The Hillman Prize
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The Hillman Prize is a journalism award given out annually by the Sidney Hillman
Foundation, named for the noted American labor leader. It is given to "journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good." Murray Kempton was the first recipient, in 1950. Organizations have also received the award. Each winner receives $5,000.
Sidney Hillman
Sidney Hillman was an American labor leader. Head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, he was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party.-Early years:Sidney Hillman was...
Foundation, named for the noted American labor leader. It is given to "journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good." Murray Kempton was the first recipient, in 1950. Organizations have also received the award. Each winner receives $5,000.
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2010 | Book | Nick Reding Nick Reding (journalist) Nick Reding is an American journalist.He graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in creative writing and English literature, and from New York University with a MFA in Creative Writing, where he was a University Fellow.He lives with his wife and son in Saint Louis.His work... |
Methland | Bloomsbury | ||
2010 | Newspaper | Mark Pittman Mark Pittman James Mark Pittman was a financial journalist covering corporate finance and derivative markets. He was awarded several prestigious journalism awards, the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, a New York Press Club award, the Hillman Prize and several New York Associated Press awards.-... , Bob Ivry Bob Ivry Robert Ivry is an American financial journalist, and staff reporter for Bloomberg News.He worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Examiner, Bergen Record, of Hackensack, New Jersey.... , Alison Fitzgerald Alison Fitzgerald Alison Fitzgerald is an American financial journalist, and Bloomberg News reporter.She graduated from Georgetown University, and from Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism.... & Craig Torres Craig Torres Craig Torres is an American financial journalist, and reporter for Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C.He graduated from Harvard College, and was a Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1989.... |
“The Fight for Transparency” | Bloomberg News | ||
2010 | Magazine | Rebecca Clarren Rebecca Clarren Rebecca Clarren is an American freelance journalist.She attended the Maine Biological Laboratory, Science Journalism Program in 2004.She is a contributor to Writers on the Range, and a contributing writer for High Country News and Salon.com.... |
“The Dark Side of Dairies” | High Country News | ||
2010 | Photojournalism | Craig F. Walker Craig F. Walker Craig F. Walker is an American photojournalist. In 2010, Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography "for his intimate portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood." He is on staff of The Denver... |
“Ian Fisher: American Soldier” | The Denver Post | ||
2010 | Photojournalism | Joe Amon, Hyoung Chang, Andy Cross, Judy DeHaas, Reza Marvashti, R J Sangosti, & Craig F. Walker Craig F. Walker Craig F. Walker is an American photojournalist. In 2010, Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography "for his intimate portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood." He is on staff of The Denver... |
“Below the Line: Childhood Poverty in Colorado” | |||
2010 | Photojournalism Honorable Mention | Sarah L. Voisin | “In Mexico’s war on drugs, battle lines are drawn in chalk” | The Washington Post | ||
2010 | Broadcast Journalism | Maria Hinojosa Maria Hinojosa Maria Hinojosa is a Mexican American broadcast journalist. She was Senior Correspondent for the PBS news magazine, NOW on PBS.... , Brenda Breslauer, Brian Epstein Brian Epstein Brian Samuel Epstein , was an English music entrepreneur, and is best known for being the manager of The Beatles up until his death. He also managed several other musical artists such as Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black, The Remo Four & The Cyrkle... , Mona Iskander |
"Justice Delayed" | NOW, PBS | ||
2010 | Blog | Jonathan Cohn Jonathan Cohn Jonathan Cohn is an American author and journalist who writes mainly on United States public policy and political issues. Formerly the executive editor of The American Prospect, Cohn is currently a senior editor at The New Republic magazine and a senior fellow at Demos.-Works:Cohn's writings have... |
The Treatment | The New Republic | ||
2010 | Blog | Ezra Klein Ezra Klein Ezra Klein is a liberal American blogger and columnist for The Washington Post, columnist for Bloomberg, a columnist for Newsweek, and a contributor to MSNBC... |
The Washington Post | |||
2009 | Book | Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1995... |
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals | Doubleday | ||
2009 | Book | Steven Greenhouse Steven Greenhouse Steven Greenhouse is an American journalist, and labor and workplace correspondent for the New York Times.He graduated from Wesleyan University, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and the New York University School of Law... |
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker | Knopf | ||
2009 | Newspaper | Nina Bernstein | “Deaths in Immigrant Detention” | The New York Times | ||
2009 | Newspaper SPECIAL MENTION | Alexandra Berzon Alexandra Berzon Alexandra Berzon is an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering Las Vegas, Nevada. She is best known for a series of investigative stories on construction worker deaths on the Las Vegas Strip for which her paper, the Las Vegas Sun, received a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service,... |
“Construction Worker Deaths on the Las Vegas Strip,” | Las Vegas Sun | ||
2009 | Magazine | Special Issue: "The New Inequality" | The Nation | |||
2009 | Magazine SPECIAL MENTION | Jonathan Cohn Jonathan Cohn Jonathan Cohn is an American author and journalist who writes mainly on United States public policy and political issues. Formerly the executive editor of The American Prospect, Cohn is currently a senior editor at The New Republic magazine and a senior fellow at Demos.-Works:Cohn's writings have... |
“Auto Destruct” | The New Republic | ||
2009 | Photo-journalism | Carol Guzy Carol Guzy Carol Guzy is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post photographer.-Life and career:Guzy grew up in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.... |
“Birth and Death: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone” | The Washington Post | ||
2009 | Photo-journalism SPECIAL MENTION | Sonya Hebert | “At the Edge of Life” | The Dallas Morning News | ||
2009 | Broadcast | Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar | “Made in L.A.” | POV | ||
2009 | Broadcast SPECIAL MENTION | Peter Noyes Peter Noyes Dr Peter Noyes is the Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Newport in Newport, South Wales, UK.Noyes has a degree in social psychology from Loughborough University and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of London... & John Schwada |
“House Thefts” | KTTV-FOX Los Angeles | ||
2009 | Broadcast SPECIAL MENTION | Larry Adelman, Llew Smith Llew Smith Llewellyn Thomas Smith is a former Welsh Labour Party politician.Smith was Member of the European Parliament for South Wales East from 1984 to 1994, and at the 1992 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament for Blaenau Gwent. A member of the Socialist Campaign Group, he stood down... & Christine Herbes-Sommers |
“Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” | California Newsreel with Vital Pictures | ||
2009 | Blog | Marcy Wheeler Marcy Wheeler Marcy Wheeler is an American blogger who wrote in The Next Hurrah prior to contributing primarily to Jane Hamsher's FireDogLake , between early December 2007 and July 2011.... |
EmptyWheel.FireDogLake.com | |||
2008 | Book | Robert Kuttner Robert Kuttner Robert Kuttner is an American journalist and writer. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as "an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement... |
The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity | Knopf | ||
2008 | Newspaper | Charles Duhigg Charles Duhigg Charles Duhigg is a reporter at The New York Times, where he writes for the business section. Prior to joining the staff of the New York Times in 2006, he was a staff writer of the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Brooklyn, New York City... |
"Golden Opportunities" | The New York Times | ||
2008 | Magazine | Ray Ring Ray Ring -Works:*, High Country News, July 24, 2006*, High Country News, Aug 15, 2009-External links:... |
Death in the Energy Fields | High Country News | ||
2008 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers Bill Moyers Bill Moyers is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news commentator on television for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public... , Kathleen Hughes Kathleen Hughes Kathleen Hughes is an American film, stage, and television actress from Hollywood, California.Kathleen's ambition as an actress came from two sources. She saw a film with actor Donald O'Connor, which gave her the idea that acting looked like fun. Also, her uncle was playwright F... |
"Buying the War" | Bill Moyers Journal | ||
2008 | Photography | Luis Sinco | "The Marlboro Marine: Two lives blurred together by a photo" | Los Angeles Times | ||
2008 | Blog | Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel | "Think Progress: A Project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund" | Center for American Progess | ||
2007 | Book | Thomas E. Ricks | Fiasco | |||
2007 | Newspaper | Rukmini Maria Callimachi Rukmini Maria Callimachi Rukmini Maria Callimachi is a Romanian-American journalist and poet.-Life:She left Romania during the communist regime with her mother, father and grandmother, for Switzerland and then the United States.... |
Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath | The Associated Press | ||
2007 | Magazine | Douglas McGray | "The Invisibles" | West Magazine, Los Angeles Times | ||
2007 | Broadcast | Spike Lee Spike Lee Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.... , Sam Pollard Sam Pollard - Sources used : — Dingle describes how Sam Pollard used positioning of vowel marks relative to consonants to indicate tones — Morrison recounts meeting Sam Pollard and his wife at the Bible Christian Mission in 1894 — reports on an article in The Sunday Times describing the... |
"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" | 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/HBO | ||
2007 | Photography | Mike Stocker, Joe Amon | "Aids Orphans" | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | ||
2007 | Blog | Sam Rosenfeld, Ann Friedman, Garance Franke-Ruta Garance Franke-Ruta Garance Franke-Ruta is the politics editor of The Atlantic Online. Previously she was a national web politics editor for the Washington Post and a blogger for its WhoRunsGov site, a senior editor at the American Prospect and a senior writer at the Washington City Paper, D.C.'s alternative weekly... , Ezra Klein Ezra Klein Ezra Klein is a liberal American blogger and columnist for The Washington Post, columnist for Bloomberg, a columnist for Newsweek, and a contributor to MSNBC... , Matthew Yglesias |
"Tapped" | The American Prospect | ||
2006 | Book | N/A | Award withheld | |||
2006 | Newspaper | Cam Simpson Cam Simpson Cam Simpson is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.He was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.-Awards:*2003 George Polk Award, National Reporting*2005 George Polk Award, International Reporting *2010 Michael Kelly Award finalist... |
"Pipeline to Peril" | Chicago Tribune | ||
2006 | Magazine | Dave Evans, Mike Smith Michael Smith (journalist) Michael Smith is a journalist for Bloomberg News.He was a freelance journalist covering Chile.He graduated from University of North Carolina.He worked at the Daily Record in Morristown, New Jersey and the Associated Press.... , Liz Willen, Jonathan Neumann |
"Big Pharma's Shameful Secret" | Bloomberg Markets | ||
2006 | Broadcast | Craig Cheatham, Jim Thomas, Marty Van Housen | "La Oroya" | KMOV-TV, St Louis | ||
2006 | Photography | Hector Amezcua, Tom Knudson | "Los Piñeros: Men of the Pines" | Sacramento Bee | ||
2006 | Blog | Joshua Micah Marshall | Coverage of Social Security Issues | Talking Points Memo | ||
2005 | Book | Jason DeParle | American Dream | |||
2005 | Newspaper | Peter G. Gosselin | "The New Deal" | Los Angeles Times | ||
2005 | Magazine | Sarah Karp | "Our Next Generation" | The Chicago Reporter | ||
2005 | Broadcast | Greg Barker Greg Barker Greg Barker is director and producer of the documentary feature Sergio, which was shortlisted for a 2010 Academy Award. LA Times critic Kenneth Turan described Sergio as “a documentary of exceptional power,” and Variety said “Barker turns his biopic into a thriller...and creates riveting cinema.”A... |
"Ghosts of Rwanda" | PBS Frontline | ||
2005 | Photography | Los Angeles Times | Award for Overall Excellence | Los Angeles Times | ||
2004 | Book | David Von Drehle David Von Drehle David James Von Drehle is a writer and journalist. He has written three books and many journalistic articles in his 32 year career.-Early life:Von Drehle was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Aurora, Colorado with his family.... |
Triangle | |||
2004 | Newspaper | Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani, Tyler Marshall | "The Wal-Mart Effect" | Los Angeles Times | ||
2004 | Newspaper | 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" | New York Times | ||
2004 | Magazine | John Bowe John Bowe (author) John Bowe is the author and editor of three books: ; ; and Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times. He has also written for The New Yorker, The American Prospect, GQ, McSweeney’s and This American Life... |
"Nobodies" | The New Yorker | ||
2004 | Broadcast | Brett Shipp, Mark Smith, Kraig Kirchem | State of Denial | WFAA-TV | ||
2004 | Photography | Stanley Greene Stanley Greene Stanley Greene is a photojournalist.Greene was born to middle class parents in Harlem. Both his parents were actors. His father was a union organizer, one of the first African Americans elected as an officer in the Screen Actors Guild, and belonged to the Harlem Renaissance movement... |
"Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003" | Trolley | ||
2003 | Book | Steven R. Weisman | The Great Tax Wars | |||
2003 | Newspaper | Ellen Schultz & Theo Francis | "Valued Employees: Worker Dies, Firm Profits" | Wall Street Journal | ||
2003 | Broadcast | Ofra Bikel Ofra Bikel Ofra Bikel is a documentary filmmaker, and television producer.She was graduated from the University of Paris and the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.She was a researcher for Time, Newsweek, and ABC Television.... |
"An Ordinary Crime" | PBS Frontline | ||
