Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners
[{"sender": "The Sidney Hillman Foundation", "recipients": ["Michael Wolff"], "timestamp": "Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:45 PM", "subject": "Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners", "body": "Congratulations to the 2019 Hillman Prize recipients!\n\nSidney Hillman Foundation Names Winners of 2019 Prizes\nfor Journalism in Service of the Common Good\n\nReuters, NBC News and MSNBC, ProPublica Receive Honors; Adam Serwer to\nreceive Opinion & Analysis Prize\n\nNEW YORK — The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday winners of the 69th annual\nHillman Prizes, recognizing a Reuters expose of slum-like living conditions on U.S military\nbases, the Miami Herald's investigation into Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's sweetheart deal with\nserial sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, and NBC News and MSNBC's reporting on the Trump\nAdministration's family separation policy, among other standout reporting in service of the\ncommon good.\n\nHannah Dreier of ProPublica won a Hillman Prize for reporting that showed how the\ngovernment's bungled crackdown on MS-13 has torn apart the lives of Latino immigrants. The\nAtlantic's Adam Serwer, who has emerged as a defining voice of the Trump era, won for his\nessays on racism and Trump's political movement, and Anna Clark won for her book on the\nFlint water crisis.\n\nThis year's prizes were judged by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb,\nReuters' Al Freedman, the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, the American Prospect's Harold\nMeyerson and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel.\n\nThe 2019 winners of the Hillman Prizes are:\n• Newspaper — Miami Herald, Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot: Perversion of Justice\n• Magazine — ProPublica with New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New\nYork Times Magazine, Hannah Dreier: Trapped in Gangland\n• Web — Reuters, Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson:\nAmbushed at Home\n• Broadcast — NBC News and MSNBC, Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley: Torn Apart: Crisis at the Border\n• Opinion & Analysis — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic\n• Book — Anna Clark: The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy, Metropolitan Books\n\nReporting by this year's prize winners has had significant positive impact, including:\n• Reversal of the Trump administration's \"Zero Tolerance\" family separation policy\n• Three federal investigations, new legislation, widespread repairs, and a $386 million\nemergency program to inspect military housing for hazards\n• The exposure of pervasive bias and negligence by Long Island police, leading to federal\nand local investigations and reforms\n\nThis year's honorees follow in the trailblazing tradition of past winners ranging from Murray\nKempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his\ncritical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017\nnewspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump's sexual harassment and\nmismanagement of his foundation.\n\nThe Hillman Prizes are open to journalists and subjects globally for any work widely accessible\nto a U.S. audience. Winners will be awarded a $5,000 prize at the Hillman Foundation's annual\nceremony in New York City on May 7."}, {"sender": "Michael Wolff", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Apr 23, 2019, at 8:51 AM", "subject": "Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners", "body": "Another big prize for Miami Herald."}, {"sender": "Steve Bannon", "recipients": ["Michael Wolff"], "timestamp": "4/23/2019 12:57:52 PM", "subject": "Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners", "body": "Pile on"}]