Call for Entries Now Open
* ATTENTION EDITORS AND AWARDS COORDINATORS *
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE HILLMAN PRIZES IN JOURNALISM
DEADLINE JANUARY 31, 2010
– Annual Prizes Honor Journalism Dedicated to Social and Economic Justice–
~Now open to Work Published in Canada~
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations and submissions for the 2010 Hillman Prizes, honoring journalism that fosters social and economic justice. Categories for 2010 will include books (non-fiction), newspaper reporting, magazine reporting, film and broadcast journalism (includes television and radio), photojournalism, and blogs.
The 2010 prizes will be given for work produced, published or exhibited in 2009. Editors, photo editors, producers, reporters and authors are urged to submit nominations now. The contest is open to journalists and subjects globally, although work must be published in the US or Canada. The postmark deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010. Winners will be announced in May 2010.
Each winner is awarded travel to New York City to receive a statuette and a $5,000 prize at our awards ceremony to be held May 26, 2010.
There is no submission fee. A cover letter and four copies of the nominated material are all that are required. For photojournalism entries, we would most like to see publications, but scanned work on discs is also acceptable. There is a submission form on our website. Blog entries can be submitted entirely on this form.
Submissions are judged by a distinguished panel of judges: Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor, The New Yorker; Susan Meiselas, Magnum photographer, Harold Meyerson, Washington Post columnist and editor-at-large, The American Prospect, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation, and Rose Marie Arce, senior producer, CNN.
Winners of the 2009 Hillman Prizes were Steven Greenhouse for The Big Squeeze, and Jane Mayer for The Dark Side, in the book category, Nina Bernstein for her New York Times story “Death in Immigrant Detention” in the newspaper category, The Nation Special Issue The New Inequality in the magazine category, Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo for their PBS/POV documentary “Made in LA” in the broadcast category, Carol Guzy for her “Birth and Death” series in The Washington Post in the photography category, Marcy Wheeler for Emptywheel.Firedoglake.com in the blog category, and James Green, Professor of History and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, for the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History.
Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good. Sidney Hillman was the founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union of America, a predecessor union of Workers United, SEIU. Sidney Hillman, an architect of the New Deal, fought to build a vibrant union movement extending beyond the shop floor to all aspects of workers’ lives.
Please forward all nominations/submissions to:
Alexandra Lescaze
Executive Director, The Sidney Hillman Foundation
31 West 15th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10011
917-696-2494
Alex@HillmanFoundation.org
For more information, to submit, and to see past winners, please visit our website at www.hillmanfoundation.org.