2003 | Photography | Don Bartletti, Sonia Nazario Sonia Nazario Sonia Nazario has written about social issues for more than two decades, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She holds the distinctions of winning the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, and of being the youngest writer to be hired by the Wall Street Journal.She... |
"Enrique's Journey" | Los Angeles Times | ||
2002 | Book | Diane McWhorter Diane McWhorter Rebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist, commentator and author who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. Her book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General... |
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement | |||
2002 | Newspaper | David Olinger | "Seller Beware" | The Denver Post | ||
2002 | Magazine | Katherine Boo Katherine Boo Katherine Boo is an award-winning journalist known primarily for writing about America's poor and disadvantaged.-Life:A native of Washington, D.C., Boo graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and began her career in journalism with editorial positions at Washington's City Paper and then the... |
"After Welfare" | The New Yorker | ||
2002 | Broadcast | Tia Lessin Tia Lessin Tia Lessin is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. Tia is the director and producer of Trouble the Water , and producer of several of Michael Moore's films including Capitalism: A Love Story, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine.-Career:... |
"Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan" | Oxygen Network/WITNESS.org | ||
2002 | Photography | Mia Song | "Poisoned Children: The Legacy of Lead" | The Star-Ledger | ||
2001 | Book | Jack Metzgar | Striking Steel | |||
2001 | Newspaper | Ellen Schultz | selected articles on pension cuts | Wall Street Journal | ||
2001 | Magazine | Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein Aaron Bernstein Aaron David Bernstein was a German Jewish scientist, author and reformer.-Biography:His translation of the Song of Songs and his publication of Young Germany established his reputation as a writer among the literary critics of Berlin... , Gail Edmondson |
"Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating" | Business Week | ||
2001 | Broadcast | Stacy Abramson, Dave Isay | "Witness to an Execution" | NPR's All Things Considered | ||
2001 | Broadcast | Belle Adler, Brad White | "American Dream, American Nightmare" | A&E | ||
2000 | Book | Katherine S. Newman | No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City | |||
2000 | Newspaper | Maya Bell | "Why Children Kill" | The Orlando Sentinel | ||
2000 | Magazine | Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich -Early life:Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town."... |
"Nickle-and-Dimed" | Harper's Magazine | ||
2000 | Broadcast | Brian Lamb Brian Lamb Brian Patrick Lamb is the founder and chief executive officer of C-SPAN, a television network dedicated to coverage of government proceedings and public affairs. Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, Lamb earned a degree from Purdue University before joining the United States Navy... |
For television in the public interest | C-SPAN | ||
1998 | Book | Taylor Branch Taylor Branch Taylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the history of the American civil rights movement... |
Pillar of Fire | |||
1998 | Newspaper | Jerry Mitchell Jerry Mitchell Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer.-Early life and education:Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell later moved to St. Louis where he pursued his acting, dancing and directing career in theatre. He graduated from the Fine Arts college at Webster University in St. Louis. ... |
"The Preacher and the Klansman" & other investigative reporting on the KKK | The Clarion-Ledger | ||
1998 | Magazine | Donald 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 Steele |
"What Corporate Welfare Costs You" | Time Magazine | ||
1997 | Book | Robert Kuttner Robert Kuttner Robert Kuttner is an American journalist and writer. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as "an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement... |
Everything for Sale | |||
1997 | Newspaper | Jason DeParle | "Learning Poverty Firsthand" & other stories of welfare reform | The New York Times | ||
1997 | Magazine | 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 Unwanted" | The New Yorker | ||
1997 | Broadcast | Ed Bradley Ed Bradley Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. was an American journalist, best known for twenty-six years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes... |
"Town Under Siege" | Ed Bradley on Assignment, CBS News | ||
1996 | Book | William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard.... |
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor | |||
1996 | Newspaper | Rita Giordano & Alfred Lubrano | "Passyunk Homes: Welfare" | The Philadelphia Inquirer | ||
1996 | Magazine | Charles Bowden Charles Bowden Charles Bowden is an American non-fiction author, journalist, and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest... |
"While You We re Sleeping" | Harper's Magazine | ||
1996 | Broadcast | Grace Kahng & Stone Phillips Stone Phillips Stone Stockton Phillips is an American television reporter and correspondent. He is the former co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a newsmagazine TV show. He also has worked as a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today and as a substitute moderator on Meet the Press. He is known for his clear... |
"Toy Story" | Dateline, NBC | ||
1996 | Broadcast | David Isay, LeAlan Jones LeAlan Jones LeAlan Marvin Jones is an American journalist and the Green Party's 2010 nominee for United States Senate from Illinois. Jones lives in Chicago's Auburn/Gresham Community.Jones' radio documentaries have received critical acclaim and numerous awards... , Lloyd Newman |
"Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" | NPR's All Things Considered | ||
1995 | Book | Fox Butterfield Fox Butterfield Fox Butterfield is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career reporting for The New York Times.... |
All God | |||
1995 | Book | Nelson Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy... |
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention) | |||
1995 | Newspaper | Chris Kelley | for the series "Whither the Cities?" | The Dallas Morning News | ||
1995 | Magazine | Eric Schlosser Eric Schlosser Eric Schlosser is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew On This.- Personal History :... |
"In the Strawberry Fields" | The Atlantic Monthly | ||
1995 | Broadcast | Hedrick Smith Hedrick Smith Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter and editor for The New York Times, an Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent for the PBS show Frontline, and author of several books.... |
"Across the River" | WETA-TV | ||
1994 | Book | James Traub James Traub James Traub, born in 1954, is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has also written for The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review and Foreign Affairs... |
City on a Hill: Testing the American D ream at City College | |||
1994 | Newspaper | Jim Morris | for the series "Worked to Death" | Houston Chronicle | ||
1994 | Magazine | Aaron Bernstein Aaron Bernstein Aaron David Bernstein was a German Jewish scientist, author and reformer.-Biography:His translation of the Song of Songs and his publication of Young Germany established his reputation as a writer among the literary critics of Berlin... |
