Our pal Digby collects her Hillman Prize, along with a bunch of other people who did memorable progressive journalism in the past year

At last night's Hillman Awards festivities, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, presented Heather (Digby) Parton with this year's prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.

by Ken

If you're going to be hanging out with a horde of folks for the giving out (and receiving) of prizes, I suppose you can't do much better than a crowd of -- at least theoretically -- unreconstructed lefties like last night's festivities for the bestowing of the 2014 Hillman Awards, imbued with the spirit of the great labor organizer and leader Sidney Hillman, a stalwart of the time when a union wasn't just about labor-management negotiations but about improving the lives of its members and even the country as a whole, through housing and social-welfare programs.

Some of us were there particularly to share in the thrill of our pal Digby receiving the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and a thrill it was.



But the honorees were a pretty classy bunch, who'd edged out a bunch of other competitors who undoubtedly also did some tough and memorable work in 2013.



You can read about what they did here.

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