Backstory Archive
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September, 2011
The Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation
Interview about ALEC
The Nation
Yes
August, 2011
Tom Gogola
Tom Gogola discusses his exposé of massive waste in commercial fishing.
New York Magazine
Yes
June, 2011
Jose Antonio Vargas
Jose Antonio Vargas discusses his account of his life as an undocumented immigrant.
The New York Times
Yes
May, 2011
Michael Sallah
Michael Sallah discusses his series on routine abuse and neglect at assisted-living facilities in Florida.
The Miami Herald
Yes
April, 2011
Nathaniel Popper
Nathaniel Popper discusses his look into Ikea's anti-union practices in the United States.
Los Angeles Times
Yes
March, 2011
David Kocieniewski
David Kocieniewski discusses his investigation into G.E.'s tax avoidance strategies.
The New York Times
Yes
February, 2011
Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent discusses his coverage of the Republican assault on public sector employees in Wisconsin.
"The Plum Line"
Yes
January, 2011
The Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists talks about on the situation for journalists in Egypt during the uprising and how they keep track of what is happening on the ground.
Yes
December, 2010
Arthur Delany and Ryan Grim discuss “The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, and the Politics of the New Deal,” their over six-thousand word investigation into the legacy of Social Security in the United States.
The Huffington Post
Yes
November, 2010
Howard Berkes discusses his seven-month-long investigation into the activities of coal production company Massey Energy, whose serious and consistent safety violations recently led the U.S. Labor Department to seek an unprecedented injunction to shut down one of its mines.
National Public Radio
Yes
October, 2010
Pamela Colloff discusses her Texas Monthly investigation into the case of Anthony Graves, who spent eighteen years behind bars wrongfully accused of murder.
Yes
September, 2010
Dan Savage talks about the "It Gets Better Project," an online video archive designed to give hope to students being bullied because they are perceived to be lesbian or gay.
Yes
August, 2010
Ronnie Greene on his two-part series in The Miami Herald about the families of a tiny Florida town and their fight for compensation due to polution from a defunct Lockheed Martin nuclear weapons plant.
No
June, 2010
"Depression, Abuse, Suicide: Fishermen's Wives Face Post-Spill Trauma"
MotherJones.com
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April, 2010
Six-part series about fraud in the carbon-offset market.
The Christian Science Monitor
Certificate designed by Edward Sorel
The Sidney is awarded monthly to a piece published in an American magazine, newspaper, on a news site, or a blog. Television and radio broadcasts by an American news outlet are also eligible, as are published photography series.
Deadlines are the last day of each month. The piece must have been published in the month preceding the deadline. In the case of magazines, please nominate according to the issue date on the publication, not when it first appeared.
Nominations are accepted for one's own work, or for someone else's.
The Foundation will announce a winner on the second Wednesday of each month. Recipients will be awarded $500, a bottle of union-made wine, and a certificate designed especially for the Sidney by New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Sorel.
If you wish to nominate yourself or a piece by anyone else, please click here for our nomination form.If you have any further questions about the nomination process, please send your inquiry to alex@hillmanfoundation.org