# Premi Ridenhour

I Premi Ridenhour comprendono ricompense in quattro categorie e sono assegnati ogni anno a coloro "che perseverano in atti di 'truth-telling' che proteggono l'interesse pubblico, promuovono la giustizia sociale, o illuminano una visione più giusta della società". I premi sono conferiti dal The Nation Institute e dalla Fondazione Fertel in onore di Ron Ridenhour, il veterano della guerra del Vietnam che raccontò del Massacro di My Lai. Ogni premio comporta un sussidio di 10000$. I premi furono assegnati per la prima volta nel 2004.
Le categorie di riconoscimenti sono:
* Il Ridenhour Courage Prize
* Il Ridenhour Book Prize
* Il Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize
* Il Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize (dal 2011)

## Vincitori delle scorse edizioni
### Ridenhour Courage Prize

* 2004: Daniel Ellsberg
* 2005: Seymour Hersh
* 2006: Gloria Steinem
* 2007: Jimmy Carter
* 2008: Bill Moyers
* 2009: Bob Herbert
* 2010: Howard Zinn (postumo)
* 2011: Russ Feingold
* 2012: John Lewis
* 2013: James Hansen
* 2014: Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
* 2015: James Risen
* 2016: Jamie Kalven

### Ridenhour Book Prize

* 2004: Deborah Scroggins, per 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, per Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
* 2006: Anthony Shadid, per Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
* 2007: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, per Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone,
* 2008: James Scurlock, per Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy Credit
* 2009: Jane Mayer, per The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into A War on American Ideals
* 2010: Joe Sacco, per Footnotes in Gaza
* 2011: Wendell Potter, per Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans
* 2012: Ali H. Soufan, per The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al‐Qaeda
* 2013: Seth Rosenfeld, per Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
* 2014: Sheri Fink, per Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
* 2015: Anand Gopal, per No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes
* 2016: Jill Leovy, per Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

### 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 e Daniel Davis
* 2013: Jose Antonio Vargas
* 2014: Edward Snowden e Laura Poitras
* 2015: Aicha Elbasri
* 2016: Mona Hanna-Attisha

### Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize

* 2011: Julia Bacha, Ronit Avni e Rula Salameh, per Budrus
* 2012: Rachel Libert e Tony Hardmon, per Semper Fi: Always Faithful
* 2013: Kirby Dick e Amy Ziering, per The Invisible War
* 2014: Dawn Porter, per Gideon's Army
* 2015: Laura Poitras, per Citizenfour
* 2016: Joshua Oppenheimer, per The Look of Silence

### Premio speciale Ridenhour per essersi distinti nella documentazione giornalistica

* 2009: Nick Turse