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Manik, Greenhouse, and Yardley win the May Sidney Award for their coverage of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh

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May, 2013

Julfikar Ali ManikSteven GreenhouseJim Yardley

Manik, Greenhouse, and Yardley win the May Sidney Award for their coverage of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in BangladeshContinue reading...

Joe and Harry Gantz Win April Sidney for “American Winter,” an HBO documentary about middle-class families falling into poverty

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April, 2013

Joe GantzHarry Gantz

Joe and Harry Gantz won the April Sidney Award for American Winter, a documentary that follows eight Portland, Oregon-area families struggling to survive the winter of 2011/2012 in the grip of the Great Recession.Continue reading...

Arizona Republic Wins February Sidney for Exposing a Faulty HPV Test Linked to False-Negative Results and Undetected Cancers

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February, 2013

Bob Ortega

Bob Ortega of the Arizona Republic wins the February Sidney Award for sounding the alarm about a faulty test for HPV, the virus that causes most cervical cancer. Each year, about 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and about 4,000 die of the disease. Continue reading...

Bloomberg News Wins January Sidney for A Tale of Two McDonald's

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January, 2013

Leslie Patton

Leslie Patton of Bloomberg News wins the January Sidney Award for a hard-hitting joint profile of a McDonald’s fry cook and the company’s CEO. This "Tale of Two McDonald’s" shows how the explosive growth of fast food has generated fat profits for executives and shareholders but left workers behind.Continue reading...

Josh Eidelson of The Nation Wins December Sidney for Coverage of Historic Walmart Strike

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December, 2012

Josh Eidelson

Josh Eidelson of The Nation wins the December Sidney Award for his coverage of the historic Black Friday strike at Walmart and the ongoing strike wave moving through Walmart’s supply chain.Continue reading...

Jina Moore of the Christian Science Monitor Wins November Sidney for Inquiry Into American Poverty

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November, 2012

Jina Moore

Jina Moore, regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor, won the November Sidney Award for Below The Line: Poverty In America, a portrait of poverty as it is measured by official statistics and lived by real people.Continue reading...

Reuters Team Wins Sidney Award for Exposé on Lobbying and Childhood Obesity

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May, 2012

The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced today that Duff Wilson and Janet Roberts of Reuters have won the May Sidney Award for their special feature, "How Washington Went Soft on Childhood Obesity."Continue reading...

Trymaine Lee Wins April Sidney

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April, 2012

Trymaine Lee has won the April Sidney Award for his coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting. Lee, a senior reporter at the Huffington Post, spearheaded his site's reporting effort, which helped turn the killing of Martin into a national cause.

On Feb. 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old self-appointed neighborhood watch captain who claims he shot the unarmed black youth in self-defense.Continue reading...

Ian Frazier Wins March Sidney

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March, 2012

New Yorker writer Ian Frazier won the March Sidney Award for his account of the strike at the Stella D'oro biscuit factory and its subsequent closure after being a fixture in the Bronx since 1930.Continue reading...