"Inequality" and "Why America Needs Unions" | Business Week | ||
1994 | Broadcast | Andrew Tkach | "Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today" | ABC News, "Turning Point" | ||
1993 | Book | William Chafe William Chafe William Chafe is an American Historian, and currently the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University in Durham, NC. Professor Chafe received his PhD from Columbia University in 1971, and is the author of numerous notable historical texts on United States history. Chafe's research... |
Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism | |||
1993 | Newspaper | 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... |
for the series T"he Plutonium Experiment" | The Albuquerque Tribune | ||
1993 | Magazine | Team: Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson Mike Hudson Michael Hudson is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League.-Playing career:... , Rita Henley Jensen, Barry Yeoman |
"Poverty, Inc." | Southern Exposure | ||
1993 | Broadcast | Ofra Bikel Ofra Bikel Ofra Bikel is a documentary filmmaker, and television producer.She was graduated from the University of Paris and the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.She was a researcher for Time, Newsweek, and ABC Television.... |
"Innocence Lost: The Verdict" | FRONTLINE, WGBH-TV | ||
1992 | Book | Ray Marshall Ray Marshall Freddie Ray Marshall is the Professor Emeritus of the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.... & Marc Tucker Marc Tucker Marc S. Tucker is the president and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy. He is an internationally recognized expert on education reform and a leader in benchmarking the policies and practices of the countries with the best education systems in the world.Tucker recently... |
Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations | |||
1992 | Newspaper | Nancy Stancill | for the series "Slaves to the Sale" | Houston Chronicle | ||
1992 | Magazine | Jonathan Schlefer | "What Price Economic Growth?" | The Atlantic Monthly | ||
1992 | Broadcast | John McChesney | "Morning Edition" - U.S. Manufacturing Series | National Public Radio | ||
1992 | Broadcast | Brian Ross Brian Ross (journalist) Brian Elliot Ross is an American investigative correspondent for ABC News. He has been with ABC News since July 1994. From 1974 until 1994, Ross was a correspondent for NBC News.-Major scoops:... , Rhonda Schwartz |
Dateline: Wal-Mart\'s Buy American | NBC-TV | ||
1991 | Book | Nicholas Lemann Nicholas Lemann Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.Lemann is from New Orleans and he graduated from Harvard University in 1976, but has never attended a school of journalism. He is a journalist, editor, and author... |
The Promised Land | |||
1991 | Newspaper | 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 |
for the series "America: What Went Wrong?" | The Philadelphia Inquirer | ||
1991 | Magazine | Laurie Udesky | "Punishing the Poor" | Southern Exposure | ||
1991 | Broadcast | California Working Group | "This Far By Faith" | |||
1991 | Broadcast | Gary Covino | "David Duke: An Investigative Report" | SOUNDPRINT | ||
1990 | Book | Andrew Revkin Andrew Revkin Andrew C. Revkin is a journalist and author who has spent a quarter of a century covering subjects ranging from the assault on the Amazon to the Asian tsunami, from the troubled relationship of science and politics to climate change at the North Pole. From 1995 through 2009, he covered the... |
The Burning Season | |||
1990 | Newspaper | The Detroit Free Press | for the series "Workers at Risk" | The Detroit Free Press | ||
1990 | Magazine | Frank Clancy | "Healing the Delta andBurnout in L.A." | American Health Magazine | ||
1990 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman | "Medical Costs: A Dangerous Diagnosis" | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | ||
1990 | Broadcast | Charlayne Hunter-Gault Charlayne Hunter-Gault Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an American journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting Service.... |
"Through the Safety Net" | MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour | ||
1989 | Book | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | |||
1989 | Newspaper | William H. Freivogel, Margaret Wolf Freivogel | series on "The Shift on Civil Rights" | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | ||
1989 | Magazine | Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler is an author of works of creative nonfiction.A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz , Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies... |
"A Grand Experiment" | The New Yorker | ||
1989 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman | "Home, Street, Home" | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | ||
1989 | Broadcast | Jonathan Kwitny Jonathan Kwitny Jonathan Kwitny was a Jewish American writer and investigative journalist. He received the University of Missouri School of Journalism's honor medal for career achievement. His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J... |
"The Kwitny Report" | WNYC/PBS | ||
1988 | Book | Neil Sheehan Neil Sheehan Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series in the Times revealed a secret U.S. Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and resulted in government... |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam A Bright Shining Lie A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter who covered the Vietnam War. It is about retired U.S... |
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1988 | Newspaper | Anchorage Daily News | "A People in Peril" | Anchorage Daily News | ||
1988 | Magazine | 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... |
"The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' " | Los Angeles Times Magazine | ||
1988 | Broadcast | Marilyn V. DeAngelis | "Child Care: Everybody's Baby" | WLV I-TV56, Boston, MA | ||
1988 | Broadcast | National Public Radio, News & Information Division | In recognition of far-reaching and creative news coverage | "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition", "Weekend Edition" | ||
1987 | Book | Raymond Bonner Raymond Bonner Raymond Bonner has been an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. He has also been a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributed to The New York Review of Books... |
Waltzing With a Dictator | |||
1987 | Newspaper | "The Unfinished Dream" | The Journal (Lorain Ohio) | |||
1987 | Magazine | Jerry Adler Jerry Adler Jerry Adler is an American theatre director, production supervisor and a television and film actor.Adler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Pauline and Philip Adler, who was a general manager of the Group Theatre... |
"Every Parent's Nightmare" | Newsweek | ||
1987 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman, Margie Manning | "The High Cost of Growing Old," "Truth or Consequences" | KMOX Radio, CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO | ||
1987 | Broadcast | Public Affairs Television, Inc. | "In Search of the Constitution" | |||
1986 | Book | Robert S. McNamara | "Blundering Into Disaster" | |||
1986 | Newspaper | Henry Weinstein, Thomas H. Maugh II, Dan Morain | for the series "Drug Testing on the Job" | Los Angeles Times | ||
