January 27, 2017
Sidney's Picks: McSecretary's Hearing Postponed; Facebook Strikes at Fake News
Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News
January 20, 2017
Sidney's Picks: The Resistance
Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News
January 13, 2017
Sidney's Picks: Chaffetz' Banana Republic BS, Madoff's Hot Chocolate Racket
The Best of the Week’s News
January 6, 2017
Sidney's Picks: A Preview of Coming Travesties at DOL, State, and Beyond
The Best of the Week’s News
December 16, 2016
Sidney's Picks: Brazil's Bitter Austerity, Court Halts TX Embryo Antics
The Best of the Week’s News
December 9, 2016
Sidney's Picks: Trump Picks McSecretary of Labor, Attacks Carrier Union Leader
Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News
November 18, 2016
Sidney's Picks: "Choice" in Rapid City, Life After Pulse
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Rapid City, South Dakota, by JSF539, Creative Commons.
The Best of the Week’s News
November 15, 2016
2017 Hillman Prizes: Call for Entries on Now Through January 30
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Hillman Prizes which honor investigative journalism and commentary in the public interest. Winners exemplify reportorial excellence, storytelling skill, and social justice impact. The 2017 prizes will be given for work published or aired in 2016. Our categories are:
- Book (nonfiction)
- Newspaper Reporting (print or online)
- Magazine Reporting (print or online)
- Broadcast Journalism (story/series/documentary at least 20 minutes in total package length that aired on television, radio or podcast)
- Web Journalism (story/series that appeared online but not in print) Open to blogs, photojournalism, and other multimedia projects as well as text.
- Opinion & Analysis Journalism (commentary and analysis in any medium)
Winners will be announced in April 2017. Each winner is awarded travel to New York City to receive a $5,000 prize and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Sorel, at our ceremony to be held Tuesday May 9, 2017 at the New York Times Center.
November 4, 2016
Sidney's Picks: The Dark Side of Trader Joe's & The Rise of Alex Jones
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November 1, 2016
2017 Canadian Hillman Prize Call for Entries On Now!
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If you’re Canadian, you’ll understand why we chose this “Roll Up the Win To Win” illustration, courtesy of Rick Harris, Creative Commons.
The call for entries for the 2017 Canadian Hillman Prizes is on now through January 13, 2017. The Canadian Hillman recognizes excellence in journalism for the common good. The winner will receive $5000 and a trip to New York City for the Hillman Prize awards ceremony in May. There is no fee to enter.
Click here for the complete rules and eligbility criteria
Last year, Kathryn Blaze Baum and her team at the Globe & Mail won for their unforgettable submission, “A Country’s Crisis: Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.”
The year before, the honor went to Kevin Donovan, Jesse Brown, Jayme Poisson, Emily Mathieu, Randy Risling for exposing sexual assault and harrassment at all levels of Canadian society.
Our distinguished Canadian judges are the celebrated journalists Bonnie Brown, and Tony Burman, and the esteemed progressive economist Armine Yalnizyan.
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