The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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| Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | George Barrett Award | Philippe Sands KC | 2024 George Barrett Award | ||
| 2024 | SEIU Award | Aurora Almendral | Merchants of Care | Type Investigations and Quartz | |
| 2024 | Opinion & Analysis | Michael Hiltzik | Columns by Michael Hiltzik | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2024 | Newspaper | Hannah Beckler | The Secret Terror Inside U.S. Prisons | Business Insider | |
| 2024 | Magazine | Josh Eidelson | The U.S. Workplace Power Struggle | Bloomberg Businessweek | |
| 2024 | Broadcast | Candice Nguyen | 911: Hanging on the Line | NBC Bay Area News | |
| 2024 | Book | Samuel G. Freedman | Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights | Oxford University Press | |
| 2023 | George Barrett Award | David Cole | 2023 George Barrett Award | ||
| 2023 | Web | John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald | The Rise and Fall of a Predatory Police Force | AL.com | |
| 2023 | Opinion & Analysis | Chai Dingari, Gerald Lane, Anthony Mascorro, Sean Morrow, and Brooke Shuman | The Class Room | More Perfect Union | |
| 2023 | Newspaper | Catherine Porter, Matt Apuzzo, Constant Méheut, Selam Gebrekidan | The Ransom: The Root of Haiti’s Misery | The New York Times | |
| 2023 | Broadcast | Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz, and Kelsey Desiderio | Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | MSNBC | |
| 2023 | Magazine | Ava Kofman | Endgame | ProPublica and The New Yorker | |
| 2023 | Book | Margaret A. Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners | W. W. Norton & Co. | |
| 2022 | Sol Stetin Award | Eric Foner | 2022 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2022 | Web | ProPublica staff | The Secret IRS Files | ProPublica | |
| 2022 | Newspaper | Gina Barton, Daphne Duret and Brett Murphy | “Behind the Blue Wall of Silence" | USA TODAY | |
| 2022 | Magazine | Ari Berman | Reporting on Voting Rights | Mother Jones | |
| 2022 | Broadcast | Dave Biscobing and Shawn Martin | Politically Charged | ABC15 Arizona | |
| 2022 | Book | Clint Smith | How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Little, Brown and Company | |
| 2022 | Book | Eyal Press | Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2021 | Opinion & Analysis | Jamelle Bouie | Jamelle Bouie | The New York Times | |
| 2021 | Web | Aura Bogado and Melissa Lewis | The Disappeared | Reveal | |
| 2021 | Newspaper | Margie Mason and Robin McDowell | Fruits of Labor | Associated Press | |
| 2021 | Magazine | David Dayen | Unsanitized | The American Prospect | |
| 2021 | Broadcast | Tony Plohetski | Lights. Camera. Violence. | KVUE and Austin American-Statesman | |
| 2021 | Book | Rick Perlstein | Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980) | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2021 | Book | Zachary D. Carter | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes | Random House | |
| 2020 | Web | Jennifer Gollan, Melissa Lewis | Caregivers and Takers | Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting with the Associated Press, PBS Newshour and PRX | |
| 2020 | Opinion & Analysis | Michelle Goldberg | Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times | |
| 2020 | Newspaper | Samantha Melamed, Dylan Purcell, Jessica Griffin | The Probation Trap | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 2020 | Magazine | Pamela Colloff | False Witness | ProPublica & New York Times Magazine | |
| 2020 | Book | Rachel Louise Snyder | No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us | Bloomsbury | |
| 2020 | Broadcast | David Biscobing, Gerard Watson, Shawn Martin (and team) | Abuse of Force | ABC15 / KNXV | |
| 2019 | Sol Stetin Award | Joshua B. Freeman | 2019 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2019 | Book | Anna Clark | The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy | Metropolitan Books | |
| 2019 | Magazine | Hannah Dreier | Trapped in Gangland | ProPublica, New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New York Times Magazine | |
| 2019 | Newspaper | Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot | Perversion of Justice | Miami Herald | |
| 2019 | Broadcast | Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley (and team) | Torn Apart | NBC News and MSNBC | |
| 2019 | Web | Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson | “Ambushed at Home” | Reuters | |
| 2019 | Opinion & Analysis | Adam Serwer | Adam Serwer | The Atlantic | |
| 2018 | George Barrett Award | Mary Joyce Carlson | 2018 George Barrett Award | ||
| 2018 | Book | Richard Rothstein | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Liveright/W.W. Norton | |
| 2018 | Magazine | Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal | “The Uncounted” | New York Times Magazine | |
| 2018 | Newspaper | Brett Murphy | “Rigged: Forced into debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.” | USA TODAY Network | |
| 2018 | Broadcast | Bill Whitaker, Ira Rosen, Sam Hornblower, Robert Zimet, Scott Higham, and Lenny Bernstein | “The Whistleblower” & “Too Big to Prosecute” | CBS News 60 Minutes and The Washington Post | |
