The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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| Year | Category | Honoree |
Title |
Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Magazine | Carolyn See, Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles and Richard Todd | Work in America | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 2008 | Officers’ Award | Writers Guild of America | Writers Guild of America | ||
| 2019 | Web | Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson | “Ambushed at Home” | Reuters | |
| 2022 | Newspaper | Gina Barton, Daphne Duret and Brett Murphy | “Behind the Blue Wall” | USA TODAY | |
| 2013 | Photography | Rick Loomis | “Beyond 7 Billion” | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2013 | Broadcast | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Mosk and Cindy Galli | “Brian Ross Investigates: Tragedy In Bangladesh” | Nightline, World News and ABCNews.com | |
| 2016 | Newspaper | Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, Tom Robbins | “Cellblock Justice” | The New York Times and the Marshall Project | |
| 2017 | Magazine | Nikole Hannah-Jones | “Choosing a School For My Daughter in a Segregated City” | New York Times Magazine | |
| 2017 | Web | Jamie Kalven | “Code of Silence” | The Intercept | |
| 2016 | Magazine | Melissa del Bosque | “Death on Sevenmile Road” | Texas Observer/The Investigative Fund | |
| 2017 | Broadcast | Brendan Keefe | “Dying For Help: Fixing The Nation's Emergency Response System” | WXIA-TV, Atlanta | |
| 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 | |
| 2013 | Web | Alison Young and Peter Eisler | “Ghost Factories” | USA TODAY | |
| 1990 | Special Housing Award | Lisa Glazer | “Mixed Blessings: Life After the Welfare Hotels” | City Limits Magazine | |
| 2013 | Magazine | Shane Bauer | “No Way Out: A Special Report on Solitary Confinement” | Mother Jones/ The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute | |
| 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 | |
| 2013 | Newspaper | Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne | “Playing with Fire” | Chicago Tribune | |
| 2014 | Newspaper | Pat Beall | “Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain” | The Palm Beach Post | |
| 2018 | Newspaper | Brett Murphy | “Rigged: Forced into debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.” | USA TODAY Network | |
| 2014 | Web | Craig Welch & Steve Ringman | “Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn” | The Seattle Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | |
| 2015 | Magazine | John H. Richardson | “The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” | Esquire | |
| 2015 | Web | Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman | “The Echo Chamber” | Reuters | |
| 2014 | Magazine | Jonathan Cohn | “The Hell of American Daycare” | The New Republic | |
| 2018 | Magazine | Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal | “The Uncounted” | New York Times Magazine | |
| 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 |