1986 | Magazine | Conor Cruise O'Brien Conor Cruise O'Brien Conor Cruise O'Brien often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish politician, writer, historian and academic. Although his opinion on the role of Britain in Northern Ireland changed over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, he always acknowledge values of, as he saw, the two irreconcilable traditions... |
"God and Man in Nicaragua" | Atlantic Monthly | ||
1986 | Broadcast | CBS Reports | "The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America" | CBS-TV | ||
1986 | Broadcast | William Drummond William J. Drummond William Joe Drummond is an American journalist. He teaches at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.... |
"Vale of Tears: The Legacy of Silicon Valley" | National Public Radio | ||
1985 | Book | Joseph Lelyveld Joseph Lelyveld Joseph Lelyveld was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.In all, Lelyveld worked at... |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | |||
1985 | Newspaper | Series Writers | "The American Millstone" | Chicago Tribune | ||
1985 | Magazine | Daniel Ford Daniel Ford Daniel Ford is an American journalist, novelist, and historian. The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he attended public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, graduating in 1950 from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire Daniel Ford... |
"The Button" | The New Yorker | ||
1985 | Broadcast | William Peters William Peters (journalist) William Ernest Peters Jr. was an award-winning American journalist and documentary filmmaker who frequently covered race relations in the United States.... |
"A Class Divided" | Yale University Films; FRONTLINE, WGBH, Boston, MA | ||
1985 | Broadcast | Jane Elliott Jane Elliott Jane Elliott is an American teacher and anti-racism activist. She created the famous “blue-eyed/brown-eyed” exercise, first done with grade school children in the 1960s, and which later became the basis for her career in diversity training.-Origin of the idea:While there are variations of the... |
"A Class Divided" (Honorary Award) | Yale University Films, FRONTLINE, WGBH, Boston, MA | ||
1984 | Book | Strobe Talbott Strobe Talbott Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001.-Early life:Born in Dayton, Ohio... |
Deadly Gambits | |||
1984 | Newspaper | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | "Freedom Summer: A Generation Later" | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | ||
1984 | Magazine | Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers' Award | "The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover" | The Nation | ||
1984 | Magazine | Jacqueline Sharkey | "The Tug of War" | Common Cause Magazine | ||
1984 | Broadcast | KMOL-TV, San Antonio, TX | "Valley of the Shadow of Life" | KMOL-TV | ||
1984 | Broadcast | KMOX Radio | "Series on Child Welfare" | KMOX Radio, CBS affiliates, St. Louis, MO | ||
1983 | Book | Seymour M. Hersh | The Price of Power | |||
1983 | Newspaper | Patrick Owens & Bob Wyrick | "The Disability Nightmare" | Newsday | ||
1983 | Magazine | Carl Sagan Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books... |
"Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications" | Foreign Affairs | ||
1983 | Broadcast | Leslie Cockburn Leslie Cockburn Leslie Corkill Redlich Cockburn is an American writer and filmmaker who has covered a wide variety of international stories in almost every part of the globe.-Early life and career:... |
"The Pentagon Underground" | Our Times with Bill Moyers, CBS News | ||
1982 | Book | Jonathan Schell Jonathan Schell Jonathan Edward Schell is an author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily deals with nuclear weapons.-Career:His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and TomDispatch... |
The Fate of the Earth | |||
1982 | Newspaper | Rita Ciolli | for the series "The Island Trees Case" | Newsday | ||
1982 | Magazine | Elizabeth Drew Elizabeth Drew Elizabeth Drew is an American political journalist and author.- Biography :A graduate of Wellesley College, she was Washington correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker... |
"Politics and Money" | The New Yorker | ||
1982 | Broadcast | Marc Cooper Marc Cooper Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, journalism professor and blogger. He is currently a contributing editor to The Nation. He wrote the popular "Dissonance" column for LA Weekly from 2001 until November 2008... & Tim Frasca |
"El Salvador: The Elections" | Pacifica Radio News | ||
1982 | Broadcast | Judy Reemtsma | "People Like Us" | CBS News | ||
1981 | Book | Jacobo Timerman Jacobo Timerman Jacobo Timerman was an Argentine publisher, journalist, and author who was persecuted and honored for confronting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War... |
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number | |||
1981 | Newspaper | The Atlanta Constitution | for the series "Black and Poor in Atlanta" | The Atlanta Constitution | ||
1981 | Magazine | The Angolite | "Louisiana Death Watch" | |||
1981 | Broadcast | Nina Totenberg Nina Totenberg Nina Totenberg is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition... |
"All Things Considered: Voting Rights Act" | National Public Radio | ||
1981 | Broadcast | CBS Reports | "The Defense of the United States" | CBS News | ||
1980 | Book | Penny Lernoux Penny Lernoux Penny Lernoux was an American journalist and author.Lernoux was born into a comfortable Roman Catholic family in California and excelled in school... |
Cry of the People | |||
1980 | Newspaper | The Miami Herald | for a series on police brutality | The Miami Herald | ||
1980 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers' Journal | "Campaign Report #3" | WNET/13 | ||
1980 | Broadcast | MacNeil-Lehrer Report | Special award for continued excellence in television journalism | |||
1979 | Book | William Shawcross William Shawcross William Hartley Hume Shawcross, CVO is a British writer and commentator.-Career:Shawcross was educated at St. Aubyns Preparatory School, Rottingdean, Eton College and University College, Oxford. He attended St. Martin's Art School to study sculpture after leaving Oxford. He worked as a journalist... |
"Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia" | |||
1979 | Newspaper | Deidre Murphy | for a series on poverty | Rochester Democrat & Chronicle | ||
1979 | Magazine | Michael H. Brown | "Love Canal and the Poisoning of America" | The Atlantic Monthly | ||
1979 | Broadcast | Steve Singer, Tom Priestley Tom Priestley Tom Priestley is a film and sound editor whose career spans 1961 to 1990. His credits include:*Deliverance*Jubilee*Exorcist II: The Heretic*1984*White Mischief*The Return of the Pink Panther*The Great Gatsby... |
The Killing Ground | ABC-TV News Closeup | ||
1979 | Broadcast | Carol Colman | "Women at Work" | WRFM-New York | ||
1978 | Book | Charles E. Silberman Charles E. Silberman Charles Eliot Silberman was an American journalist and author.Silberman was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After war service in the Pacific, he gained a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University in 1946 and undertook graduate study their... |
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice | |||
1978 | Newspaper | Michael Flannery & Bruce Ingersoll | for a series on the working wounded | Chicago Sun Times | ||
1978 | Newspaper | I. F. Stone I. F. Stone Isidor Feinstein Stone was an iconoclastic American investigative journalist. He is best remembered for his self-published newsletter, I. F... |
Special Award | |||
1978 | Magazine | Tracy Kidder Tracy Kidder John Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation... |
