The wait is over! Meet the brilliant, brave, committed, creative winners of the 2014 Hillman Prizes:

• Book: Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself, Liveright Publishing Corp, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. 

• Newspaper: Pat Beal, “Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, and Pain,” The Palm Beach Post.

• Magazine: Jonathan Cohn, “The Hell of American Daycare,” The New Republic. 

• Broadcast: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, Saundra Young, “Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports,” CNN. 

• Web: Craig Welch & Steve Ringman “Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn,” The Seattle Times. 

• Opinion & Analysis Journalism: Digby aka Heather Parton, Hullaballoo.

Congratulations to all the winners.