2011 Hillman Prizes | Hillman Foundation

Hillman Prizes

2011 Hillman Prizes

Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. Recipients exemplify reportorial excellence, storytelling skill, and social justice impact.

E.J. Dionne, Jr.
2011 Hillman Prize for Career Achievement
Washington Post
2011 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Clover Films/FRONTLINE, WGBH
Finalists:

John Maggio & Martin Smith, “College Inc.,” FRONTLINE; Rebecca Cammisa, “Which Way Home,” HBO; Laura Sullivan and Steven Drummond, “Behind the Bail Bond System,” NPR

Mona Reeder
2011 Hillman Prize for Photojournalism
“A Surgery Gone Wrong”
Dallas Morning News
Timothy Noah
2011 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
“The Great Divergence”
Slate.com
Finalists:

John Bowe, “Bound for America,” The Nation Institute/Mother Jones; Robert Steinback, “Under Attack,” Intelligence Report/Southern Poverty Law Center; David Evans, “Profiting from Fallen Soldiers,” Bloomberg Markets

2011 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism
“Justice in the Balance”
USA Today
Finalists:

Matthew D. LaPlante, “Comprehensive coverage of veterans issues,” Salt Lake Tribune; Martin Z. Braun, Michael McDonald, Christopher Palmeri, Darrell Preston and William Selway, “Wall Street vs. Main Street,” Bloomberg; S. Heather Duncan, “Our Children’s Keepers,” The Telegraph

Isabel Wilkerson
2011 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
The Warmth of Other Suns
Random House
Finalists:

Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Simon & Schuster; Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, Cornell University; Charles Bowden, Murder City, Nation Books