Hillman Journalism Prizes Deadline Is January 31, 2012

 

NEW YORK, NY (December 19, 2011) – The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations and submissions for the 2012 Hillman Prizes that honor investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good.

The 2012 prizes will be given for work produced, published, broadcast, or exhibited in 2011. The categories include books, for non-fiction work, newspaper reporting, print or online, magazine reporting, print or online, broadcast journalism, for video or radio programs longer than 40 minutes, photojournalism, for still photographs that may or may not be part of a larger multi-media package, and Web journalism, for online reporting done by an individual or an institution (text blog and/or multimedia).

This year, for the first time, they will also accept nominations in the category of opinion journalism, for commentary and analysis in any medium.

The postmark deadline for all nominations and submissions is January 31, 2012. There is no submission fee. A cover letter and four copies of the nominated material are all that are required.

For photojournalism entries, the contest prefers to see tear sheets (photographs as they were published), but scanned work on discs and/or links are also acceptable and/or can be supplemental. The nomination form and application instructions can be found on their Web sitehere.
 
Winners will be announced in April 2012. Each winner is awarded travel to New York City to receive a $5,000 prize and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Sorel, at an awards ceremony and cocktail reception to be held Tuesday May 1, 2012.

Submissions will be judged by a distinguished panel of journalists: 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.   

Previous winners are onlinehere.

Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists, writers and public figures that pursue investigative journalism 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.

For questions, please contact: Alexandra Lescaze, Executive Director, The Sidney Hillman Foundation, 12 West 31st Street, 12th floor, New York, NY, 10001, +1.917.696.2494, Alex@HillmanFoundation.org.

 

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