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2009 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism

The Nation

Special Issue: The New Inequality

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The NationIn its June 30, 2008 special issue collaboration, the Nation and the Institute for Policy Studies joined forces to produce the best reporting and thinking about the critical issue of inequality in America.


Previous Honorees in Magazine Journalism

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Yearsort icon Honoree Title Publisher/Airer Site
2008 Ray Ring Death in the Energy Fields High Country News Go
2007 Douglas McGray The Invisibles West Magazine, Los Angeles Times Go
2006 Dave Evans, Mike Smith, Liz Willen and Jonathan Neumann, Big Pharma's Shameful Secret Bloomberg Markets
2005 Sarah Karp Our Next Generation The Chicago Reporter Go
2004 John Bowe Nobodies The New Yorker
2002 Katherine Boo After Welfare The New Yorker Go
2001 Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein, Gail Edmondson and team Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating Business Week Go
2000 Barbara Ehrenreich Nickle-and-Dimed Harper's Magazine Go
1998 Donald Barlett & James Steele What Corporate Welfare Costs You Time Magazine
1997 William Finnegan The Unwanted The New Yorker
1996 Charles Bowden While You We re Sleeping Harper's Magazine
1995 Eric Schlosser In the Strawberry Fields The Atlantic Monthly
1994 Aaron Bernstein Inequality andWhy America Needs Unions Business Week
1993 Team: Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, and Barry Yeoman Poverty, Inc. Southern Exposure
1992 Jonathan Schlefer What Price Economic Growth? The Atlantic Monthly
1991 Laurie Udesky Punishing the Poor Southern Exposure
1990 Frank Clancy Healing the Delta andBurnout in L.A. American Health Magazine
1989 Lawrence Weschler A Grand Experiment The New Yorker
1988 Robert Scheer The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' Los Angeles Times Magazine
1987 Jerry Adler Every Parent's Nightmare Newsweek
1986 Conor Cruise O'Brien God and Man in Nicaragua Atlantic Monthly
1985 Daniel Ford The Button The New Yorker
1984 Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers' Award The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover The Nation
1984 Jacqueline Sharkey The Tug of Wa r Common Cause Magazine
1983 Carl Sagan Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications Foreign Affairs

Special mention

Jonathan Cohn

"Auto Destruct"

The New Republic

Jonathan Cohn