The Sidney Hillman Foundation emphatically supports journalist Jamie Kalven of the Invisible Institute on his courageous refusal to name his sources. Kalven has been called to testify at a preliminary hearing in the first-degree murder trial of the Chicago police officer who shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. Kalven’s sources told him that dashboard video of the shooting didn’t match the official story, and he is determined to protect their anonymity. This kind of anonymity has been derided of late but is essential to breaking the kinds of stories that, like the case of Laquan McDonald, pit powerful institutions against comparatively powerless individuals.

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring excellence in journalism that advances social and economic justice. Kalven received the 2017 Hillman Prize for Web Journalism for his coverage of corruption in the Chicago police department. We are very proud to see him continue to champion the right of journalists to report the news and the right of Chicagoans to fair and transparent policing.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent, The Atlantic
Jelani Cobb, professor, Columbia Journalism School and staff writer, The New Yorker
Alix Freedman, Global Editor, Ethics and Standards, Reuters
Hendrik Hertzberg, staff writer, The New Yorker
Harold Meyerson, executive editor, The American Prospect
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation
Lindsay Beyerstein, Lead Writer, The Sidney Hillman Foundation
Alexandra Lescaze, Executive Director, The Sidney Hillman Foundation
Bruce Raynor, President, The Sidney Hillman Foundation, President Emeritus Workers United, SEIU
Mark Levinson, Chief Economist, SEIU
Tom Robbins, journalist, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Bill Keller, Editor-in-Chief, The Marshall Project
David Dayen, journalist
Melissa del Bosque, journalist
Brendan Keefe, Chief Investigative Reporter, WXIA11Alive Atlanta
Rick Perlstein, Historian, journalist
Alysia Tate, former Editor & Publisher, The Chicago Reporter
Eyal Press, Journalist and Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Harry Backlund, Director of Operations, City Bureau
Heather Digby Parton; Salon.com
Judy Levey, Executive Director, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Roger Hodge, Deputy Editor, The Intercept
Vidura Jang Bahadur,Mellon Sawyer Fellow, University of Chicago
Carol Marin,Director, DePaul Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence
Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project On Government Oversight
Ira Katznelson, professor of political science and history, Columbia University
Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter, The Clarion-Ledger
Dick Simpson, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jim Spencer, Washington correspondent, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Frances Kissling, President, Center for Health, Ethics and Policy
Alison Flowers, Invisible Institute
Jodi Jacobson, REWIRE
Joan Walsh, journalist
Steven Hill, journalist
Lynn Burgess, Producer, CBC
Christopher Shay, senior editor, The Nation
Taya Kitman, Executive Director & CEO, along with staff at The Nation Institute
​Khalid Ahmed Chaudry, Ambassador and Deputy Chairman Supreme Council, International Human Rights Commission, Netherlands
Sister Alison McCrary, SFCC, Esq., Executive Director, National Police Accountability Project
R. Alden Feldon, Director of Programs & Board Member, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Sean Swint, Medscape Medical News
Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood
Hugh J. Martin, Ph.D, Professor, Ohio University, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
Arlis Alikaj, ‘Interview’, Albania
Linda Steiner, Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Ali Winston, Reporter, The Investigative Fund
Levi Pulkkinen, SeattlePI senior editor
Zach D Roberts, Visu.News and GregPalast.com
Tony Bartelme, projects reporter, The (Charleston, SC) Post and Courier
Mary Ann Weston, Northwestern
Jeffrey Dvorkin, Lecturer and Director, Journalism Program, Dept of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto/Scarborough
Helen Benedict, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Adele M. Stan, columnist, The American Prospect
Alan Maass, editor, SocialistWorker.org
Chris Chafe, President and Co-Founding Partner, GrowthSquared
Lisa Rudman, Executive Director, Making Contact 
Raheem Hosseini, News Editor, Sacramento News & Review
Jonathan Marshall, assistant professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University 
Linda Perry, WBAI
Joshua Holland, Contributor to The Nation 
Elizabeth Lazar, contributor at Huffington Post
Jeanne Kracher, Executive Director, Crossroads Fund
Dr. Vinni Hall, Professor of Education
Dr. Grace Hall, Research Analysts @CDC
Margaret Morganroth Guilette, Resident Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis
Michael Eisenscher, National Coordinator Emeritus, U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW)
Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor Emerita, University of Delaware
Michael Schwartz, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus, Founding Director, College of Global Studies, Past President, University Senate, Stony Brook University
Joseph Persky, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
Zeeshan Javaid, Reporter, 92News HD TV/Newspaper
Martins Ifijeh, Health Correspondent, THISDAY Newspapers,  Nigeria
Frank Carini, Editor/co-founder, ecoRI News
Tom Tresser, Civic educator, Public defender
Randy Fertel, co-founder, Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Truth-telling
Maura Stephens, independent journalist; associate director of Park Center for Independent Media (ret.)
