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James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism has been awarded by Hunter College

Hunter College

Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...

since 1990.

It is to honor the Hunter College professor of journalism and editor James Aronson

James Aronson

James Aronson was an American journalist. He founded the left-leaning National Guardian. He was a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.- Work before the Guardian :...

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The Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience award is named for his wife, (Blanche Mary) Grambs Aronson.

List of Winners

Year	Category	Winner	Work	Organization
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 Jen Sorensen Jen Sorensen is an American cartoonist who authors Slowpoke, a weekly comic strip that often focuses on current events from a liberal perspective. The comic generally makes use of three recurring characters: Mr...	"Slowpoke Comics"
2008	Lifetime Achievement	Les Payne		Newsday
2008		E.J. Graff	“The Lie We Love"	Foreign Policy
2008		Joseph Huff-Hannon	“Facing Foreclosure	The Indypendent
2008		Nick Turse Nick Turse Nick Turse is a journalist, historian and author. He wrote The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives and recevied a Ridenhour Prize in 2010 for his accounts of the Vietnam War...	“A My Lai a Month"	The Nation
2008	Blog Award	Danny Schechter Danny Schechter Danny Schechteris a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic who writes and lectures frequently about the media in the United States and worldwide. He specializes in investigative journalism and producing programming about the interfaces among human rights, journalism,...		NewsDissector.org.
2008	Cartooning	Ed Stein Ed Stein Edward F. Stein was a former Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Chicago Colts and Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms of the National League from to .-Chicago:...
2007		Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein	“The Poverty Business”	BusinessWeek
2007		Helen Benedict Helen Benedict Helen Benedict is a British-American novelist and journalist, best known for her writings on social injustice and the Iraq War.-Biography:...	“The Private War of Women Soldiers"	Salon.com
2007		Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail is an American journalist who is best known as one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 Iraq invasion. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 to 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches....	Iraq reporting	DahrJamailIraq.com
2007		Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on the use of private military companies. He is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, winner of a George Polk Book Award. He also serves as a...	"Blackwater Worldwide"	The Nation
2007		Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez	“The Mayan Way”	Daily Review of Hayward, California
2007	Cartooning	Marc Simont Marc Simont Marc Simont is an artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books. Marc, inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, began drawing at a very young age. Mr...		Lakeville [CT] Journal
2006	Lifetime Achievement	Amy Goodman Amy Goodman Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.-Early life:Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York...
2006		Julia Whitty	"The Fate of the Ocean,"	Mother Jones
2006		Corine Hegland Corine Hegland -Awards:* 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.The award is granted by Hunter College in New York City.Hegland won her award for a series of articles on the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba:-References:...	"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 John Sherffius John Sherffius is an editorial cartoonist, for the Boulder Daily Camera.He graduated from The University of California, Los Angeles.His cartoons have appeared in The Daily Bruin, the Ventura County Star, The St...		Boulder Daily Camera
2005	Lifetime Achievement	Molly Ivins Molly Ivins Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins was an American newspaper columnist, populist, political commentator, humorist and author.-Early life and education:Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas...
2005	Lifetime Achievement	Anthony Lewis Anthony Lewis Anthony Lewis is a prominent liberal intellectual, writing for The New York Times op-ed page and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He was previously a columnist for the Times . Before that he was London bureau chief , Washington, D.C...
2005		Gary Fields		Wall Street Journal
2005		Kevin Fagan, Brant Ward		San Francisco Chronicle
2005		Tracie McMillan		City Limits magazine
2005	Blogs	Juan Cole Juan Cole John Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole is an American scholar, public intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on...	“Informed Comment.”
