2010 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
Rebecca Clarren
“The Dark Side of Dairies” High Country News
Rebecca Clarren specializes in investigative journalism with a focus on labor, agriculture and environmental health. A former associate editor of High Country News, she now freelances for magazines such as Mother Jones and Salon.com from her home in Portland, Oregon. During the past eight years, she has won eight grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to research stories like pesticide poisoning of farm workers, health effects associated with natural gas development, and the politics behind the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific evaluation of toxic chemicals. In 2009, she won an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship to research the unmitigated impacts associated with domestic development of natural gas. She is currently writing a book about the same topic.
Previous Honorees in Magazine Journalism
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Year |
Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | Site | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Nation | The New Inequality - Special Issue | The Nation | Go | |
| 2008 | Ray Ring | Death in the Energy Fields | High Country News | Go | |
| 2007 | Douglas McGray | The Invisibles | West Magazine, Los Angeles Times | Go | |
| 2006 | Dave Evans, Mike Smith, Liz Willen and Jonathan Neumann, | Big Pharma's Shameful Secret | Bloomberg Markets | ||
| 2005 | Sarah Karp | Our Next Generation | The Chicago Reporter | Go | |
| 2004 | John Bowe | Nobodies | The New Yorker | ||
| 2002 | Katherine Boo | After Welfare | The New Yorker | Go | |
| 2001 | Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein, Gail Edmondson and team | Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating | Business Week | Go | |
| 2000 | Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickle-and-Dimed | Harper's Magazine | Go | |
| 1998 | Donald Barlett & James Steele | What Corporate Welfare Costs You | Time Magazine | ||
| 1997 | William Finnegan | The Unwanted | The New Yorker | ||
| 1996 | Charles Bowden | While You We re Sleeping | Harper's Magazine | ||
| 1995 | Eric Schlosser | In the Strawberry Fields | The Atlantic Monthly | ||
| 1994 | Aaron Bernstein | Inequality andWhy America Needs Unions | Business Week | ||
| 1993 | Team: Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, and Barry Yeoman | Poverty, Inc. | Southern Exposure | ||
| 1992 | Jonathan Schlefer | What Price Economic Growth? | The Atlantic Monthly | ||
| 1991 | Laurie Udesky | Punishing the Poor | Southern Exposure | ||
| 1990 | Frank Clancy | Healing the Delta andBurnout in L.A. | American Health Magazine | ||
| 1989 | Lawrence Weschler | A Grand Experiment | The New Yorker | ||
| 1988 | Robert Scheer | The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' | Los Angeles Times Magazine | ||
| 1987 | Jerry Adler | Every Parent's Nightmare | Newsweek | ||
| 1986 | Conor Cruise O'Brien | God and Man in Nicaragua | Atlantic Monthly | ||
| 1985 | Daniel Ford | The Button | The New Yorker | ||
| 1984 | Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers' Award | The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover | The Nation | ||
| 1984 | Jacqueline Sharkey | The Tug of Wa r | Common Cause Magazine |