| 2018 | Web | Almudena Toral, Maye Primera, Mauricio Rodriguez, Andrea Patiño, Juanje Gomez, Oscar Martinez, Carlos Martinez, Fred Ramos | “From migrants to refugees: the new plight of Central Americans” | Univision News/El Faro | |
| 2018 | Opinion & Analysis | Dahlia Lithwick | Dahlia Lithwick | Slate | |
| 2017 | George Barrett Award | Penda Hair | 2017 George Barrett Award | ||
| 2017 | Opinion & Analysis | Adele M. Stan | Adele M. Stan | The American Prospect | |
| 2017 | Web | Jamie Kalven | “Code of Silence” | The Intercept | |
| 2017 | Broadcast | Brendan Keefe | “Dying For Help: Fixing The Nation's Emergency Response System” | WXIA-TV, Atlanta | |
| 2017 | Magazine | Nikole Hannah-Jones | “Choosing a School For My Daughter in a Segregated City” | New York Times Magazine | |
| 2017 | Newspaper | David Fahrenthold | For reporting on the Trump Foundation and 2016 presidential election | The Washington Post | |
| 2017 | Book | Matthew Desmond | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Crown | |
| 2016 | Sol Stetin Award | Alice Kessler-Harris | 2016 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2016 | Web | Curt Guyette | The Flint Water Crisis | ACLU of Michigan Democracy Watch Blog | |
| 2016 | Opinion & Analysis | Rebecca Traister | Rebecca Traister | New York Magazine, Elle | |
| 2016 | Newspaper | Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, Tom Robbins | “Cellblock Justice” | The New York Times and the Marshall Project | |
| 2016 | Magazine | Melissa del Bosque | “Death on Sevenmile Road” | Texas Observer/The Investigative Fund | |
| 2016 | Broadcast | Melissa Harris-Perry | Melissa Harris-Perry | MSNBC (2012-2016) | |
| 2016 | Book | Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2015 | George Barrett Award | Bryan Stevenson | 2015 George Barrett Award | ||
| 2015 | Web | Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman | “The Echo Chamber” | Reuters | |
| 2015 | Opinion & Analysis | Jelani Cobb | Jelani Cobb for The New Yorker | The New Yorker | |
| 2015 | Newspaper | Bob Ortega, Daniel Gonzalez, Michael Kiefer, Daniel Nowicki, Michael Chow, David Wallace, Nick Oza, Erin Kelly, Mariana Dale, Stuart Warner, Cherrill Crosby | “Pipeline of Children” and “Revisiting the Pipeline” | The Arizona Republic | |
| 2015 | Magazine | John H. Richardson | “The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” | Esquire | |
| 2015 | Broadcast | Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, Bryan Staples | Policing for Profit | WTVF-TV, NewsChannel 5 | |
| 2015 | Book | Edward E. Baptist | The Half Has Never Been Told | Basic Books | |
| 2014 | Sol Stetin Award | Leon Fink | 2014 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2014 | Opinion & Analysis | Digby aka Heather Parton | Hullabaloo | ||
| 2014 | Web | Craig Welch & Steve Ringman | “Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn” | The Seattle Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | |
| 2014 | Broadcast | Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, Saundra Young | “Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports” | CNN | |
| 2014 | Magazine | Jonathan Cohn | “The Hell of American Daycare” | The New Republic | |
| 2014 | Newspaper | Pat Beall | “Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain” | The Palm Beach Post | |
| 2014 | Book | Ira Katznelson | Fear Itself | Liveright Publishing Corp | |
| 2013 | Sol Stetin Award | Marcus Rediker | 2013 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2013 | Web | Alison Young and Peter Eisler | “Ghost Factories” | USA TODAY | |
| 2013 | Photography | Rick Loomis | “Beyond 7 Billion” | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2013 | Opinion & Analysis | Andrew Sullivan | Andrew Sullivan | The Dish | |
| 2013 | Newspaper | Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne | “Playing with Fire” | Chicago Tribune | |
| 2013 | Magazine | Shane Bauer | “No Way Out: A Special Report on Solitary Confinement” | Mother Jones/ The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute | |
| 2013 | Broadcast | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Mosk and Cindy Galli | “Brian Ross Investigates: Tragedy In Bangladesh” | Nightline, World News and ABCNews.com | |
| 2013 | Book | Tracie McMillan | The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | Scribner | |
| 2012 | Sol Stetin Award | Nelson Lichtenstein | 2012 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2012 | Officers’ Award | Tom Morello | Tom Morello | ||
| 2012 | Book | Frank Bardacke | Trampling Out the Vintage | Verso | |
| 2012 | Opinion & Analysis | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic | |
| 2012 | Newspaper | Heather Vogell, Alan Judd, John Perry | "The Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal" | The Atlanta Journal Constitution | |
| 2012 | Magazine | Sarah Stillman | "The Invisible Army" | The New Yorker | |
| 2012 | Photography | Katie Falkenberg | "A Lasting Toll" | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2012 | Broadcast | Yoav Potash | "Crime After Crime" | The Oprah Winfrey Network | |
| 2012 | Web | Seth Freed Wessler | "Thousands of Kids Lost From Parents in U.S Deportation System" | Colorlines.com | |
| 2011 | Sol Stetin Award | Melvyn Dubofsky | 2011 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2011 | E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Career Achievement | Washington Post | ||