2005	Cartooning	Kirk Anderson Kirk Anderson Kirk Anderson is a resident of Oakdale on the American TV soap opera, As the World Turns.- Character history :He was hired at Walsh Enterprises. He became attracted to Iva Snyder. His first assignment for Lucinda Walsh was to get the Snyder Farm. While Kirt wanted to kisse Iva, she didn't want him...
2004		Seymour M. Hersh	"Abu Graib"	The New Yorker
2004		Naomi Klein Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization.-Family:...		Harper's
2004		Frank Rich Frank Rich Frank Rich is an American essayist and op-ed columnist who wrote for The New York Times from 1980, when he was appointed its chief theatre critic, until 2011...		The New York Times
2004		Peter G. Gosselin	"New Deal"	Los Angeles Times
2004	Cartooning	Bill Day		Memphis Commercial-Appeal
2003		Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...	political commentary	The New York Times & The Nation
2003		Jake Bernstein Jake Bernstein Jake Bernstein is President of Network Press, Inc. in Santa Cruz, California. Bernstein claims expertise in seasonal trading and has developed methods of trading in futures markets, and has been a featured speaker at many investment conferences and trading seminars.-Publisher and author:Bernstein... & Dave Mann	"The Rise of the Machine"	The Texas Observer
2003		John Donnelly, Colin Nickerson, David Filipov, Raja Mishra	"Lives Lost"	The Boston Globe
2003		David Barstow David Barstow -Life:Born in Boston, he received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1986. Barstow has worked for The New York Times since 1999, and has been an investigative reporter there since 2002.He worked for The St... & Lowell Bergman Lowell Bergman Lowell A. Bergman is an American investigative reporter with The New York Times and a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline...	"Dangerous Business" & "When Workers Die"	The New York Times
2003		Mohamad Bazzi Mohamad Bazzi Mohamad Bazzi , is a Lebanese-American award-winning journalist. He is the former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday and a current faculty member of New York University. Bazzi was the 2007-2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations...	Iraq War	Newsday
2003	Cartooning	Mark Fiore Mark Fiore Mark Fiore is an American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons, whom the Wall Street Journal recently called the undisputed guru of the form....	Animated Political Cartooning
2002		William Finnegan William Finnegan William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is...		The New Yorker
2002		Seth Rosenfeld	FBI & Clark Kerr	San Francisco Chronicle
2002		Rebekah Denn	African-American and white students	Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2002		Katy Reckdahl	mistreatment of the homeless	Gambit Weekly
2002	Cartooning	Ted Rall Ted Rall Ted Rall is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States...	"Generalissimo El Busho"
2001		William Greider William Greider William Greider is an American journalist and author who writes primarily about economics.His most recent book is . Before that he published The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, which explores the basis and history of the corporation and how people can influence further...	“ regulatory takings ” movement	The Nation
2001		Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed	“Torn From the Land”	Associated Press
2001	Lifetime Achievement Award	Robert Sherrill Robert Sherrill Robert Sherrill is an American investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Nation, Texas Observer, and many other magazines over the years including Playboy, the New Republic and the New York Times Magazine....
2001	Cartooning	Dan Perkins	" Tom Tomorrow “
2001	Lifetime Achievement Award	Edward Sorel Edward Sorel Edward Sorel is an illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist, and graphic designer.Sorel is noted for his wavy pen-and-ink style, which he describes as "spontaneous direct drawing," since he does not use pencil or tracing for guidance...
2000		Ellen E. Schultz	“ pension-paring spree ”	Wall Street Journal
2000		Dale Maharidge Dale Maharidge Dale Maharidge is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist best known for his collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson.... , Michael Williamson	"This American Is Hungry"	George magazine
2000		Robert Scheer Robert Scheer Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation...		Los Angeles Times & The Nation
2000		Juan Gonzalez Juan Gonzalez (journalist) Juan González is an American progressive broadcast journalist and investigative reporter. He has also been a columnist for the New York Daily News since 1987...		New York Daily News
2000	Cartooning	Steve Brodner Steve Brodner Steve Brodner is an American satirical illustrator and caricaturist working for publications for a quarter century...	“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		Marcus Stern Marcus Stern Marcus Stern is the Associate Director of the American Repertory Theater as well as the A.R.T./MXAT's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Stern lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has directed numerous productions for the A.R.T... , Dana Wilkie, Dori Meinert, Toby Eckert	“America's Immigration Dilemma”	Copley News Service
