The Ridenhour Prizes . The Nation Institute and the Fertel Foundation have set up annual Ridenaura Prizes for those who have shown courage and jeopardized their reputation for consolidating democracy.
The award initially had three nominations - “for courage”, “for truth” and the book, since 2011 a fourth was added - “documentary”.
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Ron Ridenaur
In 1969, the Vietnam War veteran Ron Ridenaur sent letters to the US Congress and the Pentagon in which he tried to draw attention to the tragedy that happened a year earlier in the South Vietnamese village of Songmi .
He later became a journalist, author of high-profile investigations, but did not wait for a prestigious award and died prematurely at the age of 52.
Ridenaura Prize Laureates
For Courage
- 2004 - Daniel Elsberg - who broadcasts the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War
- 2005 - Seymour Hirsch
- 2006 - Gloria Steinem
- 2007 - Jimmy Carter
- 2008 - Bill Moyers
- 2009 - Bob Herbert
- 2010 - Howard Zinn
- 2011 - Russ Feingold
- 2012 - John Lewis
- 2013 - James Hansen
- 2014 - Frederick A.O. Schwartz, ml.
- 2015 - James Risen
- 2016 - Jamie Calvin
Book Award
- 2004 - Deborah Scroggins
- 2005 - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- 2006 - Anthony Shadid
- 2007 - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- 2008 - James Scurlock
- 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 Sufan , 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 Leovi , for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
For Truth
- 2004 - Joseph Wilson
- 2005 - Kristen Breitweiser
- 2006 - Rick Piltz
- 2007 - Donald Vance
- 2008 - Matthew Diaz
- 2009 - Thomas Tamm
- 2010 - Matthew Hoch
- 2011 - Thomas Andrews Drake
- 2012 - Eileen Foster and Daniel Davis
- 2013 - Jose Antonio Vargas
- 2014 - Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras
- 2015 - Aisha Elbasri
- 2016 - Mona Hannah Attisha
Documentary
- 2011 - Julia Bacha , Ronit Avni and Rala Salameh , for Badras
- 2012 - Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon , for Semper Fi: Always Faithful
- 2013 - Kirby Dick and Amy Sieering , for the Invisible War [1]
- 2014 - Don Porter , for the Gideon Army
- 2015 - Laura Poytras , for Citizenfour. True Snowden
- 2016 - Joshua Oppenheimer , for a look of silence
Notes
- ↑ Lee, Diana 2013 Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize Winner Announced (link not available) . The Nation Institute (February 22, 2013). Date of treatment February 28, 2013. Archived March 4, 2016.
Links
- Award for the brave Michael Dorfman