Alumni | May 17, 2011

Journalists Tim Noah and E. J. Dionne Jr. win Hillman Prizes

Recognized for reporting on inequality and for career achievement

The Sidney Hillman Foundation, which confers annual prizes for investigative journalism and public-interest reporting, gave its 2011 prize for magazine journalism to Tim Noah '80, of Slate, for a 10-part series on income inequality titled "The Great Divergence." Noah was an Undergraduate Fellow of Harvard Magazine.

Separately, Washington Post columnist and author E. J. Dionne Jr. '73 was recognized with a Hillman Award for Career Achievement.

Among the judges for this year's Hillman Prize were Hendrik Hertzberg '65, K '85, senior editor of the New Yorker, profiled here, and photojournalist Susan Meiselas, Ed.M. '71, profiled here, in Harvard Magazine features.

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