"The Button"The New Yorker
1985Broadcast William Peters A Class Divided Yale University Films; Frontline, WGBH, Boston, MA
1985Broadcast Jane Elliott A Class Divided (Honorary Award)Yale University Films, Frontline, WGBH, Boston, MA
1984Book Strobe Talbott Deadly Gambits
1984NewspaperThe Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News"Freedom Summer: A Generation Later"The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News
1984Magazine Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers' Award"The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover"The Nation
1984Magazine Jacqueline Sharkey "The Tug of War"Common Cause Magazine
1984BroadcastKMOL-TV, San Antonio, TX"Valley of the Shadow of Life"KMOL-TV
1984BroadcastKMOX Radio"Series on Child Welfare"KMOX Radio, CBS affiliates, St. Louis, MO
1983Book Seymour M. Hersh The Price of Power
1983Newspaper Patrick Owens and Bob Wyrick "The Disability Nightmare"Newsday
1983Magazine Carl Sagan "Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications"Foreign Affairs
1983Broadcast Leslie Cockburn "The Pentagon Underground"Our Times with Bill Moyers, CBS News
1982Book Jonathan Schell The Fate of the Earth
1982Newspaper Rita Ciolli for the series "The Island Trees Case"Newsday
1982Magazine Elizabeth Drew "Politics and Money"The New Yorker [24]
1982Broadcast Marc Cooper and Tim Frasca "El Salvador: The Elections"Pacifica Radio News
1982Broadcast Judy Reemtsma "People Like Us"CBS News
1981Book Jacobo Timerman Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
1981Newspaper The Atlanta Constitution for the series "Black and Poor in Atlanta"The Atlanta Constitution
1981Magazine The Angolite "Louisiana Death Watch"
1981Broadcast Nina Totenberg "All Things Considered: Voting Rights Act"National Public Radio
1981Broadcast CBS Reports "The Defense of the United States"CBS News
1980Book Penny Lernoux Cry of the People
1980NewspaperThe Miami Heraldfor a series on police brutalityThe Miami Herald
1980Broadcast Bill Moyers' Journal "Campaign Report #3"WNET/13
1980BroadcastMacNeil-Lehrer ReportSpecial award for continued excellence in television journalism
1979Book William Shawcross Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia
1979Newspaper Deidre Murphy for a series on povertyDemocrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N.Y.)
1979Magazine Michael H. Brown "Love Canal and the Poisoning of America"The Atlantic Monthly
1979Broadcast Steve Singer, Tom Priestley The Killing Ground ABC-TV News Closeup
1979Broadcast Carol Colman "Women at Work"WRFM-New York
1978Book Charles E. Silberman Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice
1978Newspaper Michael Flannery & Bruce Ingersoll for a series on the working woundedChicago Sun Times
1978Newspaper I. F. Stone Special Award
1978Magazine Tracy Kidder "Soldiers of Misfortune"The Atlantic Monthly
1978Broadcast Abby Mann "King"Abby Mann/Filmway/NBC
1977Book Philip Caputo A Rumor of War
1977Newspaper Stan Swofford for a series on the "Wilmington 10"Greensboro (NC) Daily News
1977Magazine Eliot Marshall "Anatomy of Health Care Costs"The New Republic
1977Broadcast Bill Moyers "The Fire Next Door" [25]
1977BroadcastABC Television Network Roots (special award)ABC-TV
1976Book Richard Kluger Simple Justice
1976Newspaper John Seigenthaler for courage in publishingThe Tennessean
1976Magazine Guy Neal Williams "The Mushroom Pickers"Philadelphia Magazine
1976Broadcast Paul Leaf "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys"
1975Book E. J. Kahn, Jr. The China Hands
1975Newspaper William S. Randall & Stephen D. Solomon investigative reportingPhiladelphia Inquirer
1975Magazine Susan Sheehan "A Welfare Mother"The New Yorker
1975BroadcastCBS Television Network Fear on Trial CBS-TV
1974Book Richard Jackson Barnet & Ronald E. Muller Global Reach
1974Book Noel Mostert Supership
1974NewspaperThe Boston Globecoverage of school integration crisisThe Boston Globe
1974Newspaper Seymour M. Hersh articles on the C.I.A.The New York Times
1974BroadcastCBS Television Network The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman CBS-TV
1974BroadcastWNET/13Special Award for outstanding programmingWNET
1973Book Jervis Anderson A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait
1973Book Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Imperial Presidency
1973Book Alexander Solzhenitsyn Special Award
1973Newspaper Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele investigative reportingThe Philadelphia Inquirer
1973Magazine Richard L. Strout for his columns, signed TRBThe New Republic
1973Magazine Paul Brodeur "Annals of Industry: Casualties of the Workplace"The New Yorker
1973Broadcast Paul Altmeyer "Freedom & Security: The Uncertain Balance"Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
1972Book Frances FitzGerald Fire in the Lake
1972Newspaper Carl Bernstein & Robert Woodward the Watergate investigation The Washington Post
1972Magazine Frank J. Donner & Eugene Cerruti "The Grand Jury Network"The Nation [26]
1972Broadcast Lucy Jarvis "What Price Health?"NBC-TV
1971Book Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen America Inc.