Richard Rowley, Co-Founder, DIVIDED FILMS
Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology, Director, The Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University
Melody Moezzi, Author, Attorney, Activist & Visiting Professor of Creative Nonfiction at UNC Wilmington
David Robinson, Managing Director, Upturn
Merrill Goozner, Editor Emeritus, Modern Healthcare
Frank Gibney
Katha Pollitt, journalist
Kai Wright, journalist
Monica Melton, journalist
Jeremy Borden, journalist
Sarah Macaraeg, journalist
Sally Duros, journalist
Justin Glawe, journalist
Eva Nagao, Exoneration Project
Mike Siviwe Elliott, Chair, Labor Committee, Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston, Founder & President, The Coalition for a New Chicago
Mike Holman, Executive Director, Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund
Refuse Fascism - Chicago
Rev. Julie A. Less, Board Member: The Blue Gargoyle, University Church, Chicago
John Conroy, Senior Investigator, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions, University of Chicago
Forrest Stuart, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Karen Gouze, PhD., Director of Training in Psychology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Ron Baiman Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate Business Administration, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
Lawrence H. Radford, Writer and Volunteer with the Columbus Coaliton for the Homeless and Street Speech
Bernard Owen Brown, Retired Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, The University of Chicago
W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor. English, Art History, and Cinema, University of Chicago
Lisa Ruddick, Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
Rev. Dr. Alice Hunt, President, Chicago Theological Seminary
Blake D. Bunting, Paralegal, LOEVY & LOEVY
Don Q. Lamb, Robert A. Millikan, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus University of Chicago
Stanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Director, Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies
Jim McDonough, Executive Director, Alphawood Foundation
Milton W. Cole, Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus, Penn State University
Maryse Richards, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago
Carol Evans, Founder and President Emeritus, Working Mother Media
Samuel R. Guard, former Metropolitian Studies Director, Illinois Institute of Technology
Leslie Simon, Interdisciplinary Studies Instructor, City College of San Francisco
Lester Spence, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Carlin Meyer, Professor Emeritus & Arbitrator, New York Law School
Miriam Frank, NYU
Donald Palmer, Professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis
Deborah Nelson, J.D., Associate Professor of Investigative Journalism
Philip Merrill, College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Magali Sarfatti Larson, Professor emerita of Sociology, Temple University, Philadelphia
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University
Bill Brown, University of Chicago
Andy Carter, Roosevelt University
A. Laurie Palmer, Artist and Professor, University of CA, Santa Cruz
Carole Travis, prisoner rights attorney, Chair of KPFA Local Station Board
Ann K. Barnds, SEIU Local 73
Svetlana Bachevanova, publisher of FotoEvidence
Tyson Smith, Ph. D., Senior program manager, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor, CCNY
Mario Kaiser, writer
Richard Stephenson, MD
Samantha Lash
Teresa M Edlin
Grant M. Courtney
Carlos Mancur
Peter Burgess
Anas Aremeyaro
Maria T. Ayala, MUPP
Teresa M Edlin
Jennifer Coufal
Marc Monaghan
Owen Fiss
Adrien Faulknre, EdD
Anne Scheetz
Pam Cytrynbaum
Nancy Bothne
Blye Faust
Kathleen O’Donnell
Susan Rogers, MD
Giudi Weiss, activist, Chicago
Yohance Joseph Lacour
Alan R. Shapiro
Jackie Jablonski, Ithaca NY
Louise Dooley
Cameron Gearen, author
June Zaccone
James Simeone
Dorothy Freedman
John Culhane
Kalyani Chadha
Jennifer Peat
Daniel Millstone
Alice Mulberry
Frana Allen, Educator
Margo Jefferson, writer
Carole Travis
Suzan Pinsof, Chicago
Richard Sullivan, Chicago
David H. Light
William Quimby
Elizabeth Helsinger
Eugene P. Coyle, Ph.D.
