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Hillman Prizes for journalism, Sidney Awards, Sidney’s Picks
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hillman Prizes.
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Announcing the 2026 U.S Hillman Prize winners
NEW YORK – The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 76th annual Hillman Prizes for journalism in service of the common good: Book – Michelle Adams, The Containment: Detroit, th...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/clearitwithsidney/announcing-2026-us-hillman-prize-winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hillman Prizes.
#Hillman26
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Announcing the 2026 U.S Hillman Prize winners
NEW YORK – The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 76th annual Hillman Prizes for journalism in service of the common good: Book – Michelle Adams, The Containment: Detroit, th...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/clearitwithsidney/announcing-2026-us-hillman-prize-winners
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@wired.com
wins the Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for its agenda setting coverage of DOGE’s frontal assault on the federal workforce and Americans’ most sensitive data.
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Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government
In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-magazine-journalism
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Sidney Hillman Foundation Names Winners Of 2026 Hillman Prizes | The Bronx Daily | Bronx.com
The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 76<sup>th</sup> annual Hillman Prizes for journalism:
https://bronx.com/sidney-hillman-foundation-names-winners-of-2026-hillman-prizes/
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@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, wins the Barrett Award for Public Interest Law for his defense of democratic freedoms against the encroachment of authoritarianism.
#Hillman26
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2026 George Barrett Award
Jameel Jaffer is the inaugural executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Under his leadership, the Institute has been a prominent and influential defender of d...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/george-barrett-award/2026
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@gingerthompson.bsky.social
& Doris Burke of
@propublica.org
win the SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice for their deep dive into Albany, GA, a town with a world-class hospital, whose community is sicker than ever, exposing larger truths about our healthcare system.
#Hillman26
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“Sick in a Hospital Town”
Why were the residents so sick, when the most powerful institution in town was a hospital? That question guided Ginger Thompson on a new quest, even though she had traveled to Albany, Georgia, to tell...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-seiu-award-reporting-racial-and-economic-justice
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@polgreen.bsky.social
wins the Hillman Prize for opinion & analysis for separating myth from reality in her columns about migration for
@nytimes.com
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#Hillman26
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“The Great Migration”
Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist for The New York Times, has been trying to make sense of our current era of anti-migration. “If there was a zero hour, it came in 2015, when more than a million migra...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-opinion-analysis-journalism
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@wired.com
wins the Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for its agenda-setting coverage of DOGE’s frontal assault on the federal workforce and Americans’ most sensitive data.
#hillman26
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Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government
In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-magazine-journalism
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Jameel Jaffer
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Very honored to receive this recognition for my work and for the work of all of my colleagues at
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and congratulations to all of the journalists being awarded Hillman Prizes as well.
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2026 George Barrett Award
Jameel Jaffer is the inaugural executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Under his leadership, the Institute has been a prominent and influential defender of d...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/george-barrett-award/2026
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Lauren Caruba, Marin Wolf, Azul Sordo, and team from
@dallasnews.com
win the Hillman Prize for Newspaper journalism for their 8-part series exposing the toll of Texas’s abortion ban on women and doctors.
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“Standard of Fear”
Women forced to carry a pregnancy to term, even though their babies were not viable. A woman in her second trimester who endured four days of excruciating labor for a stillborn delivery. Two women who...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-newspaper-journalism
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Charlotte Kaufman and Andrew Jarecki win the Hillman Prize for Broadcast journalism for The Alabama Solution, a riveting documentary using clandestine cellphone footage that exposes the lethal brutality of Alabama’s prison system.
#Hillman26
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The Alabama Solution
Team Credits: Beth Shelburne: Co-Producer and Investigative Journalist Page Marsella: Co-Producer and Editor Christopher Izor: Associate Producer and Investigative Researcher Gabe Murray: Associate Pr...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-broadcast-journalism
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Michelle Adams wins the 2026 Hillman Prize for her book, "The Containment," which recounts how the Supreme Court halted school desegregation in the North with the Milliken decision.
