James Aronson Award
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James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism has been awarded by Hunter College
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 :...

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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
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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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
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