Sidney Award Winners | Hillman Foundation

Sidney Awards

Sidney Award Winners

The Sidney is a monthly award for outstanding investigative journalism that fosters social and economic justice.
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March 13, 2019
Saki Knafo wins March Sidney for Groundbreaking Podcast about a Complex Private Investigator Fighting Wrongful Conviction
Gimlet Media in partnership with the New York Times Magazine and Type Investigations
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February 13, 2019
The Trace and Buzzfeed News win February Sidney for Exposing Cities’ Failure to Arrest Shooters
The Trace and BuzzFeed News
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January 9, 2019
The Hechinger Report wins January Sidney for Exposing For-Profit Cosmetology School Racket
The Hechinger Report, in partnership with the New York Times
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December 12, 2018
Miami Herald wins December Sidney for Exposing Alex Acosta’s Sweetheart Deal with Multimillionaire Sex Offender
The Miami Herald
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November 14, 2018
Adam Liptak wins November Sidney for Exposing the Heritage Foundation’s Secretive Right-Wing Academy for Judicial Clerks
The New York Times
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October 10, 2018
Hannah Dreier wins October Sidney for Showing How Suffolk County Police Botched Investigations of Murdered Latino Teens
ProPublica/This American Life
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September 12, 2018
Isaac Arnsdorf wins September Sidney for Exposing The Shadow Rulers of the VA
ProPublica
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August 8, 2018
David Hill wins August Sidney for Story about Huge Cockfighting Raid that Upended a Small Town
The Ringer
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July 11, 2018
John H. Tucker wins July Sidney for exposing Rikers rape crisis
New York Magazine
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June 13, 2018
Juliet Macur wins June Sidney for exposing exploitation and harassment of the NFL’s non-cheering cheerleaders
The New York Times
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May 30, 2018
Reveal/CIR win May Sidney for exposing Tesla factory’s shoddy safety record
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting
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April 11, 2018
Teen Vogue wins April Sidney for agenda-setting social justice coverage
Teen Vogue
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