The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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| Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Magazine | Josh Eidelson | The U.S. Workplace Power Struggle | Bloomberg Businessweek | |
| 2023 | Magazine | Ava Kofman | Endgame | ProPublica and The New Yorker | |
| 2022 | Magazine | Ari Berman | Reporting on Voting Rights | Mother Jones | |
| 2021 | Magazine | David Dayen | Unsanitized | The American Prospect | |
| 2020 | Magazine | Pamela Colloff | False Witness | ProPublica & New York Times Magazine | |
| 2019 | Magazine | Hannah Dreier | Trapped in Gangland | ProPublica, New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New York Times Magazine | |
| 2018 | Magazine | Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal | “The Uncounted” | New York Times Magazine | |
| 2017 | Magazine | Nikole Hannah-Jones | “Choosing a School For My Daughter in a Segregated City” | New York Times Magazine | |
| 2016 | Magazine | Melissa del Bosque | “Death on Sevenmile Road” | Texas Observer/The Investigative Fund | |
| 2015 | Magazine | John H. Richardson | “The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” | Esquire | |
| 2014 | Magazine | Jonathan Cohn | “The Hell of American Daycare” | The New Republic | |
| 2013 | Magazine | Shane Bauer | “No Way Out: A Special Report on Solitary Confinement” | Mother Jones/ The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute | |
| 2012 | Magazine | Sarah Stillman | "The Invisible Army" | The New Yorker | |
| 2011 | Magazine | Tim Noah | The Great Divergence | Slate.com | |
| 2010 | Magazine | Rebecca Clarren | The Dark Side of Dairies | High Country News | |
| 2009 | Magazine | The Nation | The New Inequality - Special Issue | The Nation | |
| 2008 | Magazine | Ray Ring | Death in the Energy Fields | High Country News | |
| 2007 | Magazine | Douglas McGray | The Invisibles | West Magazine, Los Angeles Times | |
| 2006 | Magazine | Dave Evans, Mike Smith, Liz Willen and Jonathan Neumann | Big Pharma's Shameful Secret | Bloomberg Markets | |
| 2005 | Magazine | Sarah Karp | Our Next Generation | The Chicago Reporter | |
| 2004 | Magazine | John Bowe | Nobodies | The New Yorker | |
| 2002 | Magazine | Katherine Boo | After Welfare | The New Yorker | |
| 2001 | Magazine | Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein, Gail Edmondson | China's Great Migration; Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating | Business Week | |
| 2000 | Magazine | Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel-and-Dimed | Harper's Magazine | |
| 1999 | Magazine | Donald Barlett & James Steele | What Corporate Welfare Costs You | Time Magazine | |
| 1998 | Magazine | William Finnegan | The Unwanted | The New Yorker | |
| 1997 | Magazine | Charles Bowden | While You Were Sleeping | Harper's Magazine | |
| 1996 | Magazine | Eric Schlosser | In the Strawberry Fields | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1995 | Magazine | Aaron Bernstein | Inequality and Why America Needs Unions | Business Week | |
| 1994 | Magazine | Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, and Barry Yeoman | Poverty, Inc. | Southern Exposure | |
| 1993 | Magazine | Jonathan Schlefer | What Price Economic Growth? | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1992 | Magazine | Laurie Udesky | Punishing the Poor | Southern Exposure | |
| 1991 | Magazine | Frank Clancy | Healing the Delta and Burnout in L.A. | American Health Magazine | |
| 1990 | Magazine | Lawrence Weschler | A Grand Experiment | The New Yorker | |
| 1989 | Magazine | Robert Scheer | The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' | Los Angeles Times Magazine | |
| 1988 | Magazine | Jerry Adler | Every Parent's Nightmare | Newsweek | |
| 1987 | Magazine | Conor Cruise O'Brien | God and Man in Nicaragua | Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1986 | Magazine | Daniel Ford | The Button | The New Yorker | |
| 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 | |
| 1984 | Magazine | Carl Sagan | Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications | Foreign Affairs | |
| 1983 | Magazine | Elizabeth Drew | Politics and Money | The New Yorker | |
| 1982 | Magazine | The Angolite | Louisiana Death Watch | ||
| 1980 | Magazine | Michael H. Brown | Love Canal and the Poisoning of America | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1979 | Magazine | Tracy Kidder | Soldiers of Misfortune | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1978 | Magazine | Eliot Marshall | Anatomy of Health Care Costs | The New Republic | |
| 1977 | Magazine | Guy Neal Williams | The Mushroom Pickers | Philadelphia Magazine | |
| 1976 | Magazine | Susan Sheehan | A Welfare Mother | The New Yorker | |
| 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 | |
| 1973 | Magazine | Frank J. Donner & Eugene Cerruti | The Grand Jury Network | The Nation | |
| 1972 | Magazine | Carolyn See, Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles and Richard Todd | Work in America | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1971 | Magazine | Christopher H. Pyle | articles on Army surveillance of political activity | The Washington Monthly | |
| 1970 | Magazine | Daniel Lang | Casualties of War | The New Yorker | |
| 1969 | Magazine | Charles and Bonnie Remsberg | America's Hungry Families | Good Housekeeping | |
| 1967 | Magazine | Richard Harris | Medicare | The New Yorker | |
| 1966 | Magazine | Theodore Draper | The Dominican Crisis - A Case Study in American Policy | Commentary | |
| 1965 | Magazine | J. Robert Moskin | Challenge to Our Doctors | Look | |
| 1964 | Magazine | Arnold Hano | The Burned Out Americans | Saga Magazine | |
| 1963 | Magazine | Margaret Parton | Sometimes Life Just Happens | Ladies Home Journal | |
| 1962 | Magazine | Lillian Smith | The Ordeal of Southern Women | Redbook | |
| 1961 | Magazine | Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake | Poor, Proud and Primitive: The Lost Appalachians | The Nation | |
| 1959 | Magazine | Harvey Swados | Myth of the Powerful Worker | The Nation | |
| 1959 | Magazine | Giorgio De Santillana | Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer | The Reporter | |
| 1957 | Magazine | John Fischer | The Harm Good People Do | Harper's Magazine | |
| 1957 | Magazine | Robert Penn Warren | Divided South Searches Its Soul | Life | |
| 1956 | Magazine | Robert Engler | Oil and Politics | The New Republic | |
| 1955 | Magazine | Charlotte Knight | What Price Security | Collier's | |
| 1955 | Magazine | The Progressive | special issue on Senator McCarthy (special award) | The Progressive | |
| 1954 | Magazine | Joseph Wechsberg | The Seventeenth of June | The New Yorker | |
| 1952 | Magazine | Arthur D. Morse | Who's Trying to Ruin Our Schools? | McCall's | |
| 1951 | Magazine | James H. Means, M.D. | Doctors Lobby and England's Public Medicine: The Facts | The Atlantic Monthly |