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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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September 9, 2015
Charlie Pierce wins September Sidney for Haunting Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
Esquire
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August 12, 2015
BuzzFeed News wins August Sidney for Exposing the “New American Slavery” of the H2B Visa Program
BuzzFeed News
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July 8, 2015
The Post & Courier wins July Sidney for coverage of Emanuel AME church shooting
The Post and Courier
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June 10, 2015
Maslin Nir wins June Sidney for exposing the rampant exploitation of immigrant women in New York nail salons
The New York Times
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May 27, 2015
Stillman wins May Sidney for investigating the lucrative kidnapping of migrant children on the border
The New Yorker
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April 8, 2015
Woodman Wins April Sidney for Exposing Amazon’s Outrageous Noncompete Clauses
The Verge
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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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