Josh Eidelson wins October Sidney for Exposing True Toll of NIOSH Cuts

NEW YORK — Josh Eidelson wins the October Sidney Award for his feature in Bloomberg Businessweek, “How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant.” The story documents the massive cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a small workplace research agency that contributes billions of dollars of value to the U.S. economy. Unlike

Maya Dukmasova wins September Sidney for Exposing Flawed Forensic Science in Chicago

Maya Dukmasova wins the September Sidney Award for her feature in Injustice Watch, “Fake science, faulty methods, misleading testimony,” an exposé of a rogue forensic lab in Chicago that used bogus testing methods to help convict people of driving under the influence of cannabis.  In 2017, 32-year-old Dwan Thompson was pulled over for driving 17 miles over the speed limit.

Mother Jones wins April Sidney for 'You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos'

Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias win the April Sidney Award for ‘You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos,’ a Mother Jones feature revealing that young Latino men are being deported without due process because of innocuous tattoos. The Trump administration falsely claims the tattoos indicate affiliation with Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang. Tattoos are marks of

WIRED wins March Sidney for Agenda-Setting Coverage of DOGE

WIRED wins the March Sidney Award for coverage of the Department of Government Efficiency’s assault on the federal government. As soon as Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing Elon Musk to make sweeping cuts to the federal government under the auspices of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), WIRED was ready.  During the summer of 2024, WIRED’s editors

2025 Hillman Prize Nominations

The Call for Entries for the 2025 Hillman Prizes is now open. The deadline for entry is January 30, 2025 at 11:59pm. Contest Instructions: Please click the box at the bottom of this page to enter. You will see category-specific instructions as well as a textbox to enter your cover letter. You may upload files, provide links and/or mail copies to our office but you must fill out the form or we will not have a record of your entry.

Miami Herald wins December Sidney Award for “Guilty of Grief”

Carol Marbin Miller, Linda Robertson and Camellia Burris of the Miami Herald win the December Sidney Award for “Guilty of Grief,” a deeply reported, multi-layered account of the police shooting of a severely mentally ill young man named Richard Hollis. The series documents his mother Gamaly’s frantic search for accountability, which ended with her being imprisoned for

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2025 Hillman Prizes for Journalism

NEW YORK (Nov 19, 2024) — The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2025 Hillman Prizes honoring excellence in investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good. The Hillman Prizes celebrate print, digital and broadcast reporting and commentary in the public interest that exposes injustice and leads to meaningful public policy change. Hillman Prize winners will be awarded a $5,000 honorarium and a certificate at our celebration in New York City to be held on May 6, 2025.

Samantha Michaels wins May Sidney for Probing a Tribal Police Department and A Tragic Death

Samantha Michaels of Mother Jones wins the May Sidney Award for “A New Police Force Chased a 17-Year-Old Boy to His Death. Then It Vanished,” a deeply reported feature about a short-lived police force on the Crow reservation in Montana. In late 2020, 17-year-old Braven Glenn was driving to visit his girlfriend on the vast Crow Indian Reservation in southern Montana. Braven

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San Francisco Chronicle wins March Sidney for Exposing Rising Death Toll of Police Chases

Jennifer Gollan and Susie Neilson of the San Francisco Chronicle win the March Sidney Award for “Fast and Fatal,” a yearlong investigation that found that police pursuits now claim nearly two lives a day across the country.  Officers routinely launch high-speed chases for low-level crimes, or sometimes for no crime at all. Departments often have permissive rules, and officers