The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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| Year | Category | Honoree |
Title |
Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Magazine | Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers' Award | The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover | The Nation | |
| 2008 | Book | Robert Kuttner | The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity | Knopf | |
| 1954 | Magazine | Joseph Wechsberg | The Seventeenth of June | The New Yorker | |
| 2024 | Newspaper | Hannah Beckler | The Secret Terror Inside U.S. Prisons | Business Insider | |
| 2022 | Web | ProPublica staff | The Secret IRS Files | ProPublica | |
| 1961 | Book | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | ||
| 2023 | Web | John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald | The Rise and Fall of a Predatory Police Force | AL.com | |
| 2023 | Newspaper | Catherine Porter, Matt Apuzzo, Constant Méheut, Selam Gebrekidan | The Ransom: The Root of Haiti’s Misery | The New York Times | |
| 1992 | Book | Nicholas Lemann | The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America | Knopf | |
| 2020 | Newspaper | Samantha Melamed, Dylan Purcell, Jessica Griffin | The Probation Trap | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1984 | Book | Seymour M. Hersh | The Price of Power | ||
| 2021 | Book | Zachary D. Carter | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes | Random House | |
| 1999 | Newspaper | Jerry Mitchell | The Preacher and the Klansman & other investigative reporting on the KKK | The Clarion-Ledger | |
| 2019 | Book | Anna Clark | The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy | Metropolitan Books | |
| 1969 | Newspaper | James K. Batten & Dwayne Walls | The People Left Behind | Charlotte Observer | |
| 1984 | Broadcast | Leslie Cockburn | The Pentagon Underground | Our Times with Bill Moyers, CBS News | |
| 1972 | Newspaper | Neil Sheehan | The Pentagon Papers | The New York Times | |
| 1963 | Book | Michael Harrington | The Other America | ||
| 1962 | Magazine | Lillian Smith | The Ordeal of Southern Women | Redbook | |
| 2005 | Newspaper | Peter G. Gosselin | The New Deal | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1965 | Book | Bernard D. Nossiter | The Mythmakers | ||
| 1977 | Magazine | Guy Neal Williams | The Mushroom Pickers | Philadelphia Magazine | |
| 1996 | Book | Nelson Lichtenstein | The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention) | Basic Books | |
| 2008 | Photography | Luis Sinco | The Marlboro Marine: Two lives blurred together by a photo | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1989 | Magazine | Robert Scheer | The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' | Los Angeles Times Magazine |