1971Newspaper Alfred Friendly "Victims of the Great American Red Hunt"The Washington Post
1971Newspaper Neil Sheehan "The Pentagon Papers"The New York Times
1971Magazine Carolyn See, Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles, Richard Todd "Work in America"The Atlantic Monthly
1971Broadcast Martin Carr "This Child Is Rated X"NBC-TV
1970Book Ramsey Clark Crime in America
1970Newspaper John Kifner series on the "Kent State tragedy"The New York Times
1970Magazine Christopher H. Pyle articles on "Army surveillance of political activity"The Washington Monthly
1970Broadcast Ronn Bonn & Walter Cronkite "Can the World Be Saved"CBS News
1969BookCongressman Richard McCarthy The Ultimate Folly
1969Newspaper William J. Eaton "The Appearance of Impropriety"Chicago Daily News
1969Magazine Daniel Lang "Casualties of War"The New Yorker
1969Broadcast Fred Freed "Who Killed Lake Erie?"NBC-TV
1968Book George R. Stewart Not So Rich As You Think
1968Newspaper James K. Batten & Dwayne Walls "The People Left Behind"Charlotte Observer
1968Magazine Charles Remsberg, Bonnie Remsberg "America's Hungry Families"Good Housekeeping
1968Broadcast Bill Osterhous & Dick Huber "One Nation, Indivisible"Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
1967Book Ronald Steel Pax Americana
1967Book Alan F. Westin Privacy and Freedom
1967Newspaper Howard James series on the "Crisis in the Courts"The Christian Science Monitor
1967Broadcast Jay L. McMullen "The Tenement"CBS-TV News
1967BroadcastHarold Mayer & Lynne Rhodes Mayer, producer and writer"The Way It Is"National Educational Television Network (Honorable Mention)
1966Book Joseph P. Lyford The Airtight Cage
1966Newspaper Harrison E. Salisbury reporting from North Vietnam (special award)The New York Times [27]
1966Newspaper Robert Keveney & Douglas Walker a series on right-wing groupsDayton Daily News
1966Magazine Richard Harris "Medicare"The New Yorker
1966BroadcastWilliam C. Jersey A Time for Burning National Educational Television Network
1965Book Kenneth B. Clark Dark Ghetto
1965Magazine Theodore Draper "The Dominican Crisis - A Case Study in American Policy"Commentary
1964BookDr. James W. Silver Mississippi: The Closed Society
1964Book Bernard D. Nossiter The Mythmakers
1964Newspaper J. O. Emmerich editorials on the civil rights crisis thereEnterprise Journal (McComb, MS)
1964Magazine J. Robert Moskin "Challenge to Our Doctors"Look
1964Broadcast Joseph Wershba "Gideon's Trumpet: The Poor Man & The Law"CBS-TV
1963Book Richard Hofstadter Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
1963Newspaper Horance G. Davis editorials on civil rightsGainesville (FL) Daily Sun
1963Magazine Arnold Hano "The Burned Out Americans"Saga Magazine
1963Broadcast Millard Lampell "No Hiding Place", on the East Side/West Side seriesCBS-TV
1962Book Michael Harrington The Other America
1962Newspaper Ira Harkey editorials on the crisis at the Mississippi UniversityPascagoula (MS) Chronicle
1962Magazine Margaret Parton "Sometimes Life Just Happens"Ladies Home Journal
1962Broadcast Warren Wallace "Superfluous PeopleWCBS-TV, New York
1962Broadcast John Keats, George Dessart, David E. Wilson "Conformity"WCAU-T V, Philadelphia
1961Book Jane Jacobs Death and Life of Great American Cities
1961Newspaper Patrick J. Owens editorials on current issuesPine Bluff (AR) Commercial
1961Magazine Lillian Smith "The Ordeal of Southern Women"Redbook
1961Broadcast Al Wasserman, Robert Young, Charles Dorkins "White Paper #7: Angola: Journey to a War"NBC-TV
1960Book David McEntire Residence and Race
1960Book William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich [28]
1960Newspaper Sylvan Meyer editorials on race relationsGainesville (GA) Daily Times
1960Magazine Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake "Poor, Proud and Primitive: The Lost Appalachians"The Nation
