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Annual awards
The Ridenhour Prizes are awards in four categories given annually in recognition of those "who persevere in acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society".
History
The awards are presented by
The Nation Institute and
The Fertel Foundation in recognition of
Ron Ridenhour , the
Vietnam War veteran who exposed the
My Lai Massacre . Each prize carries a $10,000 stipend. The prizes were first awarded in 2004.
Prize categories
The Ridenhour Courage Prize
The Ridenhour Book Prize
The Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize
The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize (since 2011)
Past winners
The Ridenhour Courage Prize
The Ridenhour Book Prize
2004:
Deborah Scroggins , for Emma's War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil – A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan
2005:
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc , for Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
2006:
Anthony Shadid , for Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
2007:
Rajiv Chandrasekaran , for
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone ,
2008:
James Scurlock , for Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy Credit
2009:
Jane Mayer , for
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into A War on American Ideals
2010:
Joe Sacco , for
Footnotes in Gaza
2011:
Wendell Potter , for Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans
2012:
Ali H. Soufan , for The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al‐Qaeda
2013:
Seth Rosenfeld , for Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
2014:
Sheri Fink , for
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2015:
Anand Gopal , for No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes
2016:
Jill Leovy , for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
2017:
Heather Ann Thompson , for
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
2018: Lauren Markham, for The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
2019:
Eliza Griswold , for Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
2020:
Chanel Miller for
Know My Name: A Memoir
2021:
Claudio Saunt for
Unworthy Republic: The dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian Territory
2022:
Heather McGhee for The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize
The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize
2011:
Julia Bacha ,
Ronit Avni and Rula Salameh, for
Budrus
[2]
2012: Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon, for
Semper Fi: Always Faithful
2013:
Kirby Dick and
Amy Ziering , for
The Invisible War
[3]
[4]
2014:
Dawn Porter , for
Gideon's Army
2015:
Laura Poitras , for
Citizenfour
2016:
Joshua Oppenheimer , for
The Look of Silence
2017:
Sonia Kennebeck , for
National Bird
2018: Joe Piscatella, for
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
2019:
Alexandria Bombach , for
On Her Shoulders
2020:
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, for
One Child Nation
2021:
Ramona Diaz , for
A Thousand Cuts
2022:
Stanley Nelson Jr. and Traci A. Curry, for
Attica
Special Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction
References
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