The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
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2017 | Penda Hair | 2017 George Barrett Award Recipient | |||
2016 | Book | Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
2016 | Broadcast | Melissa Harris-Perry | Melissa Harris-Perry | MSNBC (2012-2016) | |
2016 | Magazine | Melissa del Bosque | “Death on Sevenmile Road” | Texas Observer/The Investigative Fund | |
2016 | Newspaper | Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, Tom Robbins | “Cellblock Justice” | The New York Times and the Marshall Project | |
2016 | Opinion & Analysis | Rebecca Traister | Rebecca Traister | New York Magazine, Elle | |
2016 | Web | Curt Guyette | The Flint Water Crisis | ACLU of Michigan Democracy Watch Blog | |
2016 | Alice Kessler-Harris | 2016 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | |||
2015 | Book | Edward E. Baptist | The Half Has Never Been Told | Basic Books | |
2015 | Broadcast | Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, Bryan Staples | Policing for Profit | WTVF-TV, NewsChannel 5 | |
2015 | Magazine | John H. Richardson | “The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” | Esquire | |
2015 | Newspaper | Bob Ortega, Daniel Gonzalez, Michael Kiefer, Daniel Nowicki, Michael Chow, David Wallace, Nick Oza, Erin Kelly, Mariana Dale, Stuart Warner, Cherrill Crosby | “Pipeline of Children” and “Revisiting the Pipeline” | The Arizona Republic | |
2015 | Opinion & Analysis | Jelani Cobb | Jelani Cobb for The New Yorker | The New Yorker | |
2015 | Web | Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman | “The Echo Chamber” | Reuters | |
2014 | Book | Ira Katznelson | Fear Itself | Liveright Publishing Corp | |
2014 | Newspaper | Pat Beall | “Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain” | The Palm Beach Post | |
2014 | Magazine | Jonathan Cohn | “The Hell of American Daycare” | The New Republic | |
2014 | Broadcast | Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, Saundra Young | “Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports” | CNN | |
2014 | Web | Craig Welch & Steve Ringman | “Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn” | The Seattle Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | |
2014 | Opinion & Analysis | Digby aka Heather Parton | Hullabaloo | ||
2013 | Book | Tracie McMillan | The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | Scribner | |
2013 | Magazine | Shane Bauer | “No Way Out: A Special Report on Solitary Confinement” | Mother Jones/ The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute | |
2013 | Broadcast | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Mosk and Cindy Galli | “Brian Ross Investigates: Tragedy In Bangladesh” | Nightline, World News and ABCNews.com | |
2013 | Newspaper | Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne | “Playing with Fire” | Chicago Tribune | |
2013 | Opinion & Analysis | Andrew Sullivan | Andrew Sullivan | The Dish |