2010 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism
Maria Hinojosa
“Justice Delayed” NOW, PBS
Producer: Brenda Breslauer
Field Producer and Camera: Brian Epstein
Field Producer: Mona Iskander
For 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America’s untold stories and brought to light unsung heroes in America and abroad. As the anchor and managing editor of her own long-running weekly NPR show, Latino USA, and anchor of the Emmy Award winning talk show Maria Hinojosa: One on One from WGBH/La Plaza, Hinojosa has informed millions of Americans with stories that reflect the growing diversity of our country. As a reporter for NPR, Hinojosa told groundbreaking stories about youth and violence and immigrant communities.
Hinojosa has won top honors in American journalism including two Emmy’s, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club for best documentary for her groundbreaking Child Brides: Stolen Lives. She is the author of two books including a motherhood memoir, Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son.
Previous Honorees in Broadcast Journalism
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Year |
Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | Site | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo | "Made in LA" | POV | Go | |
| 2008 | Bill Moyers and Kathleen Hughes | Buying the War | Bill Moyers Journal | Go | |
| 2007 | Spike Lee and Sam Pollard | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/HBO | Go | |
| 2006 | Craig Cheatham, Jim Thomas, and Marty Van Housen | La Oroya | KMOV-TV, St Louis | ||
| 2005 | Greg Barker | Ghosts of Rwanda | PBS Frontline | Go | |
| 2004 | Brett Shipp, Mark Smith, and Kraig Kirchem | State of Denial | WFAA-TV | Go | |
| 2003 | Ofra Bikel | An Ordinary Crime | PBS Frontline | Go | |
| 2002 | Tia Lessin | Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan | Oxygen Network/WITNESS.org | Go | |
| 2001 | Stacy Abramson and Dave Isay | Witness to an Execution | NPR's All Things Considered | Go | |
| 2001 | Belle Adler and Brad White | American Dream, American Nightmare | A&E | Go | |
| 2000 | Brian Lamb | For television in the public interest | C-SPAN | ||
| 1997 | Ed Bradley | Town Under Siege | Ed Bradley on Assignment, CBS News | ||
| 1996 | Grace Kahng & Stone Phillips | Toy Story | Dateline, NBC | ||
| 1996 | David Isay, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman | Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse | NPR's All Things Considered | Go | |
| 1995 | Hedrick Smith | Across the River | WETA-TV | ||
| 1994 | Andrew Tkach | Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today | ABC News, "Turning Point" | ||
| 1993 | Ofra Bikel | Innocence Lost: The Verdict, | FRONTLINE, WGBH-TV | Go | |
| 1992 | John McChesney | Morning Edition - U.S. Manufacturing Series | National Public Radio | ||
| 1992 | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz | Dateline: Wal-Mart's Buy American | NBC-TV | ||
| 1991 | California Working Group | This Far By Faith | |||
| 1991 | Gary Covino | David Duke: An Investigative Report | SOUNDPRINT | ||
| 1990 | Joan Beuckman | Medical Costs: A Dangerous Diagnosis | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | ||
| 1990 | Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Through the Safety Net | MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour | ||
| 1989 | Joan Beuckman | Home, Street, Home | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | ||
| 1989 | Jonathan Kwitny | The Kwitny Report | WNYC/PBS |