James Aronson Award
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James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism has been awarded by Hunter College
since 1990.
It is to honor the Hunter College professor of journalism and editor James Aronson
.
The Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience award is named for his wife, (Blanche Mary) Grambs Aronson.
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
since 1990.
It is to honor the Hunter College professor of journalism and editor James Aronson
James Aronson
James Aronson was an American journalist. He founded the left-leaning National Guardian. He was a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.- Work before the Guardian :...
.
The Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience award is named for his wife, (Blanche Mary) Grambs Aronson.
List of Winners
Year | Category | Winner | Work | Organization |
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2009 | A.C. Thompson | "Katrina's Hidden Race War" | The Nation | |
2009 | JoAnn Wypijewski | "Carnal Knowledge" | The Nation | |
2009 | Mother Jones | "Climate Countdown," | Mother Jones | |
2009 | Nina Bernstein | coverage of immigration issues | The New York Times | |
2009 | Cartooning | Jen Sorensen Jen Sorensen Jen Sorensen is an American cartoonist who authors Slowpoke, a weekly comic strip that often focuses on current events from a liberal perspective. The comic generally makes use of three recurring characters: Mr... |
"Slowpoke Comics" | |
2008 | Lifetime Achievement | Les Payne | Newsday | |
2008 | E.J. Graff | “The Lie We Love" | Foreign Policy | |
2008 | Joseph Huff-Hannon | “Facing Foreclosure | The Indypendent | |
2008 | Nick Turse Nick Turse Nick Turse is a journalist, historian and author. He wrote The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives and recevied a Ridenhour Prize in 2010 for his accounts of the Vietnam War... |
“A My Lai a Month" | The Nation | |
2008 | Blog Award | Danny Schechter Danny Schechter Danny Schechteris a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic who writes and lectures frequently about the media in the United States and worldwide. He specializes in investigative journalism and producing programming about the interfaces among human rights, journalism,... |
NewsDissector.org. | |
2008 | Cartooning | Ed Stein Ed Stein Edward F. Stein was a former Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Chicago Colts and Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms of the National League from to .-Chicago:... |
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2007 | Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein | “The Poverty Business” | BusinessWeek | |
2007 | Helen Benedict Helen Benedict Helen Benedict is a British-American novelist and journalist, best known for her writings on social injustice and the Iraq War.-Biography:... |
“The Private War of Women Soldiers" | Salon.com | |
2007 | Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail is an American journalist who is best known as one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 Iraq invasion. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 to 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches.... |
Iraq reporting | DahrJamailIraq.com | |
2007 | Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on the use of private military companies. He is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, winner of a George Polk Book Award. He also serves as a... |
"Blackwater Worldwide" | The Nation | |
2007 | Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez | “The Mayan Way” | Daily Review of Hayward, California | |
2007 | Cartooning | Marc Simont Marc Simont Marc Simont is an artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books. Marc, inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, began drawing at a very young age. Mr... |
Lakeville [CT] Journal | |
2006 | Lifetime Achievement | Amy Goodman Amy Goodman Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.-Early life:Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York... |
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2006 | Julia Whitty | "The Fate of the Ocean," | Mother Jones | |
2006 | Corine Hegland Corine Hegland -Awards:* 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.The award is granted by Hunter College in New York City.Hegland won her award for a series of articles on the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba:-References:... |
"Guantanamo's Grip" | National Journal | |
2006 | Judy Pasternak | "Blighted Homeland" | Los Angeles Times | |
2006 | Tim Collie, Mike Stocker, Jim Amon | "Orphans of AIDS" | South Florida-Sentinel | |
2006 | Cartooning | John Sherffius John Sherffius John Sherffius is an editorial cartoonist, for the Boulder Daily Camera.He graduated from The University of California, Los Angeles.His cartoons have appeared in The Daily Bruin, the Ventura County Star, The St... |
Boulder Daily Camera | |
2005 | Lifetime Achievement | Molly Ivins Molly Ivins Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins was an American newspaper columnist, populist, political commentator, humorist and author.-Early life and education:Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas... |
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2005 | Lifetime Achievement | Anthony Lewis Anthony Lewis Anthony Lewis is a prominent liberal intellectual, writing for The New York Times op-ed page and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He was previously a columnist for the Times . Before that he was London bureau chief , Washington, D.C... |
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2005 | Gary Fields | Wall Street Journal | ||
2005 | Kevin Fagan, Brant Ward | San Francisco Chronicle | ||
2005 | Tracie McMillan | City Limits magazine | ||