"Soldiers of Misfortune" | The Atlantic Monthly | ||
1978 | Broadcast | Abby Mann Abby Mann Abby Mann was an American film writer and producer.-Life and career:Born as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama... |
"King" | Abby Mann/Filmway/NBC | ||
1977 | Book | Philip Caputo Philip Caputo Philip Caputo is an American author and journalist. He is best-known for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War.... |
A Rumor of War | |||
1977 | Newspaper | Stan Swofford | for a series on the "Wilmington 10" | Greensboro (NC) Daily News | ||
1977 | Magazine | Eliot Marshall Eliot Marshall Eliot Andrew Marshall is an American mixed martial artist. He was a cast member on SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir.-The Ultimate Fighter:... |
"Anatomy of Health Care Costs" | The New Republic | ||
1977 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers Bill Moyers Bill Moyers is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news commentator on television for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public... |
"The Fire Next Door" | |||
1977 | Broadcast | ABC Television Network | "Roots" (special award) | ABC-TV | ||
1976 | Book | Richard Kluger Richard Kluger Richard Kluger worked as a journalist before becoming an accomplished Pulitzer Prize-winning author and book publisher.-Journalism:... |
Simple Justice | |||
1976 | Newspaper | John Seigenthaler John Seigenthaler John Lawrence Seigenthaler is an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He is known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights.... |
for courage in publishing | The Tennessean | ||
1976 | Magazine | Guy Neal Williams | "The Mushroom Pickers" | Philadelphia Magazine | ||
1976 | Broadcast | Paul Leaf | "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys" | |||
1975 | Book | E. J. Kahn, Jr. | The China Hands | |||
1975 | Newspaper | William S. Randall & Stephen D. Solomon | investigative reporting | Philadelphia Inquirer | ||
1975 | Magazine | Susan Sheehan Susan Sheehan Susan Sheehan , is an American writer.Born in Vienna, Austria, she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1983 for her book Is There No Place on Earth for Me?. The book details the experiences of a young New York woman diagnosed with schizophrenia... |
"A Welfare Mother" | The New Yorker | ||
1975 | Broadcast | CBS Television Network | "Fear on Trial" | CBS-TV | ||
1974 | Book | Richard Jackson Barnet & Ronald E. Muller | Global Reach | |||
1974 | Book | Noel Mostert | Supership | |||
1974 | Newspaper | The Boston Globe | coverage of school integration crisis | The Boston Globe | ||
1974 | Newspaper | Seymour M. Hersh | articles on the C.I.A. | The New York Times | ||
1974 | Broadcast | CBS Television Network | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman... |
CBS-TV | ||
1974 | Broadcast | WNET/13 | Special Award for outstanding programming | WNET | ||
1973 | Book | Jervis Anderson | A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait | |||
1973 | Book | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | The Imperial Presidency | |||
1973 | Book | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Special Award | |||
1973 | Newspaper | 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 |
investigative reporting | The Philadelphia Inquirer | ||
1973 | Magazine | Richard L. Strout | for his columns, signed TRB | The New Republic | ||
1973 | Magazine | Paul Brodeur Paul Brodeur Paul Brodeur is an investigative science writer and author, whose writings have appeared in The New Yorker, where he began as a staff writer in 1958. He lives in Cape Cod. For nearly two decades he researched and wrote about the health hazards of asbestos... |
"Annals of Industry: Casualties of the Workplace" | The New Yorker | ||
1973 | Broadcast | Paul Altmeyer | "Freedom & Security: The Uncertain Balance" | Westinghouse Broadcasting Company | ||
1972 | Book | Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake | |||
1972 | Newspaper | Carl Bernstein Carl Bernstein Carl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist who, at The Washington Post, teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations, the indictment of a vast number of... & Robert Woodward |
the Watergate investigation | The Washington Post | ||
1972 | Magazine | Frank J. Donner & Eugene Cerruti | "The Grand Jury Network" | The Nation | ||
1972 | Broadcast | Lucy Jarvis | "What Price Health?" | NBC-TV | ||
1971 | Book | Morton Mintz Morton Mintz Morton Mintz is an investigative journalist who in his early years reported for two St. Louis, Missouri newspapers, the Star-Times and the Globe-Democrat; and then, most notably The Washington Post . He exposed such scandals as thalidomide and the Dalkon Shield... & Jerry S. Cohen |
America Inc. | |||
1971 | Newspaper | Alfred Friendly Alfred Friendly Alfred Friendly was an American journalist, editor and writer for the Washington Post. He began his career as a reporter with the Post in 1939 and became Managing Editor in 1955. In 1967 he covered the Mideast War for the Post in a series of articles for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for... |
"Victims of the Great American Red Hunt" | The Washington Post | ||
1971 | Newspaper | Neil Sheehan Neil Sheehan Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series in the Times revealed a secret U.S. Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and resulted in government... |
"The Pentagon Papers" | The New York Times | ||
1971 | Magazine | Carolyn See Carolyn See Carolyn See is the author of nine books, including the memoir, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America, an advice book on writing, Making a Literary Life, and the novels There Will Never Be Another You and The Handyman.... , Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles Robert Coles Martin Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University.-Life and career:... , Richard Todd Richard Todd Richard Todd OBE was an Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier.-Early life:Richard Todd was born as Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Andrew William Palethorpe Todd, was an Irish physician and an international Irish rugby player who gained three caps for... |
"Work in America" | The Atlantic Monthly | ||
1971 | Broadcast | Martin Carr Martin Carr Martin Carr , is a British musician and writer who was the chief songwriter and lead guitarist with the British band, The Boo Radleys.- Life and career :... |
"This Child Is Rated X" | NBC-TV | ||
1970 | Book | Ramsey Clark Ramsey Clark William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson... |
Crime in America | |||
1970 | Newspaper | John Kifner John Kifner John Kifner was a reporte for the The New York Times. After serving as an editor on his Williams College student newspaper, The Williams Record, Kifner joined The New York Times as a copy boy in 1963 and soughtt reporting assignments... |
series on the "Kent State tragedy" | The New York Times | ||
1970 | Magazine | Christopher H. Pyle | articles on "Army surveillance of political activity" | The Washington Monthly | ||
1970 | Broadcast | Ronn Bonn & Walter Cronkite Walter Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll... |
"Can the World Be Saved" | CBS News | ||
1969 | Book | Congressman Richard McCarthy Richard D. McCarthy Richard Dean McCarthy was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, also known as Richard Max McCarthy or Max McCarthy.-Life:He served in the United States Navy from November 1945 until August 1946, and in the United States Army from November... |
