The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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| Year | Category |
Honoree |
Title | Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Officers’ Award | Sol Stetin | President Emeritus, Textile Workers Union of America | ||
| 2007 | Broadcast | Spike Lee and Sam Pollard | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/HBO | |
| 2001 | Broadcast | Stacy Abramson and Dave Isay | Witness to an Execution | NPR's All Things Considered | |
| 1978 | Newspaper | Stan Swofford | for a series on the Wilmington 10 | Greensboro (NC) Daily News | |
| 2004 | Photography | Stanley Greene | Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 | Trolley | |
| 1980 | Broadcast | Steve Singer and Tom Priestley | The Killing Ground | ABC-TV News Closeup | |
| 2009 | Book | Steven Greenhouse | The Big Squeeze | Knopf | |
| 2003 | Book | Steven R. Weisman | The Great Tax Wars | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1985 | Book | Strobe Talbott | Deadly Gambits | ||
| 1999 | Officers’ Award | Students Against Sweatshops | Students Against Sweatshops | ||
| 2000 | Officers’ Award | Studs Terkel | Studs Terkel | ||
| 1976 | Magazine | Susan Sheehan | A Welfare Mother | The New Yorker | |
| 1961 | Newspaper | Sylvan Meyer | editorials on race relations | Gainesville (GA) Daily Times | |
| 2012 | Opinion & Analysis | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic | |
| 1999 | Book | Taylor Branch | Pillar of Fire | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1982 | Magazine | The Angolite | Louisiana Death Watch | ||
| 1982 | Newspaper | The Atlanta Constitution | for the series Black and Poor in Atlanta | The Atlanta Constitution | |
| 1975 | Newspaper | The Boston Globe | coverage of school integration crisis | The Boston Globe | |
| 1985 | Newspaper | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | Freedom Summer: A Generation Later | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | |
| 1991 | Newspaper | The Detroit Free Press | for the series "Workers at Risk" | The Detroit Free Press | |
| 1988 | Newspaper | The Journal | The Unfinished Dream | (Lorain Ohio) | |
| 1981 | Newspaper | The Miami Herald | for a series on police brutality | The Miami Herald | |
| 2009 | Magazine | The Nation | The New Inequality - Special Issue | The Nation | |
| 2020 | Officers’ Award | The nearly 50,000 UAW members who stood up and took on General Motors in a strike that lasted for 40 days | 2020 Hillman Officers’ Award | ||
| 1957 | Newspaper | The New York Times | editorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award) | The New York Times |