2005 | Blogs | Juan Cole Juan Cole John Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole is an American scholar, public intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on... |
“Informed Comment.” | |
2005 | Cartooning | Kirk Anderson Kirk Anderson Kirk Anderson is a resident of Oakdale on the American TV soap opera, As the World Turns.- Character history :He was hired at Walsh Enterprises. He became attracted to Iva Snyder. His first assignment for Lucinda Walsh was to get the Snyder Farm. While Kirt wanted to kisse Iva, she didn't want him... |
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2004 | Seymour M. Hersh | "Abu Graib" | The New Yorker | |
2004 | Naomi Klein Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization.-Family:... |
Harper's | ||
2004 | Frank Rich Frank Rich Frank Rich is an American essayist and op-ed columnist who wrote for The New York Times from 1980, when he was appointed its chief theatre critic, until 2011... |
The New York Times | ||
2004 | Peter G. Gosselin | "New Deal" | Los Angeles Times | |
2004 | Cartooning | Bill Day | Memphis Commercial-Appeal | |
2003 | Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times... |
political commentary | The New York Times & The Nation | |
2003 | Jake Bernstein Jake Bernstein Jake Bernstein is President of Network Press, Inc. in Santa Cruz, California. Bernstein claims expertise in seasonal trading and has developed methods of trading in futures markets, and has been a featured speaker at many investment conferences and trading seminars.-Publisher and author:Bernstein... & Dave Mann |
"The Rise of the Machine" | The Texas Observer | |
2003 | John Donnelly, Colin Nickerson, David Filipov, Raja Mishra | "Lives Lost" | The Boston Globe | |
2003 | David Barstow David Barstow -Life:Born in Boston, he received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1986. Barstow has worked for The New York Times since 1999, and has been an investigative reporter there since 2002.He worked for The St... & Lowell Bergman Lowell Bergman Lowell A. Bergman is an American investigative reporter with The New York Times and a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline... |
"Dangerous Business" & "When Workers Die" | The New York Times | |
2003 | Mohamad Bazzi Mohamad Bazzi Mohamad Bazzi , is a Lebanese-American award-winning journalist. He is the former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday and a current faculty member of New York University. Bazzi was the 2007-2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations... |
Iraq War | Newsday | |
2003 | Cartooning | Mark Fiore Mark Fiore Mark Fiore is an American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons, whom the Wall Street Journal recently called the undisputed guru of the form.... |
Animated Political Cartooning | |
2002 | William Finnegan William Finnegan William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is... |
The New Yorker | ||
2002 | Seth Rosenfeld | FBI & Clark Kerr | San Francisco Chronicle | |
2002 | Rebekah Denn | African-American and white students | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | |
2002 | Katy Reckdahl | mistreatment of the homeless | Gambit Weekly | |
2002 | Cartooning | Ted Rall Ted Rall Ted Rall is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States... |
"Generalissimo El Busho" | |
2001 | William Greider William Greider William Greider is an American journalist and author who writes primarily about economics.His most recent book is . Before that he published The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, which explores the basis and history of the corporation and how people can influence further... |
“ regulatory takings ” movement | The Nation | |
2001 | Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed | “Torn From the Land” | Associated Press | |
2001 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Robert Sherrill Robert Sherrill Robert Sherrill is an American investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Nation, Texas Observer, and many other magazines over the years including Playboy, the New Republic and the New York Times Magazine.... |
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2001 | Cartooning | Dan Perkins | " Tom Tomorrow “ | |
2001 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Edward Sorel Edward Sorel Edward Sorel is an illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist, and graphic designer.Sorel is noted for his wavy pen-and-ink style, which he describes as "spontaneous direct drawing," since he does not use pencil or tracing for guidance... |
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2000 | Ellen E. Schultz | “ pension-paring spree ” | Wall Street Journal | |
2000 | Dale Maharidge Dale Maharidge Dale Maharidge is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist best known for his collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson.... , Michael Williamson |
"This American Is Hungry" | George magazine | |
2000 | Robert Scheer Robert Scheer Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation... |
Los Angeles Times & The Nation | ||
2000 | Juan Gonzalez Juan Gonzalez (journalist) Juan González is an American progressive broadcast journalist and investigative reporter. He has also been a columnist for the New York Daily News since 1987... |
New York Daily News | ||
2000 | Cartooning | Steve Brodner Steve Brodner Steve Brodner is an American satirical illustrator and caricaturist working for publications for a quarter century... |
“art journalism” | |
1999 | Sasha Abramsky | “ When They Get Out ” | Atlantic Monthly | |
1999 | Larry Johnson, Dan DeLong | “ Life and Death in Iraq ” | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | |
