The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
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2023 | Book | Margaret A. Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners | W. W. Norton & Co. | |
2023 | Newspaper | Catherine Porter, Matt Apuzzo, Constant Méheut, Selam Gebrekidan | The Ransom: The Root of Haiti’s Misery | The New York Times | |
2023 | Broadcast | Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz, and Kelsey Desiderio | Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | MSNBC | |
2023 | Magazine | Ava Kofman | Endgame | ProPublica and The New Yorker | |
2023 | Opinion & Analysis | Chai Dingari, Gerald Lane, Anthony Mascorro, Sean Morrow, and Brooke Shuman | The Class Room | More Perfect Union | |
2023 | Web | John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald | The Rise and Fall of a Predatory Police Force | AL.com | |
2023 | David Cole | 2023 George Barrett Award Recipient | |||
2022 | Book | Eyal Press | Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
2022 | Book | Clint Smith | How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Little, Brown and Company | |
2022 | Broadcast | Dave Biscobing and Shawn Martin | Politically Charged | ABC15 Arizona | |
2022 | Magazine | Ari Berman | Reporting on Voting Rights | Mother Jones | |
2022 | Newspaper | Gina Barton, Daphne Duret and Brett Murphy | “Behind the Blue Wall” | USA TODAY | |
2022 | Web | ProPublica staff | The Secret IRS Files | ProPublica | |
2022 | Eric Foner | 2022 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | |||
2021 | Opinion & Analysis | Jamelle Bouie | Jamelle Bouie | The New York Times | |
2021 | Officers’ Award | Robert Parris Moses | Founder and President, The Algebra Project | ||
2021 | Book | Zachary D. Carter | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes | Random House | |
2021 | Book | Rick Perlstein | Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980) | Simon & Schuster | |
2021 | Broadcast | Tony Plohetski | Lights. Camera. Violence. | KVUE and Austin American-Statesman | |
2021 | Magazine | David Dayen | Unsanitized | The American Prospect | |
2021 | Newspaper | Margie Mason and Robin McDowell | Fruits of Labor | Associated Press | |
2021 | Web | Aura Bogado and Melissa Lewis | The Disappeared | Reveal | |
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 | ||
2020 | Broadcast | David Biscobing, Gerard Watson, Shawn Martin (and team) | Abuse of Force | ABC15 / KNXV | |
2020 | Book | Rachel Louise Snyder | No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us | Bloomsbury |