Hillman Foundation

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• 60 Minutes was its own fiefdom complete with Droit de Seigneur. 
   
• Documents point to illegal campaign coordination between Trump and the NRA.
   
• Infamous Pegasus software helped the Saudis spy on Khashoggi.
   
• Trump’s incoming UN ambassador thinks the height of US/German relations was…D-Day. 

Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the call for entries for the 2019 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now!

The Hillman Prizes honor investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good. 

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• Book
• Newspaper
• Magazine 
• Broadcast 
• Web
• Opinion & Analysis 

Each prize consists of a $5000 honorarium and travel to New York City to attend the awards ceremony. 

Deadline for applications is January 30, 2019. 

Click here for full details and to enter.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Our new acting AG penned an anti-Mueller op/ed, sat on the board of a fraudster firm, and touted crackpot legal theories. 
   
• The Newest Jim Crow
   
• He survived the mass shooting in Las Vegas only to die in the mass shooting at Thousand Oaks. 
   
• Unions finally brought down Scott Walker, but the damage is done. 

Attention, journalists, editors, and awards coordinators,

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2019 Canadian Hillman Prize honouring excellence in investigative journalism!

The Hillman Prize celebrates print, digital and broadcast reporting that highlights social or economic injustice and hopefully leads to meaningful public policy change. 

Winning entries will be judged on the following criteria: 

• Significance of journalism in service of the common good
• Resourcefulness and courage in reporting 
• Skill in relating the story and impact of the coverage

Eligibility: Entries must be published or broadcast in 2018 and have been made widely available to a Canadian audience. Nominated material and a cover letter explaining how the entry meets the requirements can be submitted here. There is no fee to enter.

The Canadian Hillman Prize winner will be awarded a certificate, a $5,000 honorarium, and travel to New York City.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Nightmares and Amnesia: The psychological toll of imprisoning migrant children 
   
• Trump praises congressman who body-slammed reporter while his cronies smear missing journalist Khashoggi. 
   
• Inside the Heritage Foundation’s secret incubation chamber for conservative judges.
   
• “A Proud Boy Assaulted Me Because I’m Muslim” 
   
• Mariott Workers strike across 7 time zones