| 2011 | Blog | Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Jessica Valenti, Courtney E. Martin, Vanessa Valenti, Chloe Angyal & Miriam Zoila Pérez | Feministing | Feministing.com | |
| 2011 | Broadcast | Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran | The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan | Clover Films/FRONTLINE, WGBH | |
| 2011 | Photography | Mona Reeder | A Surgery Gone Wrong | Dallas Morning News | |
| 2011 | Magazine | Tim Noah | The Great Divergence | Slate.com | |
| 2011 | Newspaper | Brad Heath & Kevin McCoy | Justice in the Balance | USA Today | |
| 2011 | Book | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns | Random House | |
| 2010 | Sol Stetin Award | Dorothy Sue Cobble | 2010 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2010 | Blog | Ezra Klein | Ezra Klein | The Washington Post | |
| 2010 | Blog | Jonathan Cohn | The Treatment | New Republic | |
| 2010 | Photography | Craig F. Walker | Ian Fisher: American Soldier | The Denver Post | |
| 2010 | Photography | Joe Amon, Hyoung Chang, Andy Cross, Judy DeHaas, Reza Marvashti, RJ Sangosti & Craig F. Walker | Below the Line: Childhood Poverty in Colorado | The Denver Post | |
| 2010 | Broadcast | Maria Hinojosa | Justice Delayed | NOW, PBS | |
| 2010 | Magazine | Rebecca Clarren | The Dark Side of Dairies | High Country News | |
| 2010 | Newspaper | Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry, Alison Fitzgerald & Craig Torres | The Fight for Transparency | Bloomberg News | |
| 2010 | Book | Nick Reding | Methland | Bloomsbury | |
| 2009 | Sol Stetin Award | James Green | 2009 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2009 | Blog | Marcy Wheeler | Emptywheel | Firedoglake.com | |
| 2009 | Photography | Carol Guzy | "Birth and Death" | The Washington Post | |
| 2009 | Broadcast | Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo | "Made in LA" | POV | |
| 2009 | Magazine | The Nation | The New Inequality - Special Issue | The Nation | |
| 2009 | Newspaper | Nina Bernstein | "Deaths in Immigrant Detention" | The New York Times | |
| 2009 | Steven Greenhouse | The Big Squeeze | Knopf | ||
| 2009 | Book | Jane Mayer | The Dark Side | Doubleday | |
| 2008 | Sol Stetin Award | David Brody | 2008 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2008 | Officers’ Award | Writers Guild of America | Writers Guild of America | ||
| 2008 | Blog | Faiz Shakir and Amanda Terkel | Think Progress: A Project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund | Center for American Progess | |
| 2008 | Photography | Luis Sinco | The Marlboro Marine: Two lives blurred together by a photo | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2008 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers and Kathleen Hughes | Buying the War | Bill Moyers Journal | |
| 2008 | Magazine | Ray Ring | Death in the Energy Fields | High Country News | |
| 2008 | Newspaper | Charles Duhigg | Golden Opportunities | The New York Times | |
| 2008 | Book | Robert Kuttner | The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity | Knopf | |
| 2007 | Sol Stetin Award | David Montgomery | 2007 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | ||
| 2007 | Officers’ Award | Harry Belafonte | Harry Belafonte | ||
| 2007 | Photography | Mike Stocker and Joe Amon | Aids Orphans | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | |
| 2007 | Broadcast | Spike Lee and Sam Pollard | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/HBO | |
| 2007 | Magazine | Douglas McGray | The Invisibles | West Magazine, Los Angeles Times | |
| 2007 | Newspaper | Rukmini Maria Callimachi | Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath | The Associated Press | |
| 2007 | Book | Thomas E. Ricks | Fiasco | ||
| 2007 | Blog | Sam Rosenfeld, Web editor, Ann Friedman, Web deputy editor , Garance Franke-Ruta, Ezra Klein, and Matthew Yglesias, bloggers | Tapped | The American Prospect | |
| 2006 | Photography | Hector Amezcua and Tom Knudson | Los Piñeros: Men of the Pines | Sacramento Bee | |
| 2006 | Broadcast | Craig Cheatham, Jim Thomas, and Marty Van Housen | La Oroya | KMOV-TV, St Louis | |
| 2006 | Magazine | Dave Evans, Mike Smith, Liz Willen and Jonathan Neumann | Big Pharma's Shameful Secret | Bloomberg Markets | |
| 2006 | Newspaper | Cam Simpson | Pipeline to Peril | Chicago Tribune | |
| 2006 | Book | N/A | Award withheld | ||
| 2006 | Blog | Joshua Micah Marshall | Coverage of Social Security Issues | Talking Points Memo | |
| 2005 | Photography | Los Angeles Times | Award for Overall Excellence | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2005 | Broadcast | Greg Barker | Ghosts of Rwanda | PBS Frontline/WGBH | |
| 2005 | Magazine | Sarah Karp | Our Next Generation | The Chicago Reporter | |
| 2005 | Newspaper | Peter G. Gosselin | The New Deal | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2005 | Book | Jason DeParle | American Dream | Viking Press | |
| 2004 | Photography | Stanley Greene | Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 | Trolley | |
| 2004 | Broadcast | Brett Shipp, Mark Smith, and Kraig Kirchem | State of Denial | WFAA-TV | |
| 2004 | Magazine | John Bowe | Nobodies | The New Yorker | |
