Sidney Awards
Ronnie Dixson, who says he's been homeless for 30 years, sleeps by a steam vent in front of the Asian Art Museum near City Hall.
August 14, 2019
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2019 Hillman Prizes
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2019 Hillman Prize for Book JournalismThe Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Metropolitan Books -
2019 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism“Trapped in Gangland”
ProPublica, New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New York Times Magazine -
2019 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism“Perversion of Justice”
Miami Herald -
2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast JournalismTorn Apart
NBC News and MSNBC -
2019 Hillman Prize for Web JournalismReuters -
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2019 Sol Stetin Award for Labor HistoryQueens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York -
2019 Hillman Award for Social Justice ReportingCraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
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Hillman Prizes
United States
Call for entries for 2020 Hillman Prizes will open in November. Deadline will be Jan 30.
Canada
Call for entries for 2020 Canadian Hillman Prize will open in November. Deadline will be Jan 15.
New & Notable
NYC: Monday August 5th: Come to a preview screening of “American Factory,” a new documentary about a Chinese billionaire who hires 2000 Americans to work in his auto glass factory in GM’s abandoned plant in Dayton, Ohio. It’s the first film to be released by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions. RSVP and more info
2019 U.S. Hillman Prize winners are announced! View speeches and photos from our May 7 ceremony in NYC
2019 Canadian Hillman Prize honourees announced! View speeches and photos from March 28 ceremony in Toronto
Hillman judge Katrina vanden Heuvel on the urgent necesssity of public-interest journalism, in The Washington Post