Ted Wolner
Deborah DeMichael
Bonnie L. Wishne
Deborah E. Bennett, concerned Chicago resident
Ellen Morrison
Gordon Waldron
Jeffrey J. Neslund
Kathleen J. Cummings
Tracye A Matthews
Paul Groundwater
Neil Rest
Barbara Reynolds
Liz Milazzo
Billie Rosman
Bernardine Dohrn
Susan McMillen
Alex Kotlowitz   
Lorrie Lieber
Richard A. Rosengarten
Viveca L. Coleman
Thara Nagarajan
Josh Even
Keith Brooks
Jacob Rierson
Ronni Kern
David Ginsburg, MD, FACP
Myrna Knepler
Hilary Bok
Eric A. Gordon
Constance White
Amy Robinson Staples
Luli Buxton
Allison Benedikt, executive editor, Slate
Julia Turner, Editor-in-Chief, Slate
Carla Murphy, journalist
Jacob Weisberg, Slate magazine
Molly Young, New York Times Magazine
David Bornstein, journalist
Nina Berman, associate professor, Columbia Journalism School
Yvette Meltzer, Positive Outcomes
Maira Khwaja, Invisible Institute
Patricia Crawford
Jory Soderman
Mikael Karlström, Chicago
Bill Vaccaro
Pat Vaccaro
Gabriel Marquez
David Turner
Stella Kramer
Meg Handler
Margo Patterson
Allison Greenwald
gigi pritzker
Bonnie Britt
Loretta Kane
Maria Makela, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Visual Studies, California College of the Arts
Richard Rosengarten, University of Chicago Divinity School
Alan Shapiro, University of North Carolina
Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicago
Tracye Matthews, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago
Owen Fiss, Yale Law School
John Bouman, President, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Marvin Hoffman, etired educator, University of Chicago
Rosellen Brown, writer
Dawn Turner (Trice), journalist
Susan Gzesh, Pozen Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago
Lawrence James, Jr.
Sunny Fischer, National Public Housing Museum
Trevor Timm, Executive Director, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Maggie Bowman, Kartemquin Films
Joanna Lakatos, Kartemquin Films
Fennell Doremus, documentary film producer
Allison Rickard, In These Times
Lisa Young
Jean Quinlan, Chicago
Gordan Quinn, Kartemquin Films, Founder and Artistic Director
Noah Isackson, journalist, journalism professor
Susan Rogers
Richard Stephenson
Judi Hashmall
Michael Walters, Math Professor, PCCC; Writing Professor, Berkeley College and HCCC
Rebecca Cammisa, Filmmaker
Lisa Yun Lee, University of Illinois and National Public Housing Museum
Kate Bronfenbrenner, Senior Lecturer, Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Mark Karlin, Journalist
Jane M Hussein Saks, Project &
Bette Cerf Hill, Founder, Printers Row Book Fair
Diane Wachtell, Executive Director, The New Press
Deborah Epstein
Nancy Gist
Carol Moseley Braun, US Senator, Ambassador, ret
Martha Spaulding, magazine editor
Tor Newman
James Doyle, Indigent defense lawyer and author
Esteban Steven Escobar, President and Executive Editor In Chief at Diversity News Magazine, CEO and President at Diversity News Publications
Palika Makam
Lisa Page, writer and Professor of English, George Washington University
Gaziza Baituova
Thomas Lenz, Evanston
Shapearl Wells, The Courtney Copeland Memorial Foundation
Kimberly Faulkner-Starks
Elizabeth Moriarty, Minister and Organizer in Chicago
Norma Marin           
Jackie Zammuto, WITNESS
David Knight, writer and doctoral student, University of Chicago
Mark Lenz
Shibani Mahtani, The Wall Street Journal
Yanilda Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Kate Morrison, retired teacher
Elaine McAuliffe
Angela Drayton, Illinois Resident
John Preus, Chicago Artist. Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Rena Bransten Gallery SF