| 2004 | Newspaper | Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani and Tyler Marshall | The WalMart Effect | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2004 | Newspaper | David Barstow and Lowell Bergman NYT, Neil Docherty and David Rummel Frontline/CBC/NYT | Dangerous Business | New York Times & Frontline | |
| 2004 | Book | David Von Drehle | Triangle | Grove/Atlantic | |
| 2003 | Newspaper | Ellen Schultz & Theo Francis | Valued Employees: Worker Dies, Firm Profits | Wall Street Journal | |
| 2003 | Officers’ Award | Sol Stetin | President Emeritus, Textile Workers Union of America | ||
| 2003 | Photography | Don Bartletti and Sonia Nazario | Enrique's Journey | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2003 | Broadcast | Ofra Bikel | An Ordinary Crime | PBS Frontline | |
| 2003 | Book | Steven R. Weisman | The Great Tax Wars | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2002 | Newspaper | David Olinger | Seller Beware | The Denver Post | |
| 2002 | Officers’ Award | Carl Pope | Sierra Club Executive Director | ||
| 2002 | Photography | Mia Song | Poisoned Children: The Legacy of Lead | The Star-Ledger | |
| 2002 | Broadcast | Tia Lessin | Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan | Oxygen Network/WITNESS.org | |
| 2002 | Magazine | Katherine Boo | After Welfare | The New Yorker | |
| 2002 | Book | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2001 | Newspaper | Ellen Schultz | series of articles on pension cuts | Wall Street Journal | |
| 2001 | Officers’ Award | Delores Huerta | United Farmworkers of America | ||
| 2001 | Broadcast | Belle Adler and Brad White | American Dream, American Nightmare | A&E | |
| 2001 | Broadcast | Stacy Abramson and Dave Isay | Witness to an Execution | NPR's All Things Considered | |
| 2001 | Magazine | Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein, Gail Edmondson | China's Great Migration; Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating | Business Week | |
| 2001 | Book | Jack Metzgar | Striking Steel | Temple University Press | |
| 2000 | Newspaper | Maya Bell | Why Children Kill | The Orlando Sentinel | |
| 2000 | Officers’ Award | Studs Terkel | Studs Terkel | ||
| 2000 | Broadcast | Brian Lamb | For television in the public interest | C-SPAN | |
| 2000 | Magazine | Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel-and-Dimed | Harper's Magazine | |
| 2000 | Book | Katherine S. Newman | No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City | Russell Sage Foundation/Knopf | |
| 1999 | Newspaper | Jerry Mitchell | The Preacher and the Klansman & other investigative reporting on the KKK | The Clarion-Ledger | |
| 1999 | Officers’ Award | Students Against Sweatshops | Students Against Sweatshops | ||
| 1999 | Officers’ Award | Rev. Jesse Jackson | Rev. Jesse Jackson | ||
| 1999 | Magazine | Donald Barlett & James Steele | What Corporate Welfare Costs You | Time Magazine | |
| 1999 | Book | Taylor Branch | Pillar of Fire | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1998 | Newspaper | Jason DeParle | Learning Poverty Firsthand & other stories of welfare reform | The New York Times | |
| 1998 | Officers’ Award | Robert Reich | Former U.S Secretary of Labor | ||
| 1998 | Broadcast | Ed Bradley | Town Under Siege | CBS News | |
| 1998 | Magazine | William Finnegan | The Unwanted | The New Yorker | |
| 1998 | Book | Robert Kuttner | Everything for Sale | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 1997 | Officers’ Award | Ed Kruger: Comité Fronteriza de Obreras | Officer's UNITE Award | ||
| 1997 | Officers’ Award | Committee for a National Teach-In with Labor, Steve Fraser & Nelson Lichtenstein, Co-Conveners | Officers' Award for Public Service | ||
| 1997 | Newspaper | Rita Giordano & Alfred Lubrano | Passyunk Homes: Welfare's Ground Zero | The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1997 | Broadcast | Grace Kahng & Stone Phillips | Toy Story | Dateline, NBC | |
| 1997 | Broadcast | David Isay, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman | Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse | NPR's All Things Considered | |
| 1997 | Magazine | Charles Bowden | While You Were Sleeping | Harper's Magazine | |
| 1997 | Book | William Julius Wilson | When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 1996 | Officers’ Award | Bob Herbert | Bob Herbert | ||
| 1996 | Broadcast | Hedrick Smith | Across the River | WETA-TV | |
| 1996 | Magazine | Eric Schlosser | In the Strawberry Fields | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1996 | Book | Fox Butterfield | All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 1996 | Book | Nelson Lichtenstein | The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention) | Basic Books | |
| 1995 | Officers’ Award | Murray Kempton | Murray Kempton | ||
| 1995 | Magazine | Aaron Bernstein | Inequality and Why America Needs Unions | Business Week | |
| 1995 | Newspaper | Chris Kelley | "Whither the Cities?" | The Dallas Morning News | |
| 1995 | Book | James Traub | City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College | Perseus Books | |
| 1994 | Officers’ Award | Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower | ||
| 1994 | Broadcast | Andrew Tkach | Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today | ABC News, "Turning Point" | |
| 1994 | Broadcast | Ofra Bikel | Innocence Lost: The Verdict | FRONTLINE, WGBH-TV | |
