The Ridenhour Courage Prize • 2004:
Daniel Ellsberg • 2005:
Seymour Hersh • 2006:
Gloria Steinem • 2007:
Jimmy Carter • 2008:
Bill Moyers • 2009:
Bob Herbert • 2010:
Howard Zinn (posthumous) • 2011:
Russ Feingold • 2012:
John Lewis • 2013:
James Hansen • 2014:
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. • 2015:
James Risen • 2016:
Jamie Kalven • 2017:
Anna Deavere Smith • 2018:
Tarana Burke • 2019:
George Soros (donated all of prize money to
Hungarian Spectrum) • 2020:
Denis Hayes • 2021:
José Andrés • 2022:
Anita Hill • 2024:
Jamie Raskin 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 • 2024:
Lea Ypi for
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History The Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize • 2004:
Joseph Wilson • 2005:
Kristen Breitweiser • 2006:
Rick S. Piltz • 2007:
Donald Vance • 2008:
Matthew Diaz • 2009:
Thomas Tamm • 2010: Matthew Hoh • 2011:
Thomas Andrews Drake • 2012:
Eileen Foster and
Daniel L. Davis • 2013:
Jose Antonio Vargas • 2014:
Edward Snowden and
Laura Poitras • 2015:
Aicha Elbasri • 2016:
Mona Hanna-Attisha • 2017: Daniela Vargas • 2018:
Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto • 2019: Dr. Scott Allen, Dr. Pamela McPherson, and Scott Shuchart • 2020: Dr.
Rick A. Bright • 2021:
Cariol Horne • 2022:
Anika Collier Navaroli • 2024: Dawn Wooten
The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize • 2011:
Julia Bacha,
Ronit Avni and Rula Salameh, for
Budrus • 2012: Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon, for
Semper Fi: Always Faithful • 2013:
Kirby Dick and
Amy Ziering, for
The Invisible War • 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 • 2024: Emma Tildes and
Tia Lessin for
The Janes Special Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction • 2009:
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