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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Category Honoree Title Publisher/Airer Sitesort icon
1963 Broadcast Millard Lampell "No Hiding Place," on the East Side/West Side series CBS-TV
1964 Broadcast Joseph Wershba Gideon's Trumpet: The Poor Man & The Law CBS-TV
1966 Broadcast William C. Jersey A Time for Burning National Educational Television Network
1967 Broadcast Jay L. McMullen The Tenement CBS-TV News
1967 Broadcast Harold & Lynne Rhodes Mayer, producer and writer The Way It Is National Educational Television Network (Honorable Mention)
1968 Broadcast Bill Osterhous & Dick Huber One Nation, Indivisible Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
1969 Broadcast Fred Freed Who Killed Lake Erie? NBC-TV
1970 Broadcast Ronn Bonn & Walter Cronkite Can the World Be Saved CBS News
1971 Broadcast Martin Carr This Child Is Rated X NBC-TV
1972 Broadcast Lucy Jarvis What Price Health? NBC-TV
1973 Broadcast Paul Altmeyer Freedom & Security: The Uncertain Balance Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
1974 Broadcast CBS Television Network Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman CBS-TV
1974 Broadcast WNET/13 Special Award for outstanding programming WNET
1975 Broadcast CBS Television Network Fear on Trial CBS-TV
1976 Broadcast Paul Leaf Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1977 Broadcast Bill Moyers The Fire Next Door
1977 Broadcast ABC Television Network Roots (special award) ABC-TV
1978 Broadcast Abby Mann King Abby Mann/Filmway/NBC
1979 Broadcast Steve Singer and Tom Priestley The Killing Ground ABC-TV News Closeup
1979 Broadcast Carol Colman Women at Work WRFM-New York
1980 Broadcast Bill Moyers' Journal Campaign Report #3 WNET/13
1980 Broadcast MacNeil-Lehrer Report Special award for continued excellence in television journalism
1981 Broadcast Nina Totenberg, producer All Things Considered: Voting Rights Act National Public Radio
1981 Broadcast CBS Reports The Defense of the United States CBS News
1982 Broadcast Marc Cooper & Tim Frasca El Salvador: The Elections Pacifica Radio News