The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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| Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Philippe Sands KC | 2024 George Barrett Award Recipient | |||
| 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 | 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. | |
| 2023 | David Cole | 2023 George Barrett Award Recipient | |||
| 2022 | 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” | 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 | Officers’ Award | Robert Parris Moses | Founder and President, The Algebra Project | ||
| 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 |