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Sidney Awards

Sidney Award Winners

The Sidney is a monthly award for outstanding investigative journalism that fosters social and economic justice.
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March 11, 2015
Zwerdling Wins March Sidney for Exposing Nursing’s Back Injury Crisis
National Public Radio
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February 11, 2015
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting Wins February Sidney for Exposing No-Jail Jailers
Louisville Public Media’s Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting
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January 14, 2015
L.A Times Team Wins January Sidney for Exposing the Brutal System That Puts Perfect Mexican Produce on U.S. Tables
Los Angeles Times
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December 10, 2014
Greg Palast wins December Sidney for Exposing a Defective Database that Endangers the Votes of Millions of People of Color
Al Jazeera America
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November 12, 2014
Adrian Chen wins November Sidney for spotlighting the workers who keep ‘dick pics’ and beheadings out of your Facebook feed
Wired
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October 8, 2014
McClatchy & ProPublica Win October Sidney for Exposing Multi-Billion-Dollar Tax Fraud by Worker Misclassification
McClatchy and ProPublica
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September 10, 2014
Post and Courier Wins September Sidney for Investigation of South Carolina’s Domestic Homicide Crisis
Post and Courier
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August 12, 2014
Jay Root Wins August Sidney for Exposé of Texas’ Threadbare Workers’ Compensation System
The Texas Tribune
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July 9, 2014
Esther Kaplan Wins July Sidney for “Losing Sparta: The Bitter Truth About the Gospel Of Productivity”
Virginia Quarterly Review
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June 11, 2014
Beth Schwartzapfel Wins June Sidney for “The Great American Chain Gang”
The American Prospect
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May 21, 2014
Chris Hayes Wins May Sidney Award for “The New Abolitionism”
The Nation
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April 8, 2014
The Miami Herald Wins April Sidney Award for “Innocents Lost”
The Miami Herald
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