2009 Hillman Prizes
2009 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals Doubleday
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2009 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism
“Deaths in Immigrant Detention” The New York Times
SPECIAL MENTION
Alexandra Berzon “Construction Worker Deaths on the Las Vegas Strip,” Las Vegas Sun
2009 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
Special Issue: The New Inequality
SPECIAL MENTION
Jonathan Cohn “Auto Destruct” The New Republic
2009 Hillman Prize for Photo-journalism
“Birth and Death: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone”
The Washington Post
SPECIAL MENTION
Sonya Hebert “At the Edge of Life” The Dallas Morning News
2009 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism
Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar
“Made in L.A.” POV
SPECIAL MENTION
Peter Noyes & John Schwada “House Thefts” KTTV-FOX Los Angeles
Larry Adelman, Llew Smith & Christine Herbes-Sommers
“Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” California Newsreel with Vital Pictures
2009 Hillman Prize for Blog JournalismJudges
- Rose Marie Arce
- Senior Producer, CNN
- Hendrik Hertzberg
- Senior Editor, The New Yorker
- Susan Meiselas
- Photographer, Author,
Magnum Photos - Harold Meyerson
- Editor at Large,
The American Prospect - Katrina vanden Heuvel
- Editor and Publisher, The Nation