The Ultimate Folly | |||
1969 | Newspaper | William J. Eaton William J. Eaton William J. Eaton was an American journalist.He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his Chicago Daily News coverage of the confirmation battle over Clement Haynsworth, an unsuccessful Richard Nixon nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States... |
"The Appearance of Impropriety" | Chicago Daily News | ||
1969 | Magazine | Daniel Lang | "Casualties of War" | The New Yorker | ||
1969 | Broadcast | Fred Freed | "Who Killed Lake Erie?" | NBC-TV | ||
1968 | Book | George R. Stewart George R. Stewart George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley... |
Not So Rich As You Think | |||
1968 | Newspaper | James K. Batten & Dwayne Walls | "The People Left Behind" | Charlotte Observer | ||
1968 | Magazine | Charles Remsberg, Bonnie Remsberg | "America's Hungry Families" | Good Housekeeping | ||
1968 | Broadcast | Bill Osterhous & Dick Huber | "One Nation, Indivisible" | Westinghouse Broadcasting Company | ||
1967 | Book | Ronald Steel Ronald Steel Ronald Lewis Steel is an award-winning American writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippman.-Biography:Ronald Steel was born in 1931 in Morris, Illinois outside of Chicago... |
Pax Americana | |||
1967 | Book | Alan F. Westin Alan Westin Alan F. Westin is Professor of Public Law & Government Emeritus, Columbia University, former publisher of Privacy & American Business, and former President of the Center for Social & Legal Research.... |
Privacy and Freedom | |||
1967 | Newspaper | Howard James | series on the "Crisis in the Courts" | The Christian Science Monitor | ||
1967 | Broadcast | Jay L. McMullen | "The Tenement" | CBS-TV News | ||
1967 | Broadcast | Harold Mayer & Lynne Rhodes Mayer, producer and writer | "The Way It Is" | National Educational Television Network (Honorable Mention) | ||
1966 | Book | Joseph P. Lyford | The Airtight Cage | |||
1966 | Newspaper | Harrison E. Salisbury | reporting from North Vietnam (special award) | The New York Times | ||
1966 | Newspaper | Robert Keveney & Douglas Walker Douglas Walker Douglas Walker , commonly known as Dougie Walker, is a former Scottish sprinter.Educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, in 1998 he became European champion in both 200 metres and 4x100m relay. With 31.56s he is the European record holder in 300 metres, although this distance is rarely run... |
a series on right-wing groups | Dayton Daily News | ||
1966 | Magazine | Richard Harris Richard Harris Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer.... |
"Medicare" | The New Yorker | ||
1966 | Broadcast | William C. Jersey | "A Time for Burning" | National Educational Television Network | ||
1965 | Book | Kenneth B. Clark | Dark Ghetto | |||
1965 | Magazine | Theodore Draper Theodore Draper Theodore H. "Ted" Draper was an American historian and political writer. Draper is best known for the 14 books which he completed during his life, including work regarded as seminal on the formative period of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution, and the Iran-Contra Affair... |
"The Dominican Crisis - A Case Study in American Policy" | Commentary | ||
1964 | Book | Dr. James W. Silver | Mississippi: The Closed Society | |||
1964 | Book | Bernard D. Nossiter | The Mythmakers | |||
1964 | Newspaper | J. O. Emmerich | editorials on the civil rights crisis there | Enterprise Journal (McComb, MS) | ||
1964 | Magazine | J. Robert Moskin | "Challenge to Our Doctors" | Look | ||
1964 | Broadcast | Joseph Wershba Joseph Wershba Joseph Wershba was a professional journalist who joined the CBS News team in 1944, where he served as a writer, editor and correspondent. He was one of the six original producers of CBS's 60 Minutes from 1968-88.... |
"Gideon's Trumpet: The Poor Man & The Law" | CBS-TV | ||
1963 | Book | Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University... |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life | |||
1963 | Newspaper | Horance G. Davis | editorials on civil rights | Gainesville (FL) Daily Sun | ||
1963 | Magazine | Arnold Hano | "The Burned Out Americans" | Saga Magazine | ||
1963 | Broadcast | Millard Lampell Millard Lampell Millard Lampell was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s.... |
"No Hiding Place," on the East Side/West Side series | CBS-TV | ||
1962 | Book | Michael Harrington Michael Harrington Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Personal life:... |
The Other America | |||
1962 | Newspaper | Ira Harkey | editorials on the crisis at the Mississippi University | Pascagoula (MS) Chronicle | ||
1962 | Magazine | Margaret Parton | "Sometimes Life Just Happens" | Ladies Home Journal | ||
1962 | Broadcast | Warren Wallace | "Superfluous People | WCBS-TV, New York | ||
1962 | Broadcast | John Keats John Keats John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not... , George Dessart George Dessart George Baldwin Dessart is an American television producer and executive and served as national chairman of the American Cancer Society from 1996-98.... , David E. Wilson |
"Conformity" | WCAU-T V, Philadelphia | ||
1961 | Book | Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs, was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States... |
Death and Life of Great American Cities | |||
1961 | Newspaper | Patrick J. Owens | editorials on current issues | Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial | ||
1961 | Magazine | Lillian Smith Lillian Smith (author) Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit... |
"The Ordeal of Southern Women" | Redbook | ||
1961 | Broadcast | Al Wasserman, Robert Young, Charles Dorkins | "White Paper #7: Angola: Journey to a War" | NBC-TV | ||
1960 | Book | David McEntire | Residence and Race | |||
1960 | Book | William L. Shirer William L. Shirer William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany read and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years... |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a 1960 non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the general history of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945... |
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1960 | Newspaper | Sylvan Meyer | editorials on race relations | Gainesville (GA) Daily Times | ||
1960 | Magazine | Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake | "Poor, Proud and Primitive: The Lost Appalachians" | The Nation | ||
1960 | Broadcast | Walter Peters, Marshal Diskin | "Cast the First Stone" | ABC-TV | ||
1959 | Book | Harold M. Hyman | To Try Men | |||
1959 | Broadcast | Edward P. Morgan Edward P. Morgan Edward Paddock Morgan was an American journalist and writer who reported for newspapers, radio, and television media services including ABC, CBS networks, and Public Broadcasting Service Public television.... |
News broadcasts over the ABC Network | ABC-TV | ||
1959 | Broadcast | WNTA-TV, N.Y. | "PIay of the Week" programs | WNTA-TV | ||
1958 | Book | John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism... |
The Affluent Society The Affluent Society The Affluent Society is a 1958 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The book sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post-World War II America was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector, lacking social and physical infrastructure, and... |
