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]
Year | Category | Winner | Work | Organization | |
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2009 | A.C. Thompson | "Katrina's Hidden Race War" | The Nation | ||
2009 | JoAnn Wypijewski | "Carnal Knowledge" | The Nation | ||
2009 | Mother Jones | "Climate Countdown," | Mother Jones | ||
2009 | Nina Bernstein | coverage of immigration issues | The New York Times | ||
2009 | Cartooning | Jen Sorensen | "Slowpoke Comics" | [5] [6] [7] | |
2008 | Lifetime Achievement | Les Payne | Newsday[8] | ||
2008 | E.J. Graff | "The Lie We Love" | Foreign Policy | ||
2008 | Joseph Huff-Hannon | "Facing Foreclosure" | The Indypendent | ||
2008 | "A My Lai a Month" | The Nation[9] | |||
2008 | Blog Award | NewsDissector.org. | |||
2008 | Cartooning | Ed Stein | |||
2007 | "The Poverty Business" | BusinessWeek | |||
2007 | Helen Benedict | "The Private War of Women Soldiers" | Salon.com[10] | ||
2007 | Dahr Jamail | Iraq reporting | DahrJamailIraq.com | ||
2007 | Jeremy Scahill | "Blackwater Worldwide" | The Nation | ||
2007 | Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez | "The Mayan Way" | Daily Review of Hayward, California | ||
2007 | Cartooning | Lakeville [CT] Journal | |||
2006 | Lifetime Achievement | Amy Goodman | [11] | ||
2006 | Julia Whitty | "The Fate of the Ocean" | Mother Jones | ||
2006 | Corine Hegland | "Guantanamo's Grip" | National Journal | ||
2006 | Judy Pasternak | "Blighted Homeland" | Los Angeles Times | ||
2006 | Tim Collie, Mike Stocker, Jim Amon | "Orphans of AIDS" | South Florida-Sentinel | ||
2006 | Cartooning | John Sherffius | Boulder Daily Camera | ||
2005 | Lifetime Achievement | Molly Ivins | |||
2005 | Lifetime Achievement | ||||
2005 | Gary Fields | Wall Street Journal | |||
2005 | Kevin Fagan, Brant Ward | San Francisco Chronicle[12] | |||
2005 | Tracie McMillan | City Limits magazine | |||
2005 | Blogs | Juan Cole | "Informed Comment" | ||
2005 | Cartooning | ||||
2004 | Seymour M. Hersh | "Abu Graib" | The New Yorker | ||
2004 | Naomi Klein | Harper's | |||
2004 | Frank Rich | The New York Times | |||
2004 | Peter G. Gosselin | "New Deal" | Los Angeles Times | ||
2004 | Cartooning | Bill Day | Memphis Commercial-Appeal | ||
2003 | political commentary | The New York Times & The Nation | |||
2003 | Jake Bernstein & Dave Mann | "The Rise of the Machine" | The Texas Observer | ||
2003 | "Lives Lost" | The Boston Globe | |||
2003 | David Barstow & Lowell Bergman | "Dangerous Business" & "When Workers Die" | The New York Times | ||
2003 | Iraq War | Newsday | |||
2003 | Cartooning | Mark Fiore | Animated Political Cartooning | ||
2002 | William Finnegan | "Leasing the Rain" | The New Yorker[13] | ||
2002 | Seth Rosenfeld | FBI & Clark Kerr | San Francisco Chronicle | ||
2002 | African-American and white students | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | |||
2002 | mistreatment of the homeless | Gambit Weekly | |||
2002 | Cartooning | "Generalissimo El Busho" | |||
2001 | William Greider | "regulatory takings" movement | The Nation[14] | ||
2001 | Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed | "Torn From the Land" | Associated Press | ||
2001 | Lifetime Achievement | Robert Sherrill | |||
2001 | Cartooning | Dan Perkins | "Tom Tomorrow" | ||
2001 | Lifetime Achievement | Edward Sorel | |||
2000 | "pension-paring spree" | Wall Street Journal[15] | |||
2000 | "This American Is Hungry" | George magazine | |||
2000 | Los Angeles Times & The Nation | ||||
2000 | Juan Gonzalez | New York Daily News | |||
2000 | Cartooning | Steve Brodner | "art journalism" | ||
1999 | Sasha Abramsky | "When They Get Out" | Atlantic Monthly | ||
1999 | Larry Johnson, Dan DeLong | "Life and Death in Iraq" | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | ||
1999 | "America's Immigration Dilemma" | Copley News Service | |||
1999 | Lifetime Achievement | Jules Feiffer | |||
1999 | Cartooning | Art Spiegelman | New Yorker magazine | ||
1998 | Newsday | "The Health Divide" | Newsday | ||
1998 | "Plucking Workers" | The Progressive | |||
1998 | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele | corporate welfare | Time | ||
1997 | Commentary | Bob Herbert | police brutality | The New York Times | |
1997 | Environmental Reporting | ||||
1997 | Socioeconomic Reporting | Marc Kaufman & Dan Stets | Philadelphia Board of City Trusts | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
1997 | International Reporting | Eyal Press, Jennifer Washburn, Benn Terrall & Amy Goodman | U.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 Mention | Greg Davis | Maine's DeCoster Egg Farms. | ||
1995 | Barry Bearak | "The Waning Power of Workers" | Los Angeles Times | ||
1995 | Honorable mention | Nancy Stancill | "Paid in Pain" | Charlotte Observer | |
1995 | Lifetime Achievement | John Oakes | The 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 | |||
1993 | Honorable mention | "“La Migra: The Border Patrol's Wall of Silence" | Texas Observer | ||
1993 | Honorable mention | New Orleans Times-Picayune | "The Myth of Race" | ||
1992 | "L.A.: Burning All Illusions" | The Nation | |||
1992 | Honorable mention | Celia Dugger | foster 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 practices | Lies 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 America | New Yorker |