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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Category Honoree Title Publisher/Airer Sitesort icon
1978 Newspaper Michael Flannery & Bruce Ingersoll for a series on the working wounded Chicago Sun Times
1978 Newspaper I . F. Stone Special Award
1977 Newspaper Stan Swofford for a series on the Wilmington 10 Greensboro (NC) Daily News
1976 Newspaper John Seigenthaler for courage in publishing The Tennessean
1975 Newspaper William S. Randall & Stephen D. Solomon investigative reporting Philadelphia Inquirer
1974 Newspaper The Boston Globe coverage of school integration crisis The Boston Globe
1974 Newspaper Seymour M. Hersh articles on the C.I.A. The New York Times
1973 Newspaper Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele investigative reporting The Philadelphia Inquirer
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
1971 Newspaper Neil Sheehan The Pentagon Papers The New York Times
1970 Newspaper John Kifner series on the Kent State tragedy The New York Times
1969 Newspaper William J. Eaton The Appearance of Impropriety Chicago Daily News
1968 Newspaper James K. Batten & Dwayne Walls The People Left Behind Charlotte Observer
1967 Newspaper Howard James series on the Crisis in the Courts The Christian Science Monitor
1966 Newspaper Harrison E. Salisbury reporting from North Vietnam (special award) The New York Times
1966 Newspaper Robert Keveney & Douglas Walker a series on right-wing groups Dayton Daily News
1964 Newspaper J. O. Emmerich editorials on the civil rights crisis there Enterprise Journal (McComb, MS)
1963 Newspaper Horance G. Davis editorials on civil rights Gainesville (FL) Daily Sun
1962 Newspaper Ira Harkey editorials on the crisis at the Mississippi University Pascagoula ( M S ) Chronicle
1961 Newspaper Patrick J. Owens ed itorials on current issues Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial
1960 Newspaper Sylvan Meyer editorials on race relations Gainesville (GA) Daily Times
1958 Newspaper Harry L. & Gretchen Billings editorials on civil liberties and public welfare system The People
1958 Newspaper Ralph McGill editorials defending the public school system Atlanta Constitution
1957 Newspaper A. M. Secrest editorials on civil rights Cheraw (SC) Chronicle