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Year Category Honoree Title Publisher/Airersort icon Site
2011 Magazine Tim Noah The Great Divergence slate.com Go
1991 Broadcast Gary Covino David Duke: An Investigative Report SOUNDPRINT
2007 Photography Mike Stocker and Joe Amon Aids Orphans South Florida Sun-Sentinel
1991 Magazine Laurie Udesky Punishing the Poor Southern Exposure
1993 Magazine Team: Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, and Barry Yeoman Poverty, Inc. Southern Exposure
1954 Newspaper Daniel R. Fitzpatrick editorial cartoons (special award) St. Louis Dispatch
1989 Newspaper William H. and Margaret Wolf Freivogel series on The Shift on Civil Rights St. Louis Post-Dispatch
2006 Blog Joshua Micah Marshall Coverage of Social Security Issues Talking Points Memo Go
1993 Newspaper Eileen Welsome for the series The Plutonium Experiment The Albuquerque Tribune
2007 Blog Sam Rosenfeld, Web editor, Ann Friedman, Web deputy editor , Garance Franke-Ruta, Ezra Klein, and Matthew Yglesias, bloggers Tapped The American Prospect Go
2007 Newspaper Rukmini Maria Callimachi Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath The Associated Press
1981 Newspaper The Atlanta Constitution for the series Black and Poor in Atlanta The Atlanta Constitution
2012 Newspaper Heather Vogell, Alan Judd, John Perry "The Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal" The Atlanta Journal Constitution Go
2012 Opinion & Analysis Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Go
1950 Magazine James H. Means, M.D. Doctors Lobby and England's Public Medicine: The Facts The Atlantic Monthly
1971 Magazine Carolyn See, Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles and Richard Todd Work in America The Atlantic Monthly
1978 Magazine Tracy Kidder Soldiers of Misfortune The Atlantic Monthly
1979 Magazine Michael H. Brown Love Canal and the Poisoning of America The Atlantic Monthly
1992 Magazine Jonathan Schlefer What Price Economic Growth? The Atlantic Monthly
1995 Magazine Eric Schlosser In the Strawberry Fields The Atlantic Monthly
1974 Newspaper The Boston Globe coverage of school integration crisis The Boston Globe
2005 Magazine Sarah Karp Our Next Generation The Chicago Reporter Go
1967 Newspaper Howard James series on the Crisis in the Courts The Christian Science Monitor
1998 Newspaper Jerry Mitchell The Preacher and the Klansman& other investigative reporting on the KKK The Clarion-Ledger
1984 Newspaper The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News Freedom Summer: A Generation Later The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News