1960Broadcast Walter Peters, Marshal Diskin "Cast the First Stone"ABC-TV
1959Book Harold M. Hyman To Try Men's Souls
1959Broadcast Edward P. Morgan News broadcasts over the ABC NetworkABC-TV
1959BroadcastWNTA-TV, N.Y. The Play of the Week programsWNTA-TV
1958Book John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society
1958Newspaper Harry L. Billings & Gretchen Billings editorials on civil liberties and public welfare systemThe People
1958Newspaper Ralph McGill editorials defending the public school systemAtlanta Constitution
1958Magazine Giorgio de Santillana "Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer"The Reporter
1958Magazine Harvey Swados "Myth of the Powerful Worker"The Nation
1958Broadcast Irving Gitlin Supervision of CBS Unit One, particularly the programs "Who Killed Michael Farmer" and " P.O.W.- A Study in Survival"CBS-TV
1957Book Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely Neither Black Nor White
1957Newspaper A. M. Secrest editorials on civil rightsCheraw (SC) Chronicle
1957Newspaper Harry Ashmore editorials on school integrationArkansas Gazette
1957Broadcast Theodore Ayres Face the Nation interview with KrushchevCBS-TV
1957Broadcast George A. Vicas "Radio Beat" debates between American and Soviet scientists and educatorsCBS Radio
1956Book Walter Gellhorn Individual Freedom and Government Restraints
1956NewspaperThe New York Timeseditorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award)The New York Times
1956Newspaper Robert H. Spiegel series on segregation in Des MoinesDes Moines Tribune
1956Magazine Robert Penn Warren "Divided South Searches Its Soul"Life
1956Magazine John Fischer "The Harm Good People Do"Harper's Magazine
1955Book John Lord National Security and Individual Freedom
1955Newspaper Murray Marder articles on the government security programThe Washington Post
1955Newspaper Ben H. Bagdikian series on civil libertiesProvidence Journal Bulletin [29]
1955Magazine Robert Engler "Oil and Politics"The New Republic
1954Book Henry Steele Commager Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent
1954Newspaper Daniel R. Fitzpatrick editorial cartoons (special award)St. Louis Dispatch
1954Newspaper Vic Reinemer editorials on civil liberties and civil rightsCharlotte (NC) News
1954Magazine Charlotte Knight "What Price Security"Collier's
1954MagazineThe Progressivespecial issue on Senator McCarthy (special award)The Progressive
1954Broadcast Eric Sevareid "American Week", programs on civil rights issuesCBS-TV
1954BroadcastWNYC, New York Citypublic service program (special award)WNYC
1953Book Theodore H. White [30] Fire in the Ashes
1953Newspaper Ralph S. O'Leary [30] a series on civil libertiesHouston Post
1953Magazine Joseph Wechsberg [30] "The Seventeenth of June"The New Yorker
1953Broadcast Edward R. Murrow [30] "See It Now" programs on civil libertiesCBS-TV
1953Broadcast Gerald W. Johnson [30] broadcast on civil liberties and other issues WAAM, Baltimore
1952Book Herbert Block The Herblock Book
1952Newspaper W. Horace Carter, Willard G. Cole, Jay Jenkins,articles and editorials exposing the Ku Klux KlanNorth Carolina Tribune, North Carolina News and Reporter, North Carolina News and Observer
1951Book Alan Barth The Loyalty of Free Men
1951Newspaper Carl T. Rowan articles on race relations in the SouthMinneapolis Tribune
1951Magazine Arthur D. Morse "Who's Trying to Ruin Our Schools?"McCall's
1950Book John Hersey The Wall
1950Newspaper A. H. Raskin articles on laborThe New York Times
1950Newspaper Murray Kempton articles on labor in the SouthNew York Post
1950Magazine James H. Means, M.D."Doctors Lobby and England's Public Medicine: The Facts"The Atlantic Monthly [31]

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