James Aronson Award Explained

The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism has been awarded since 1990 to honor Hunter College Professor, James Aronson.[1] This award honors original, written English-language reporting from the U.S. media that brings to light widespread injustices, their human consequences, underlying causes, and possible reforms. This includes but is not limited to: discrimination, exploitation, violations of human rights or civil liberties, and environmental degradation.[2] The Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience Award is named for his wife, (Blanche Mary) Grambs Aronson.[3] The award, which was established in 1998, seeks to honor Hunter College students who demonstrate prowess in editorial cartooning in either print or digital media.[4]

List of winners

YearCategoryWinnerWorkOrganization
2009A.C. Thompson"Katrina's Hidden Race War" The Nation
2009JoAnn Wypijewski"Carnal Knowledge" The Nation
2009Mother Jones"Climate Countdown," Mother Jones
2009Nina Bernsteincoverage of immigration issuesThe New York Times
2009Cartooning Jen Sorensen"Slowpoke Comics"[5] [6] [7]
2008 Lifetime AchievementLes PayneNewsday[8]
2008E.J. Graff"The Lie We Love"Foreign Policy
2008Joseph Huff-Hannon"Facing Foreclosure" The Indypendent
2008"A My Lai a Month" The Nation[9]
2008Blog AwardNewsDissector.org.
2008Cartooning Ed Stein
2007"The Poverty Business" BusinessWeek
2007Helen Benedict"The Private War of Women Soldiers"Salon.com[10]
2007Dahr JamailIraq reporting DahrJamailIraq.com
2007Jeremy Scahill"Blackwater Worldwide"The Nation
2007Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez"The Mayan Way" Daily Review of Hayward, California
2007Cartooning Lakeville [CT] Journal
2006Lifetime AchievementAmy Goodman[11]
2006Julia Whitty"The Fate of the Ocean" Mother Jones
2006Corine Hegland"Guantanamo's Grip" National Journal
2006Judy Pasternak"Blighted Homeland" Los Angeles Times
2006Tim Collie, Mike Stocker, Jim Amon"Orphans of AIDS" South Florida-Sentinel
2006Cartooning John SherffiusBoulder Daily Camera
2005Lifetime AchievementMolly Ivins
2005Lifetime Achievement
2005Gary FieldsWall Street Journal
2005Kevin Fagan, Brant WardSan Francisco Chronicle[12]
2005Tracie McMillanCity Limits magazine
2005Blogs Juan Cole"Informed Comment"
2005Cartooning
2004Seymour M. Hersh"Abu Graib" The New Yorker
2004Naomi KleinHarper's
2004Frank RichThe New York Times
2004Peter G. Gosselin"New Deal"Los Angeles Times
2004 CartooningBill DayMemphis Commercial-Appeal
2003political commentary The New York Times & The Nation
2003Jake Bernstein & Dave Mann"The Rise of the Machine" The Texas Observer
2003"Lives Lost"The Boston Globe
2003David Barstow & Lowell Bergman"Dangerous Business" & "When Workers Die" The New York Times
2003Iraq War Newsday
2003CartooningMark FioreAnimated Political Cartooning
2002William Finnegan"Leasing the Rain" The New Yorker[13]
2002Seth RosenfeldFBI & Clark Kerr San Francisco Chronicle
2002African-American and white students Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2002 mistreatment of the homeless Gambit Weekly
2002Cartooning "Generalissimo El Busho"
2001William Greider"regulatory takings" movementThe Nation[14]
2001Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed"Torn From the Land" Associated Press
2001Lifetime Achievement Robert Sherrill
2001CartooningDan Perkins"Tom Tomorrow"
2001Lifetime Achievement Edward Sorel
2000"pension-paring spree" Wall Street Journal[15]
2000"This American Is Hungry" George magazine
2000Los Angeles Times & The Nation
2000Juan GonzalezNew York Daily News
2000Cartooning Steve Brodner"art journalism"
1999Sasha Abramsky"When They Get Out" Atlantic Monthly
1999Larry Johnson, Dan DeLong"Life and Death in Iraq" Seattle Post-Intelligencer
1999"America's Immigration Dilemma" Copley News Service
1999Lifetime Achievement Jules Feiffer
1999CartooningArt SpiegelmanNew Yorker magazine
1998 Newsday"The Health Divide" Newsday
1998 "Plucking Workers" The Progressive
1998Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steelecorporate welfareTime
1997 CommentaryBob Herbertpolice brutality The New York Times
1997 Environmental Reporting
1997 Socioeconomic ReportingMarc Kaufman & Dan StetsPhiladelphia Board of City Trusts Philadelphia Inquirer
1997 International Reporting Eyal Press, Jennifer Washburn, Benn Terrall & Amy GoodmanU.S.-Indonesia Society & Suharto The Progressive
