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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Categorysort icon Honoree Title Publisher/Airer Site
1997 Newspaper Jason DeParle Learning Poverty Firsthand& other stories of welfare reform The New York Times
1996 Newspaper Rita Giordano & Alfred Lubrano Passyunk Homes: Welfare The Philadelphia Inquirer
1995 Newspaper Chris Kelley for the series Whither the Cities? The Dallas Morning News
1994 Newspaper Jim Morris for the series Worked to Death Houston Chronicle
1993 Newspaper Eileen Welsome for the series The Plutonium Experiment The Albuquerque Tribune
1992 Newspaper Nancy Stancill for the series Slaves to the Sale Houston Chronicle
1991 Newspaper Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele for the series America: What Went Wrong? The Philadelphia Inquirer
1990 Newspaper The Detroit Free Press for the series Workers at Risk The Detroit Free Press
1989 Newspaper William H. and Margaret Wolf Freivogel series on The Shift on Civil Rights St. Louis Post-Dispatch
1988 Newspaper Anchorage Daily News A People in Peril Anchorage Daily News
1987 Newspaper The Journal The Unfinished Dream (Lorain Ohio)
1986 Newspaper Henry Weinstein, Thomas H. Maugh II, and Dan Morain for the series Drug Testing on the Job Los Angeles Times
1985 Newspaper Series Writers The American Millstone Chicago Tribune
1984 Newspaper The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News Freedom Summer: A Generation Later The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News
1983 Newspaper Patrick Owens & Bob Wyrick The Disability Nightmare Newsday
1982 Newspaper Rita Ciolli for the series The Island Trees Case Newsday
1981 Newspaper The Atlanta Constitution for the series Black and Poor in Atlanta The Atlanta Constitution
1980 Newspaper The Miami Herald for a series on police brutality The Miami Herald
1979 Newspaper D e i d re Murphy for a series on poverty Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
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