HOUSE OVERSIGHT 021225 Hannah Dreier of ProPublica won a Hillman Prize for reporting that showed how the government's bungled crackdown on MS-13 has torn apart the lives of Latino immigrants. The Atlantic's Adam Serwer, who has emerged as a defining voice of the Trump era, won for his essays on racism and Trump's political movement, and Anna Clark won for her book on the Flint water crisis. This year's prizes were judged by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb, Reuters' Alix Freedman, the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, the American Prospect's Harold Meyerson and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel. The 2019 winners of the Hillman Prizes are: Newspaper — Miami Herald, Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot: Perversion of Justice Magazine — ProPublica with New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New York Times Magazine, Hannah Dreier: Trapped in Gangland Web — Reuters, Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson: Ambushed at Home Broadcast — NBC News and MSNBC, Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley: Torn Apart: Crisis at the Border Opinion & Analysis — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic Book — Anna Clark: The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy, Metropolitan Books Reporting by this year's prize winners has had significant positive impact, including: Reversal of the Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" family separation policy Three federal investigations, new legislation, widespread repairs, and a $386 million emergency program to inspect military housing for hazards The exposure of pervasive bias and negligence by Long Island police, leading to federal and local investigations and reforms This year's honorees follow in the trailblazing tradition of past winners ranging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fa