James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism

The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism "was established by Hunter College in 1990 to honor the distinguished Hunter College professor of journalism and editor from 1949 to 1967 of the crusading news weekly, The National Guardian.

"Before founding The National Guardian with Cedric Belfrage and Jack McManus, Aronson worked on the staffs of the Boston Evening Transcript, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Post and The New York Times.

"A graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Aronson wrote four books, including The Press and the Cold War, published by Monthly Review Press."


 * Past Winners

Committee Members
Accessed January 2010:


 * Grambs Miller Aronson
 * David Alm
 * Christopher Cory
 * Steven Gorelick
 * Marya Grambs
 * Joanne Grant (in memorium)
 * Kathy Kadane
 * Philip Kay
 * Peter Parisi
 * Robin Reisig
 * Cindy Rodríguez
 * Naomi Rosenblum
 * John J. Simon
 * Alice Slater
 * Ida Susser
 * Blanca Vázquez
 * Diana Powell Ward