Hillman Foundation | Journalism for the Common Good

2024 Canadian Hillman Prizes

  • Steven Chase and Robert Fife
    Canadian Hillman Prize Winner: Print/Digital
    Foreign Interference
    The Globe and Mail
  • Brandi Morin and Geordie Day
    Canadian Hillman Prize Winner: Broadcast
    Killer Water: The Toxic Legacy of Canada's Oil Sands Industry on Indigenous Communities
    Ricochet Media/The Real News Network/IndigiNews Media
  • Aaron Derfel
    Canadian Hillman Prize Winner: Local News
    Staff haunted by preventable deaths at Lakeshore Hospital ER
    Montreal Gazette

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Operating with immunity from serious punishment, officers routinely launch chases that begin with a low-level crime and end with a violent wreck.
March 13, 2024

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The Sidney Hillman Foundation honors excellence in journalism in service of the common good.

Our awards and programs honor the legacy and vision of union pioneer and New Deal architect Sidney Hillman.

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New & Notable

The 2024 Candian Hillman Prize winners qwere announced March 19. Ceremony to be held April 4 in Toronto.

In 2024, the SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice will be presented at the 2024 Hillman Prize ceremony.

The Call for Entries for the 2024 U.S Hillman Prizes is now closed. The deadline to enter was Jan 30, 2024.

The 4th annual Reporting the U.S Workplace’ program at the Newmark J-school in NYC was held January 18-19 2024. Please send us an email if you would like to be placed on the email list for the 2025 program.

See photos and videos from the 2023 U.S Hillman Prize celebration.

See photos and video from the 2023 Canadian Hillman Prize celebration. 

Apply here for a labor and workplace reporting grant. Rolling deadline. 

Hillman judge Katrina vanden Heuvel on the urgent necesssity of public-interest journalism in The Washington Post