Sidney Awards
Cristina Spanó for ProPublica
Medical Bonds
October 9, 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 judge Katrina vanden Heuvel on the urgent necesssity of public-interest journalism in The Washington Post