| 1994 | Magazine | Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, and Barry Yeoman | Poverty, Inc. | Southern Exposure | |
| 1994 | Newspaper | Jim Morris | for the series Worked to Death | Houston Chronicle | |
| 1994 | Newspaper | Eileen Welsome | for the series The Plutonium Experiment | The Albuquerque Tribune | |
| 1994 | Book | William Chafe | Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism | Basic Books | |
| 1994 | Book | Ray Marshall & Marc Tucker | Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations | Basic Books | |
| 1993 | Broadcast | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz | Dateline: Wal-Mart's Buy American | NBC-TV | |
| 1993 | 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 | Gary Covino | David Duke: An Investigative Report | SOUNDPRINT | |
| 1992 | Broadcast | California Working Group | This Far By Faith | ||
| 1992 | Magazine | Laurie Udesky | Punishing the Poor | Southern Exposure | |
| 1992 | Newspaper | Nancy Stancill | for the series Slaves to the Sale | Houston Chronicle | |
| 1992 | Newspaper | Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele | for the series "America: What Went Wrong?" | The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1992 | Book | Nicholas Lemann | The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America | Knopf | |
| 1991 | Officers’ Award | Irving Howe | Irving Howe | ||
| 1991 | Broadcast | Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Through the Safety Net | MacNeil Lehrer Newshour, PBS | |
| 1991 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman | Medical Costs: A Dangerous Diagnosis | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1991 | Magazine | Frank Clancy | Healing the Delta and Burnout in L.A. | American Health Magazine | |
| 1991 | Newspaper | The Detroit Free Press | for the series "Workers at Risk" | The Detroit Free Press | |
| 1991 | Book | Andrew Revkin | The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1990 | Special Housing Award | Lisa Glazer | “Mixed Blessings: Life After the Welfare Hotels” | City Limits Magazine | |
| 1990 | Magazine | Lawrence Weschler | A Grand Experiment | The New Yorker | |
| 1990 | Officers’ Award | Harry Bernstein | Harry Bernstein | ||
| 1990 | Broadcast | Jonathan Kwitny | The Kwitny Report | WNYC/PBS | |
| 1990 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman | Home, Street, Home | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1990 | Newspaper | William H. and Margaret Wolf Freivogel | for the series "The Shift on Civil Rights" | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | |
| 1990 | Book | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1989 | Magazine | Robert Scheer | The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' | Los Angeles Times Magazine | |
| 1989 | Officers’ Award | Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. | Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. | ||
| 1989 | Broadcast | National Public Radio, News & Information Division | In recognition of far-reaching and creative news coverage, "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and "Weekend Edition" | ||
| 1989 | Broadcast | Marilyn V. DeAngelis | Child Care: Everybody's Baby | WLVI-TV56, Boston, MA | |
| 1989 | Newspaper | Anchorage Daily News | A People in Peril | Anchorage Daily News | |
| 1989 | Book | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | ||
| 1988 | Officers’ Award | John Herling | John Herling | ||
| 1988 | Officers’ Award | Michael Harrington | Michael Harrington | ||
| 1988 | Broadcast | Public Affairs Television, Inc. | In Search of the Constitution | ||
| 1988 | Broadcast | KMOX Radio, CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO | "The High Cost of Growing Old," Joan Beuckman, and " Truth or Consequences," Margie Manning | KMOX Radio | |
| 1988 | Magazine | Jerry Adler | Every Parent's Nightmare | Newsweek | |
| 1988 | Newspaper | The Journal | The Unfinished Dream | (Lorain Ohio) | |
| 1988 | Book | Raymond Bonner | Waltzing With a Dictator | Times Books | |
| 1987 | Magazine | Conor Cruise O'Brien | God and Man in Nicaragua | Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1987 | Broadcast | William Drummond | Vale of Tears: The Legacy of Silicon Valley | National Public Radio | |
| 1987 | Broadcast | CBS Reports | The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America | CBS-TV | |
| 1987 | Newspaper | Henry Weinstein, Thomas H. Maugh II, and Dan Morain | for the series "Drug Testing on the Job" | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1987 | Book | Robert S. McNamara | Blundering Into Disaster | Pantheon | |
| 1986 | Magazine | Daniel Ford | The Button | The New Yorker | |
| 1986 | Broadcast | Jane Elliott | A Class Divided (Honorary Award) | Yale University Films, FRONTLINE, WGBH, Boston, MA | |
| 1986 | Broadcast | William Peters | A Class Divided | Yale University Films; FRONTLINE, WGBH, Boston, MA | |
| 1986 | Newspaper | Series Writers | The American Millstone | Chicago Tribune | |
| 1986 | Book | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | Crown | |
| 1985 | Magazine | Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers' Award | The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover | The Nation | |
| 1985 | Magazine | Jacqueline Sharkey | The Tug of War | Common Cause Magazine | |