1999	Lifetime Achievement Award	Jules Feiffer Jules Feiffer Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...
1999	Cartooning	Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...		New Yorker magazine
1998		Newsday	“ The Health Divide ”	Newsday
1998		Christopher Cook	“ Plucking Workers ”	The Progressive
1998		Donald L. Barlett Donald L. Barlett Donald L. Barlett is an American investigative journalist and author who collaborated with James B. Steele. According to The Washington Journalism Review they were a better investigative reporting team than even Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Together they have won two Pulitzer Prizes, two... , James B. Steele	corporate welfare	Time
1997	Commentary	Bob Herbert Bob Herbert Robert “Bob” Herbert is an American journalist op-ed columnist who wrote for The New York Times. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq war, racism and American political apathy towards race issues...	police brutality	The New York Times
1997	Environmental Reporting	Karl Grossman Karl Grossman Karl Grossman is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. For more than 45 years he has pioneered the combination of investigative reporting and environmental journalism in a variety of media...
1997	Socio-Economic Reporting	Marc Kaufman & Dan Stets	Philadelphia Board of City Trusts	Philadelphia Inquirer
1997	International Reporting	Eyal Press, Jennifer Washburn, Benn Terrall & Amy Goodman Amy Goodman Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.-Early life:Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York...	U.S.-Indonesia Society & Suharto	The Progressive
1996		Charles M. Sennott	“ Armed for Profit: The Selling of U.S. Weapons ”	Boston Globe
1996		Gary Webb Gary Webb Gary Webb was a Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist.Webb was best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book...	“Dark Alliance”	San Jose Mercury News
1996	Honorable Mention	Greg Davis	Maine's DeCoster Egg Farms.
1995		Barry Bearak Barry Bearak Barry Leon Bearak is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and professor of journalism who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He also taught journalism as a visiting professor at the Columbia University Graduate...	“The Waning Power of Workers”	Los Angeles Times
1995	Honorable mention	Nancy Stancill	“Paid in Pain”	Charlotte Observer
1995	Lifetime Achievement Award	John Oakes		The New York Times
1994		Allen Nairn	Haiti	The Nation
1994	Honorable mention	Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes or Into the Blue, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic, Baghdad Without A Map, and A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. His next book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked...	“ 9 to Nowhere: The Grim Side of ‘90s Growth Jobs ”	Wall Street Journal
1994	Honorable mention	Mike Hudson Mike Hudson Michael Hudson is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...	“Robbin' the Hood: How Wall Street Takes from the Poor and Gives to the Rich”	Mother Jones
1993		Eileen Welsome Eileen Welsome Eileen Welsome is an American journalist. She received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1994 while a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune. She was awarded the prize for her articles about the government's human radiation experiments conducted on unwilling and unknowing Americans during...	“The Plutonium Experiment”	Albuquerque Tribune
1993	Honorable mention	Paul Salopek Paul Salopek Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Salopek was raised in central Mexico.-Life:Salopek received a degree in environmental biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984...	“La Migra: The Border Patrol's Wall of Silence”	Texas Observer
1993	Honorable mention	New Orleans Times-Picayune	“ The Myth of Race”
1992		Mike Davis	“LA: 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		Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson was an American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, who won a National Book Award for her book about the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers....	“Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land.”
1991	Honorable mention	Ellen Ray, William Schaap	press assumptions and practices	Lies of Our Times
1991	Honorable mention	Peter Sussman	Lompoc Federal Penitentiary	The San Francisco Chronicle
1990		Kathy Kadane	CIA's role in Indonesia	State News Service, The Washington Post
1990	Honorable Mention	Lawrence Wechsler, Alan Nairn, Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and of the Cuba Documentation Project.He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the FOIA, relating to the history of the U.S. Government's support for the Pinochet... , William Finnegan William Finnegan William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is...	“Talk of the Town” pieces on Central America	New Yorker

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