2009 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
The Nation
Special Issue: The New Inequality
Watch video of the awards presentation.
In 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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Year |
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

