The Ridenhour Prizes

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The Ridenhour Prizes have been awarded annually in several categories since 2004 to people who serve the common good through their educational work and who work for greater social justice or a more just society. The prizes, each endowed with US $ 10,000, were donated by the Fertel Foundation (the Fertel Foundation is based on a will of Ruth Fertel, founder of the restaurant chain Ruth's Chris Steak House ) and the non-profit organization The Nation Institute (stands the left-liberal weekly The Nation close). The name of the awards is reminiscent of the American Vietnam War - veteran , whistleblower and journalist Ronald Ridenhour (1946–1998), who made a decisive contribution to the fact that the My Lai massacre committed by US troops during the Vietnam War became known and investigated. The prize money is mainly financed by donations.

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

  • The Ridenhour Courage Prize
  • The Ridenhour Book Prize
  • The Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling
  • The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize (since 2011)

Award 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 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
  • 2018: Lauren Markham for The Far Away Brothers
  • 2019: Eliza Griswold for Amity and Prosperity

The Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize

The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize

Special prices

  • 2009: Nick Turse - The Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Ridenhour Prizes quote:
    "The annual Ridenhour Prizes recognize those who persevere in acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society."
    Ridenhour.org , last accessed on April 11th 2014