| 1985 | Broadcast | KMOX Radio, CBS affiliates, St. Louis, MO, (1984). | Series on Child Welfare | KMOX Radio | |
| 1985 | Broadcast | KMOL-TV, San Antonio, TX | Valley of the Shadow of Life | KMOL-TV | |
| 1985 | Newspaper | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | Freedom Summer: A Generation Later | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | |
| 1985 | Book | Strobe Talbott | Deadly Gambits | ||
| 1984 | Magazine | Carl Sagan | Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications | Foreign Affairs | |
| 1984 | Broadcast | Leslie Cockburn | The Pentagon Underground | Our Times with Bill Moyers, CBS News | |
| 1984 | Newspaper | Patrick Owens & Bob Wyrick | The Disability Nightmare | Newsday | |
| 1984 | Book | Seymour M. Hersh | The Price of Power | ||
| 1983 | Broadcast | Marc Cooper & Tim Frasca | El Salvador: The Elections | Pacifica Radio News | |
| 1983 | Broadcast | Judy Reemtsma | People Like Us | CBS News | |
| 1983 | Magazine | Elizabeth Drew | Politics and Money | The New Yorker | |
| 1983 | Newspaper | Rita Ciolli | for the series The Island Trees Case | Newsday | |
| 1983 | Book | Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | ||
| 1982 | Broadcast | Nina Totenberg, producer | All Things Considered: Voting Rights Act | National Public Radio | |
| 1982 | Broadcast | CBS Reports | The Defense of the United States | CBS News | |
| 1982 | Magazine | The Angolite | Louisiana Death Watch | ||
| 1982 | Newspaper | The Atlanta Constitution | for the series Black and Poor in Atlanta | The Atlanta Constitution | |
| 1982 | Book | Jacobo Timerman | Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number | ||
| 1981 | Broadcast | MacNeil-Lehrer Report | Special award for continued excellence in television journalism | ||
| 1981 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers' Journal | Campaign Report #3 | WNET/13 | |
| 1981 | Newspaper | The Miami Herald | for a series on police brutality | The Miami Herald | |
| 1981 | Book | Penny Lernoux | Cry of the People | ||
| 1980 | Broadcast | Carol Colman | Women at Work | WRFM-New York | |
| 1980 | Broadcast | Steve Singer and Tom Priestley | The Killing Ground | ABC-TV News Closeup | |
| 1980 | Officers’ Award | E.G. Marshall | E.G. Marshall | ||
| 1980 | Magazine | Michael H. Brown | Love Canal and the Poisoning of America | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1980 | Newspaper | Deidre Murphy | for a series on poverty | Rochester Democrat & Chronicle | |
| 1980 | Book | William Shawcross | Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia | ||
| 1979 | Broadcast | Abby Mann | King | Abby Mann/Filmway/NBC | |
| 1979 | Officers’ Award | Andrew Young | Andrew Young | ||
| 1979 | Magazine | Tracy Kidder | Soldiers of Misfortune | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1979 | Newspaper | I . F. Stone | Special Award | ||
| 1979 | Newspaper | Michael Flannery & Bruce Ingersoll | for a series on the working wounded | Chicago Sun Times | |
| 1979 | Book | Charles E. Silberman | Criminal Violence, Criminal J u s t i c e | ||
| 1978 | Broadcast | ABC Television Network | Roots (special award) | ABC-TV | |
| 1978 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers | The Fire Next Door | ||
| 1978 | Magazine | Eliot Marshall | Anatomy of Health Care Costs | The New Republic | |
| 1978 | Newspaper | Stan Swofford | for a series on the Wilmington 10 | Greensboro (NC) Daily News | |
| 1978 | Book | Philip Caputo | A Rumor of War | ||
| 1977 | Broadcast | Paul Leaf | Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys | ||
| 1977 | Magazine | Guy Neal Williams | The Mushroom Pickers | Philadelphia Magazine | |
| 1977 | Newspaper | John Seigenthaler | for courage in publishing | The Tennessean | |
| 1977 | Book | Richard Kluger | Simple Justice | ||
| 1976 | Broadcast | CBS Television Network | Fear on Trial | CBS-TV | |
| 1976 | Newspaper | William S. Randall & Stephen D. Solomon | investigative reporting | The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1976 | Magazine | Susan Sheehan | A Welfare Mother | The New Yorker | |
| 1976 | Book | E. J. Kahn, Jr. | The China Hands | ||
| 1975 | Broadcast | WNET/13 | Special Award for outstanding programming | WNET | |
| 1975 | Broadcast | CBS Television Network | Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | CBS-TV | |
| 1975 | Newspaper | Seymour M. Hersh | articles on the C.I.A. | The New York Times | |
| 1975 | Newspaper | The Boston Globe | coverage of school integration crisis | The Boston Globe | |
| 1975 | Book | Noel Mostert | Supership | ||
| 1975 | Book | Richard J. Barnet & Ronald E. Muller | Global Reach | ||
| 1974 | Newspaper | Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele | investigative reporting | The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1974 | Book | Alexamder Solzhenitsyn | Special Award | ||
| 1974 | Book | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | The Imperial Presidency | ||
| 1974 | Broadcast | Paul Altmeyer | Freedom & Security: The Uncertain Balance | Westinghouse Broadcasting Company | |
| 1974 | Magazine | Richard L. Strout | for his columns, signed TRB | The New Republic | |
| 1974 | Magazine | Paul Brodeur | Annals of Industry: Casualties of the Workplace | The New Yorker | |
