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The Call for Entries for the 2025 Hillman Prizes is now closed. Deadline Jan 30, 2025.

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2023 Canadian Hillman Prize winners

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The 2025 Canadian Hillman Prize winners are announced!

The Call for Entries for the 2025 U.S Hillman Prizes is now closed. The deadline to enter was Jan 30, 2025. The prize ceremony will be Tuesday May 13, 2025.

The 5th annual ’Reporting the U.S Workplace’ program at the Newmark J-school in NYC was held January 23-24 2025. Please email us if you’d like to be placed on the email list for the 2026 program.

The 2025 SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice will be presented at the 2025 Hillman Prize ceremony.

Apply here for a labor and workplace reporting grant. Rolling deadline. 

Hillman judge Katrina vanden Heuvel on the urgent necesssity of public-interest journalism in The Washington Post

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