Sidney Award Winners | Hillman Foundation

Sidney Awards

Sidney Award Winners

The Sidney is a monthly award for outstanding investigative journalism that exposes social and economic injustices.
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December 10, 2025
Capital & Main wins December Sidney for Exposing Child Labor Abuses on California Farms
Capital & Main with the Los Angeles Times and the McGraw Center for Business Journalism
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November 12, 2025
Tampa Bay Times wins November Sidney for Exposing Deaths of Undocumented Workers on Florida Road Crews
Tampa Bay Times
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October 8, 2025
Josh Eidelson wins October Sidney for Exposing True Toll of NIOSH Cuts
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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September 10, 2025
Maya Dukmasova wins September Sidney for Exposing Flawed Forensic Science in Chicago
Injustice Watch
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August 13, 2025
Jordan Green wins August Sidney for Spotlighting Neo-Nazi Militant Accelerationism
The Assembly
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July 9, 2025
Los Angeles Times wins July Sidney for impactful coverage of ICE raids
Los Angeles Times
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June 11, 2025
Open Vallejo wins June Sidney for Uncovering the Truth Behind a Death in Police Custody
Open Vallejo
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May 21, 2025
Tampa Bay Times wins May Sidney for Sounding the Alarm About Florida’s Manatee Crisis
Tampa Bay Times
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April 16, 2025
Mother Jones wins April Sidney for 'You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos'
Mother Jones
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March 12, 2025
WIRED wins March Sidney for Agenda-Setting Coverage of DOGE
WIRED
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February 12, 2025
The Guardian wins February Sidney for coverage of Trump’s illegal firing of National Labor Relations Board Chair
The Guardian
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January 15, 2025
THE CITY wins January Sidney for Exposing That New York Prisons Hire Doctors Guilty of Serious Misconduct
The City
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