| 1974 | Book | Jervis Anderson | A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. | |
| 1973 | Broadcast | Lucy Jarvis | What Price Health? | NBC-TV | |
| 1973 | Newspaper | Carl Bernstein & Robert Woodward | the Watergate investigation | The Washington Post | |
| 1973 | Book | Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake | ||
| 1973 | Magazine | Frank J. Donner & Eugene Cerruti | The Grand Jury Network | The Nation | |
| 1972 | Newspaper | Neil Sheehan | The Pentagon Papers | The New York Times | |
| 1972 | Broadcast | Martin Carr | This Child Is Rated X | NBC-TV | |
| 1972 | Magazine | Carolyn See, Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles and Richard Todd | Work in America | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1972 | Newspaper | Alfred Friendly | Victims of the Great American Red Hunt | The Washington Post | |
| 1972 | Book | Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen | America Inc. | ||
| 1971 | Broadcast | Ronn Bonn & Walter Cronkite | Can the World Be Saved | CBS News | |
| 1971 | Magazine | Christopher H. Pyle | articles on Army surveillance of political activity | The Washington Monthly | |
| 1971 | Newspaper | John Kifner | series on the Kent State tragedy | The New York Times | |
| 1970 | Book | Ramsey Clark | Crime in America | ||
| 1970 | Newspaper | William J. Eaton | The Appearance of Impropriety | Chicago Daily News | |
| 1970 | Broadcast | Fred Freed | Who Killed Lake Erie? | NBC-TV | |
| 1970 | Book | Congressman Richard McCarthy | The Ultimate Folly | ||
| 1970 | Magazine | Daniel Lang | Casualties of War | The New Yorker | |
| 1969 | Newspaper | James K. Batten & Dwayne Walls | The People Left Behind | Charlotte Observer | |
| 1969 | Broadcast | Bill Osterhous & Dick Huber | One Nation, Indivisible | Westinghouse Broadcasting Company | |
| 1969 | Book | George R. Stewart | Not So Rich As You Think | ||
| 1969 | Officers’ Award | W. Willard Wirtz | W. Willard Wirtz | ||
| 1969 | Magazine | Charles and Bonnie Remsberg | America's Hungry Families | Good Housekeeping | |
| 1968 | Newspaper | Howard James | series on the Crisis in the Courts | The Christian Science Monitor | |
| 1968 | Broadcast | Harold & Lynne Rhodes Mayer, producer and writer | The Way It Is | National Educational Television Network (Honorable Mention) | |
| 1968 | Broadcast | Jay L. McMullen | The Tenement | CBS-TV News | |
| 1968 | Book | Ronald Steel | Pax Americana | ||
| 1968 | Book | Alan F. Westin | Privacy and Freedom | ||
| 1967 | Newspaper | Robert Keveney & Douglas Walker | a series on right-wing groups | Dayton Daily News | |
| 1967 | Newspaper | Harrison E. Salisbury | reporting from North Vietnam (special award) | The New York Times | |
| 1967 | Officers’ Award | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Msgr. George C. Higgins, Rabbi Jacob Weinstein | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Msgr. George C. Higgins, Rabbi Jacob Weinstein | ||
| 1967 | Broadcast | William C. Jersey | A Time for Burning | National Educational Television Network | |
| 1967 | Magazine | Richard Harris | Medicare | The New Yorker | |
| 1967 | Book | Joseph P. Lyford | The Airtight Cage | ||
| 1966 | Magazine | Theodore Draper | The Dominican Crisis - A Case Study in American Policy | Commentary | |
| 1966 | Book | Kenneth B. Clark | Dark Ghetto | ||
| 1965 | Newspaper | J. O. Emmerich | editorials on the civil rights crisis there | Enterprise Journal (McComb, MS) | |
| 1965 | Broadcast | Joseph Wershba | Gideon's Trumpet: The Poor Man & The Law | CBS-TV | |
| 1965 | Magazine | J. Robert Moskin | Challenge to Our Doctors | Look | |
| 1965 | Book | Bernard D. Nossiter | The Mythmakers | ||
| 1965 | Book | D r. James W. Silver | Mississippi: The Closed Society | ||
| 1964 | Newspaper | Horance G. Davis | editorials on civil rights | Gainesville (FL) Daily Sun | |
| 1964 | Broadcast | Millard Lampell | "No Hiding Place," on the East Side/West Side series | CBS-TV | |
| 1964 | Magazine | Arnold Hano | The Burned Out Americans | Saga Magazine | |
| 1964 | Book | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-lntellectualism in American Life | ||
| 1963 | Newspaper | Ira Harkey | editorials on the crisis at the Mississippi University | Pascagoula (MS) Chronicle | |
| 1963 | Broadcast | John Keats, writer, George Dessart, producer, David E. Wilson, director | Conformity | WCAU-T V, Philadelphia | |
| 1963 | Broadcast | Warren Wallace | Superfluous People | WCBS-TV, New York | |
| 1963 | Magazine | Margaret Parton | Sometimes Life Just Happens | Ladies Home Journal | |
| 1963 | Book | Michael Harrington | The Other America | ||
| 1962 | Broadcast | Al Wasserman, producer, Robert Young, director, and Charles Dorkins, cameraman | White Paper #7 : Angola: Journey to a War | NBC-TV | |
| 1962 | Magazine | Lillian Smith | The Ordeal of Southern Women | Redbook | |
| 1962 | Newspaper | Patrick J. Owens | ed itorials on current issues | Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial | |
| 1962 | Book | Jane Jacobs | Death and Life of Great American Cities | ||
| 1961 | Broadcast | Walter Peters, producer, Marshal Diskin, director, (1960). | Cast the First Stone | ABC-TV | |
| 1961 | Magazine | Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake | Poor, Proud and Primitive: The Lost Appalachians | The Nation | |