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1958 | Newspaper | Harry L. Billings & Gretchen Billings | editorials on civil liberties and public welfare system | The People | ||
1958 | Newspaper | Ralph McGill Ralph McGill Ralph Emerson McGill , American journalist, was best known as the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959.... |
editorials defending the public school system | Atlanta Constitution | ||
1958 | Magazine | Giorgio De Santillana Giorgio de Santillana Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher of science and historian of science, and professor at MIT.... |
"Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer" | The Reporter | ||
1958 | Magazine | Harvey Swados Harvey Swados Harvey Swados was an American social critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and journalism.-Family and Early Life:... |
"Myth of the Powerful Worker" | The Nation | ||
1958 | Broadcast | Irving Gitlin | Supervision of CBS Unit One, particularly the programs "Who Killed Michael Farmer" and " P.O.W.- A Study in Survival" | CBS-TV | ||
1957 | Book | Wilma Dykeman Wilma Dykeman Wilma Dykeman Stokely was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction whose works chronicled the people and land of Appalachia.-Biography:... & James Stokely |
Neither Black Nor White | |||
1957 | Newspaper | A. M. Secrest | editorials on civil rights | Cheraw (SC) Chronicle | ||
1957 | Newspaper | Harry Ashmore Harry Ashmore Harry Scott Ashmore was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in 1957 on the school integration conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas.... |
editorials on school integration | Arkansas Gazette | ||
1957 | Broadcast | Theodore Ayres | "Face the Nation" interview with Krushchev | CBS-TV | ||
1957 | Broadcast | George A. Vicas | "Radio Beat" debates between American and Soviet scientists and educators | CBS Radio | ||
1956 | Book | Walter Gellhorn | Individual Freedom and Government Restraints | |||
1956 | Newspaper | The New York Times | editorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award) | The New York Times | ||
1956 | Newspaper | Robert H. Spiegel | series on segregation in Des Moines | Des Moines Tribune | ||
1956 | Magazine | Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935... |
"Divided South Searches Its Soul" | Life | ||
1956 | Magazine | John Fischer | "The Harm Good People Do" | Harper's Magazine | ||
1955 | Book | John Lord | National Security and Individual Freedom | |||
1955 | Newspaper | Murray Marder | articles on the government security program | Washington Post | ||
1955 | Newspaper | Ben H. Bagdikian | series on civil liberties | Providence Journal Bulletin | ||
1955 | Magazine | Robert Engler Robert Engler Robert Engler was an American professor emeritus of political science at the City University of New York and a writer of numerous essays and books on the subject... |
"Oil and Politics" | The New Republic | ||
1954 | Book | Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager was an American historian who helped define Modern liberalism in the United States for two generations through his forty books and 700 essays and reviews... |
Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent | |||
1954 | Newspaper | Daniel R. Fitzpatrick Daniel R. Fitzpatrick Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick was commonly known as "Daniel R. Fitzpatrick." He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and an editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Dispatch from 1913 to 1958.... |
editorial cartoons (special award) | St. Louis Dispatch | ||
1954 | Newspaper | Vic Reinemer | editorials on civil liberties and civil rights | Charlotte (NC) News | ||
1954 | Magazine | Charlotte Knight | "What Price Security" | Collier's | ||
1954 | Magazine | The Progressive | special issue on Senator McCarthy (special award) | The Progressive | ||
1954 | Broadcast | Eric Sevareid Eric Sevareid Arnold Eric Sevareid was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents—dubbed "Murrow's Boys"—because they were hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow.... |
"American Week," programs on civil rights issues | CBS-TV | ||
1954 | Broadcast | WNYC, New York City | public service program (special award) | WNYC | ||
1953 | Book | Theodore H. White Theodore H. White Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections.-Life and career:... |
Fire in the Ashes | |||
1953 | Newspaper | Ralph S. O | a series on civil liberties | Houston Post | ||
1953 | Magazine | Joseph Wechsberg Joseph Wechsberg Joseph Wechsberg was a Czech writer, journalist, musician, and gourmet.... |
"The Seventeenth of June" | The New Yorker | ||
1953 | Broadcast | Edward R. Murrow Edward R. Murrow Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick... |
"See It Now See It Now See It Now is an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, See It Now won four Emmy Awards and was nominated three times... " programs on civil liberties |
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1953 | Broadcast | Gerald W. Johnson Gerald W. Johnson Gerald White Johnson was a journalist, editor, essayist, historian, biographer, and novelist. Over his nearly 75 year career he was known for being "one of the most eloquent spokespersons for America’s adversary culture."... |
broadcast on civil liberties and other issues | WAAM, Baltimore | ||
1952 | Book | Herbert Block | The Herblock Book | |||
1952 | Newspaper | W. Horace Carter W. Horace Carter Walter Horace Carter was an American newspaper publisher in Tabor City, North Carolina who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his reporting on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and his editorials opposing it. Filmmaker Walt Campbell is making a documentary about Carter tentatively titled,... , Willard G. Cole, Jay Jenkins, |
articles and editorials exposing the Ku Klux Klan | North Carolina Tribune, North Carolina News and Reporter, North Carolina News and Observer | ||
1951 | Book | Alan Barth Alan Barth Alan Barth was an American journalist specializing in civil liberties, best known for his 30 year stint as an editorial writer at The Washington Post, from which he retired in 1972, and his books on historical and contemporaneous politics.... |
The Loyalty of Free Men | |||
1951 | Newspaper | Carl T. Rowan | articles on race relations in the South | Minneapolis Tribune | ||
1951 | Magazine | Arthur D. Morse Arthur D. Morse Arthur D. Morse was a World War II historian, best known for his book While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy . While there's a hefty amount of disagreement about the United States and Allied knowledge and actions during the Holocaust, this book features extensive documentation of... |
"Who's Trying to Ruin Our Schools?" | McCall's | ||
1950 | Book | John Hersey John Hersey John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage... |
The Wall | |||
1950 | Newspaper | A. H. Raskin A. H. Raskin A. H. Raskin was a labor reporter, editorial writer, and assistant editor, for The New York Times, from 1934 to 1977.... |
articles on labor | The New York Times | ||
1950 | Newspaper | Murray Kempton Murray Kempton James Murray Kempton was an influential, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.-Biography:Kempton was born in Baltimore on December 16, 1917. His mother was Sally Ambler and his father was James Branson Kempton, a stock broker... |
articles on labor in the South | New York Post | ||
1950 | Magazine | James H. Means, M.D. | "Doctors Lobby and England's Public Medicine: The Facts" | The Atlantic Monthly |