1999 | Marcus Stern Marcus Stern Marcus Stern is the Associate Director of the American Repertory Theater as well as the A.R.T./MXAT's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Stern lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has directed numerous productions for the A.R.T... , Dana Wilkie, Dori Meinert, Toby Eckert |
“America's Immigration Dilemma” | Copley News Service | |
1999 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Jules Feiffer Jules Feiffer Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays... |
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1999 | Cartooning | Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews... |
New Yorker magazine | |
1998 | Newsday | “ The Health Divide ” | Newsday | |
1998 | Christopher Cook | “ Plucking Workers ” | The Progressive | |
1998 | Donald L. Barlett Donald L. Barlett Donald L. Barlett is an American investigative journalist and author who collaborated with James B. Steele. According to The Washington Journalism Review they were a better investigative reporting team than even Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Together they have won two Pulitzer Prizes, two... , James B. Steele |
corporate welfare | Time | |
1997 | Commentary | Bob Herbert Bob Herbert Robert “Bob” Herbert is an American journalist op-ed columnist who wrote for The New York Times. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq war, racism and American political apathy towards race issues... |
police brutality | The New York Times |
1997 | Environmental Reporting | Karl Grossman Karl Grossman Karl Grossman is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. For more than 45 years he has pioneered the combination of investigative reporting and environmental journalism in a variety of media... |
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1997 | Socio-Economic Reporting | Marc Kaufman & Dan Stets | Philadelphia Board of City Trusts | Philadelphia Inquirer |
1997 | International Reporting | Eyal Press, Jennifer Washburn, Benn Terrall & Amy Goodman Amy Goodman Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.-Early life:Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York... |
U.S.-Indonesia Society & Suharto | The Progressive |
1996 | Charles M. Sennott | “ Armed for Profit: The Selling of U.S. Weapons ” | Boston Globe | |
1996 | Gary Webb Gary Webb Gary Webb was a Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist.Webb was best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book... |
“Dark Alliance” | San Jose Mercury News | |
1996 | Honorable Mention | Greg Davis | Maine's DeCoster Egg Farms. | |
1995 | Barry Bearak Barry Bearak Barry Leon Bearak is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and professor of journalism who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He also taught journalism as a visiting professor at the Columbia University Graduate... |
“The Waning Power of Workers” | Los Angeles Times | |
1995 | Honorable mention | Nancy Stancill | “Paid in Pain” | Charlotte Observer |
1995 | Lifetime Achievement Award | John Oakes | The New York Times | |
1994 | Allen Nairn | Haiti | The Nation | |
1994 | Honorable mention | Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes or Into the Blue, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic, Baghdad Without A Map, and A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. His next book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked... |
“ 9 to Nowhere: The Grim Side of ‘90s Growth Jobs ” | Wall Street Journal |
1994 | Honorable mention | Mike Hudson Mike Hudson Michael Hudson is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League.-Playing career:... |
“Robbin' the Hood: How Wall Street Takes from the Poor and Gives to the Rich” | Mother Jones |
1993 | Eileen Welsome Eileen Welsome Eileen Welsome is an American journalist. She received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1994 while a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune. She was awarded the prize for her articles about the government's human radiation experiments conducted on unwilling and unknowing Americans during... |
“The Plutonium Experiment” | Albuquerque Tribune | |
1993 | Honorable mention | Paul Salopek Paul Salopek Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Salopek was raised in central Mexico.-Life:Salopek received a degree in environmental biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984... |
“La Migra: The Border Patrol's Wall of Silence” | Texas Observer |
1993 | Honorable mention | New Orleans Times-Picayune | “ The Myth of Race” | |
1992 | Mike Davis | “LA: Burning All Illusions” | The Nation | |
1992 | Honorable mention | Celia Dugger | foster care, welfare and people in poverty | The New York Times |
1992 | Honorable mention | Robert Weissman | “ The Corporate Rap Sheet ” | Multinational Monitor |
1991 | Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson was an American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, who won a National Book Award for her book about the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers.... |
“Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land.” | ||
1991 | Honorable mention | Ellen Ray, William Schaap | press assumptions and practices | Lies of Our Times |
1991 | Honorable mention | Peter Sussman | Lompoc Federal Penitentiary | The San Francisco Chronicle |
1990 | Kathy Kadane | CIA's role in Indonesia | State News Service, The Washington Post | |
1990 | Honorable Mention | Lawrence Wechsler, Alan Nairn, Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and of the Cuba Documentation Project.He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the FOIA, relating to the history of the U.S. Government's support for the Pinochet... , William Finnegan William Finnegan William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is... |
“Talk of the Town” pieces on Central America | New Yorker |