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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Category Honoree Title Publisher/Airersort icon Site
1969 Magazine Daniel Lang Casualties of War The New Yorker
1973 Magazine Paul Brodeur Annals of Industry: Casualties of the Workplace The New Yorker
1975 Magazine Susan Sheehan A Welfare Mother The New Yorker
1982 Magazine Elizabeth Drew Politics and Money The New Yorker
1985 Magazine Daniel Ford The Button The New Yorker
1989 Magazine Lawrence Weschler A Grand Experiment The New Yorker
1997 Magazine William Finnegan The Unwanted The New Yorker
2002 Magazine Katherine Boo After Welfare The New Yorker Go
2004 Magazine John Bowe Nobodies The New Yorker
2012 Magazine Sarah Stillman "The Invisible Army" The New Yorker Go
2012 Broadcast Yoav Potash "Crime After Crime" The Oprah Winfrey Network Go
2000 Newspaper Maya Bell Why Children Kill The Orlando Sentinel
1958 Newspaper Harry L. & Gretchen Billings editorials on civil liberties and public welfare system The People
1996 Newspaper Rita Giordano & Alfred Lubrano Passyunk Homes: Welfare The Philadelphia Inquirer
1991 Newspaper Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele for the series America: What Went Wrong? The Philadelphia Inquirer
1973 Newspaper Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele investigative reporting The Philadelphia Inquirer
1954 Magazine The Progressive special issue on Senator McCarthy (special award) The Progressive
1958 Magazine Giorgio De Santillana Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer The Reporter
2002 Photography Mia Song Poisoned Children: The Legacy of Lead The Star-Ledger
1976 Newspaper John Seigenthaler for courage in publishing The Tennessean
1970 Magazine Christopher H. Pyle articles on Army surveillance of political activity The Washington Monthly
1972 Newspaper Carl Bernstein & Robert Woodward the Watergate investigation The Washington Post
1971 Newspaper Alfred Friendly Victims of the Great American Red Hunt The Washington Post
2009 Photography Carol Guzy "Birth and Death" The Washington Post
2010 Blog Ezra Klein Ezra Klein The Washington Post Go