John Branch of The New York Times has won the January Sidney Award for his series on the untimely death of Derek Boogaard, a hockey enforcer who died of an overdose after a two-year struggle with cognitive deficits, depression and addiction.Continue reading...

Sara Ganim, a 24-year-old crime reporter with the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, won the December Sidney for her series of investigations exposing the Penn State sex abuse scandal.Continue reading...

Salon’s Irin Carmon has won the November Sidney Award for “The Next Front in the Abortion Wars: Birth Control.”Continue reading...

Morning Call reporter Spencer Soper won the October Sidney Award for “Inside Amazon’s Warehouse,” an exposé of brutal working conditions at Amazon.com’s warehouse in Lehigh Valley, PA.Continue reading...

What is the American Legislative Exchange Commission (ALEC), and why should we be concerned about this group?Continue reading...

Your story is called "Bycatch-22," how would you explain the title to someone who hadn't read the article?

The title relates to the cruel paradox of a commercial fishing industry that is forced to abide a bureaucracy that can appear to operate in such a manner as to kill the very industry it is pledged to protect. Fishermen oftentimes find themselves throwing back perfectly valuable, dead or dying fish because of regulations that are designed to protect those same fish from overfishing.Continue reading...

How did you decide to write about your own history as an undocumented immigrant?Continue reading...

Why did you decide to look into neglect and abuse at homes for the aged and mentally ill?Continue reading...