The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism has been awarded since 1990 to honor Hunter College Professor, James Aronson. 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. The Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience Award is named for his wife, (Blanche Mary) Grambs Aronson. 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.
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 "Slowpoke Comics" 2008 Lifetime Achievement Les Payne Newsday2008 E.J. Graff "The Lie We Love" Foreign Policy 2008 Joseph Huff-Hannon "Facing Foreclosure" The Indypendent2008 Nick Turse "A My Lai a Month" The Nation2008 Blog Award Danny Schechter NewsDissector.org.2008 Cartooning Ed Stein 2007 Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein "The Poverty Business" BusinessWeek2007 Helen Benedict "The Private War of Women Soldiers" Salon.com 2007 Dahr Jamail Iraq reporting DahrJamailIraq.com2007 Jeremy Scahill "Blackwater Worldwide" The Nation2007 Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez "The Mayan Way" Daily Review of Hayward, California2007 Cartooning Marc Simont Lakeville [CT] Journal2006 Lifetime Achievement Amy Goodman 2006 Julia Whitty "The Fate of the Ocean" Mother Jones 2006 Corine Hegland "Guantanamo's Grip" National Journal2006 Judy Pasternak "Blighted Homeland" Los Angeles Times2006 Tim Collie, Mike Stocker, Jim Amon "Orphans of AIDS" South Florida-Sentinel2006 Cartooning John Sherffius Boulder Daily Camera 2005 Lifetime Achievement Molly Ivins2005 Lifetime Achievement Anthony Lewis 2005 Gary Fields Wall Street Journal2005 Kevin Fagan, Brant Ward San Francisco Chronicle2005 Tracie McMillan City Limits magazine2005Blogs Juan Cole "Informed Comment" 2005 Cartooning Kirk Anderson 2004 Seymour M. Hersh "Abu Graib" The New Yorker2004 Naomi Klein Harper's2004 Frank Rich The New York Times2004 Peter G. Gosselin "New Deal" Los Angeles Times2004 Cartooning Bill Day Memphis Commercial-Appeal 2003 Paul Krugman political commentary The New York Times & The Nation2003 Jake Bernstein & Dave Mann "The Rise of the Machine" The Texas Observer2003 John Donnelly, Colin Nickerson, David Filipov, Raja Mishra "Lives Lost" The Boston Globe2003 David Barstow & Lowell Bergman "Dangerous Business" & "When Workers Die" The New York Times2003 Mohamad Bazzi Iraq War Newsday2003 Cartooning Mark Fiore Animated Political Cartooning 2002 William Finnegan"Leasing the Rain" 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 "Generalissimo El Busho" 2001 William Greider "regulatory takings" movement The Nation 2001 Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed "Torn From the Land" Associated Press 2001 Lifetime Achievement Robert Sherrill 2001 CartooningDan Perkins "Tom Tomorrow" 2001 Lifetime Achievement Edward Sorel 2000 Ellen E. Schultz "pension-paring spree" Wall Street Journal 2000 Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson "This American Is Hungry" George magazine 2000 Robert Scheer 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 Marcus Stern, Dana Wilkie, Dori Meinert, Toby Eckert "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 Christopher Cook "Plucking Workers" The Progressive 1998 Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele corporate welfare Time 1997 CommentaryBob Herbert police brutality The New York Times 1997 Environmental Reporting Karl Grossman 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 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 Allen Nairn Haiti The Nation 1994 Honorable mention Tony Horwitz "9 to Nowhere: The Grim Side of '90s Growth Jobs" Wall Street Journal 1994 Honorable mention Mike Hudson "Robbin' the Hood: How Wall Street Takes from the Poor and Gives to the Rich" Mother Jones 1993 Eileen Welsome "The Plutonium Experiment" Albuquerque Tribune 1993 Honorable mention Paul Salopek "“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 "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 Gloria Emerson "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, William Finnegan "Talk of the Town" pieces on Central America New Yorker
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