1996 Charles M. Sennott"Armed for Profit: The Selling of U.S. Weapons" Boston Globe[16]
1996 Gary Webb"Dark Alliance" San Jose Mercury News
1996 Honorable MentionGreg DavisMaine's DeCoster Egg Farms.
1995Barry Bearak"The Waning Power of Workers" Los Angeles Times
1995 Honorable mention Nancy Stancill"Paid in Pain" Charlotte Observer
1995 Lifetime Achievement John OakesThe New York Times
1994 Haiti The Nation
1994 Honorable mention "9 to Nowhere: The Grim Side of '90s Growth Jobs" Wall Street Journal
1994 Honorable mention "Robbin' the Hood: How Wall Street Takes from the Poor and Gives to the Rich" Mother Jones
1993 "The Plutonium Experiment" Albuquerque Tribune
1993Honorable mention "“La Migra: The Border Patrol's Wall of Silence" Texas Observer
1993Honorable mention New Orleans Times-Picayune "The Myth of Race"
1992"L.A.: Burning All Illusions" The Nation
1992 Honorable mention Celia Duggerfoster care, welfare and people in poverty The New York Times
1992 Honorable mention Robert Weissman"The Corporate Rap Sheet" Multinational Monitor
1991 "Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land."
1991 Honorable mention press assumptions and practicesLies of Our Times
1991 Honorable mention The San Francisco Chronicle
1990 CIA's role in Indonesia State News Service, The Washington Post
1990 Honorable Mention"Talk of the Town" pieces on Central AmericaNew Yorker
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism . Filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu . 2010-07-20 . 2016-04-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160414190443/http://filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu/aronson/index.html . dead .
  2. News: Aronson Awards. Aronson Awards. 2017-02-17. en-US.
  3. Web site: A. Kisselgof . Illustrator Grambs Aronson Dies at 94 - 3/12/10 - Vineyard Gazette Online . US-MA . Mvgazette.com . 2010-07-20.
  4. News: Aronson Awards. Aronson Awards. 2017-02-17. en-US.
  5. Web site: Newsday’s Les Payne Wins Aronson Lifetime Achievement Award At Hunter College – CUNY Newswire – CUNY . .cuny.edu . 2009-05-04 . 2010-07-20.
  6. Web site: Jen Sorensen, Cartoonist With Conscience : Ms Magazine Blog . Msmagazine.com . 2010-04-07 . 2010-07-20.
  7. Web site: %time% . Jen Sorensen Gets James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism | Honors & Achievements | AltWeeklies.com . Posting.altweeklies.com . 2010-07-20.
  8. Web site: Les Payne Wins Aronson Lifetime Achievement Award At Hunter College . Blog.Lespayne.Net . 2009-05-14 . 2010-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090528034655/http://blog.lespayne.net/2009/05/14/les-payne-wins-aronson-lifetime-achievement-award-at-hunter-college.aspx . 2009-05-28 . dead .
  9. Web site: The Ridenhour Prizes - Fostering the spirit of courage and truth . Ridenhour.org . 2010-01-27 . 2010-07-20.
  10. Web site: Professor Helen Benedict receives James Aronson Award - The Journalism School Columbia University . Journalism.columbia.edu . 2008-04-08 . 2010-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100623012507/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270052298/JRN_News_C/1175374528602/JRNNewsDetail.htm . 2010-06-23 . dead .
  11. Web site: Staff . Democracy Now! . 2001-09-11 . 2010-07-20.
  12. Web site: Chronicle writer wins social justice award - SFGate . Articles.sfgate.com . 2006-03-19 . 2010-07-20.
  13. Web site: Contributors: William Finnegan. The New Yorker. 25 June 2014.
  14. Web site: Aronson Awards to Three.(James Aronson journalism awards)(Brief Article) - The Nation . https://web.archive.org/web/20121104090007/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-86066466.html . dead . 2012-11-04 . Highbeam.com . 2002-05-13 . 2010-07-20.
  15. Web site: Ellen E. Schultz | UCLA Anderson School of Management . Anderson.ucla.edu . 2010-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111128033013/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x8885.xml . 2011-11-28 . dead .
  16. Web site: 1997 NATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARDS . The Boston Globe . 2010-07-20.
  17. Web site: The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism . https://web.archive.org/web/20020805120145/http://filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu/aronson/pastwinners.html . dead . 2002-08-05 . Filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu . 2008-04-25 . 2010-07-20 .