| 1961 | Newspaper | Sylvan Meyer | editorials on race relations | Gainesville (GA) Daily Times | |
| 1961 | Book | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | ||
| 1961 | Book | David McEntire | Residence and Race | ||
| 1960 | Broadcast | Edward P. Morgan, | News broadcasts over the ABC Network | ABC-TV | |
| 1960 | Broadcast | WNTA-TV, N.Y. | "PIay of the Week" programs | WNTA-TV | |
| 1960 | Book | Harold M. Hyman | To Try Men's Souls | University of California Press | |
| 1959 | Officers’ Award | Robert M. Hutchins | Robert M. Hutchins | ||
| 1959 | 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 | |
| 1959 | Magazine | Harvey Swados | Myth of the Powerful Worker | The Nation | |
| 1959 | Magazine | Giorgio De Santillana | Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer | The Reporter | |
| 1959 | Newspaper | Harry L. & Gretchen Billings | editorials on civil liberties and public welfare system | The People | |
| 1959 | Newspaper | Ralph McGill | editorials defending the public school system | Atlanta Constitution | |
| 1959 | Book | John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1958 | Officers’ Award | Paul H. Douglas | Paul H. Douglas | ||
| 1958 | Broadcast | Theodore Ayres | "Face the Nation" interview with Krushchev | CBS-TV | |
| 1958 | Broadcast | George A. Vicas | "Radio Beat " debates between American and Soviet scientists and educators | CBS Radio | |
| 1958 | Newspaper | A. M. Secrest | editorials on civil rights | Cheraw (SC) Chronicle | |
| 1958 | Newspaper | Harry Ashmore | editorials on school integration | Arkansas Gazette | |
| 1958 | Book | Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely | Neither Black Nor White | Literary Licensing, LLC | |
| 1957 | Officers’ Award | Eleanor Roosevelt | Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
| 1957 | Magazine | John Fischer | The Harm Good People Do | Harper's Magazine | |
| 1957 | Magazine | Robert Penn Warren | Divided South Searches Its Soul | Life | |
| 1957 | Newspaper | Robert H. Spiegel | series on segregation in Des Moines | Des Moines Tribune | |
| 1957 | Newspaper | The New York Times | editorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award) | The New York Times | |
| 1957 | Book | Walter Gellhorn | Individual Freedom and Government Restraints | Praeger | |
| 1956 | Officers’ Award | Wayne L. Morse | Wayne L. Morse | ||
| 1956 | Magazine | Robert Engler | Oil and Politics | The New Republic | |
| 1956 | Newspaper | Murray Marder | articles on the government security program | Washington Post | |
| 1956 | Newspaper | Ben H. Bagdikian | series on civil liberties | Providence Journal Bulletin | |
| 1956 | Book | John Lord O'Brien | National Security and Individual Freedom | Harvard University Press | |
| 1955 | Magazine | Charlotte Knight | What Price Security | Collier's | |
| 1955 | Magazine | The Progressive | special issue on Senator McCarthy (special award) | The Progressive | |
| 1955 | Officers’ Award | Bishop Bernard J. Sheil | Bishop Bernard J. Sheil | ||
| 1955 | Broadcast | Eric Sevareid | "American Week," programs on civil rights issues | CBS-TV | |
| 1955 | Broadcast | WNYC, New York City | public service program (special award) | WNYC | |
| 1955 | Newspaper | Vic Reinemer | editorials on civil liberties and civil rights | Charlotte (NC) News | |
| 1955 | Newspaper | Daniel R. Fitzpatrick | editorial cartoons (special award) | St. Louis Dispatch | |
| 1955 | Book | Henry Steele Commager | Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent | Oxford University Press | |
| 1954 | Officers’ Award | Harry S. Truman | Harry S. Truman | ||
| 1954 | Broadcast | Gerald W. Johnson | broadcast on civil liberties and other issues | WAAM, Baltimore | |
| 1954 | Broadcast | Edward R. Murrow | "See It Now" programs on civil liberties | CBS-TV | |
| 1954 | Magazine | Joseph Wechsberg | The Seventeenth of June | The New Yorker | |
| 1954 | Ralph S. O’Leary | a series on civil liberties | Houston Post | ||
| 1954 | Book | Theodore H. White | Fire in the Ashes | Sloane | |
| 1953 | Officers’ Award | William O. Douglas | William O. Douglas | ||
| 1953 | Newspaper | W. Horace Carter, Tabor City (NC) Tribune, Wi l la rd G. Cole, Whiteville (NC) News and Reporter, Jay Jenkins, Raleigh (NC) News and Observer | articles and editorials exposing the Ku Klux Klan | North Carolina Tribune, North Carolina News and Reporter, North Carolina News and Observer | |
| 1953 | Book | Herbert Block | The Herblock Book | Beacon Press | |
| 1952 | Magazine | Arthur D. Morse | Who's Trying to Ruin Our Schools? | McCall's | |
| 1952 | Officers’ Award | Herbert H Lehman | Herbert H Lehman | ||
| 1952 | Newspaper | Carl T. Rowan | articles on race relations in the South | Minneapolis Tribune | |
| 1952 | Book | Alan Barth | The Loyalty of Free Men | Viking | |
| 1951 | Magazine | James H. Means, M.D. | Doctors Lobby and England's Public Medicine: The Facts | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1951 | Officers’ Award | Frank P. Graham | Frank P. Graham | ||
| 1951 | Officers’ Award | Oscar R. Ewing | Oscar R. Ewing | ||
| 1951 | Newspaper | A. H. Raskin | articles on labor | The New York Times | |
| 1950 | Newspaper | Murray Kempton | articles on labor in the South | New York Post | |
| 1950 | Book | John Hersey | The Wall | Modern Library |