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Michelle Adams
In the 1970s, Detroit was at the center of a legal and historical drama that exposes the roots of today’s backlash against affirmative action and DEI initiatives. Legal scholar Michelle Adams chronicl...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-book-journalism
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hillman Prizes.
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Announcing the 2026 U.S Hillman Prize winners
NEW YORK – The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 76th annual Hillman Prizes for journalism in service of the common good: Book – Michelle Adams, The Containment: Detroit, th...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/clearitwithsidney/announcing-2026-us-hillman-prize-winners
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Spend a few minutes celebrating journalism in the public interest with the
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Announcing the 2026 U.S Hillman Prize winners
NEW YORK – The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 76th annual Hillman Prizes for journalism in service of the common good: Book – Michelle Adams, The Containment: Detroit, th...
https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/clearitwithsidney/announcing-2026-us-hillman-prize-winners
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Congrats
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@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, wins the Barrett Award for Public Interest Law for his defense of democratic freedoms against the encroachment of authoritarianism.
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2026 George Barrett Award
Jameel Jaffer is the inaugural executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Under his leadership, the Institute has been a prominent and influential defender of d...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/george-barrett-award/2026
1 day ago
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@gingerthompson.bsky.social
& Doris Burke of
@propublica.org
win the SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice for their deep dive into Albany, GA, a town with a world-class hospital, whose community is sicker than ever, exposing larger truths about our healthcare system.
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“Sick in a Hospital Town”
Why were the residents so sick, when the most powerful institution in town was a hospital? That question guided Ginger Thompson on a new quest, even though she had traveled to Albany, Georgia, to tell...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-seiu-award-reporting-racial-and-economic-justice
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@polgreen.bsky.social
wins the Hillman Prize for opinion & analysis for separating myth from reality in her columns about migration for
@nytimes.com
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“The Great Migration”
Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist for The New York Times, has been trying to make sense of our current era of anti-migration. “If there was a zero hour, it came in 2015, when more than a million migra...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-opinion-analysis-journalism
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@wired.com
wins the Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for its agenda-setting coverage of DOGE’s frontal assault on the federal workforce and Americans’ most sensitive data.
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Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government
In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-magazine-journalism
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Lauren Caruba, Marin Wolf, Azul Sordo and team from
@dallasnews.com
win the Hillman Prize for Newspaper journalism for their 8-part series exposing the toll of Texas’s abortion ban on women and doctors.
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“Standard of Fear”
Women forced to carry a pregnancy to term, even though their babies were not viable. A woman in her second trimester who endured four days of excruciating labor for a stillborn delivery. Two women who...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-newspaper-journalism
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Charlotte Kaufman and Andrew Jarecki win the Hillman Prize for Broadcast journalism for The Alabama Solution, a riveting documentary using clandestine cellphone footage that exposes the lethal brutality of Alabama’s prison system.
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The Alabama Solution
Team Credits: Beth Shelburne: Co-Producer and Investigative Journalist Page Marsella: Co-Producer and Editor Christopher Izor: Associate Producer and Investigative Researcher Gabe Murray: Associate Pr...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-broadcast-journalism
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Michelle Adams wins the 2026 Hillman Prize for her book, The Containment, which recounts how the Supreme Court halted school desegregation in the North with the Milliken decision.
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Michelle Adams
In the 1970s, Detroit was at the center of a legal and historical drama that exposes the roots of today’s backlash against affirmative action and DEI initiatives. Legal scholar Michelle Adams chronicl...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2026-hillman-prize-book-journalism
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hillman Prizes.
#Hillman26
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Announcing the 2026 U.S Hillman Prize winners
NEW YORK – The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 76th annual Hillman Prizes for journalism in service of the common good: Book – Michelle Adams, The Containment: Detroit, th...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/clearitwithsidney/announcing-2026-us-hillman-prize-winners
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Congratulations to
@kennedysessions.bsky.social
on winning the Sidney Hillman Award for Social Justice Reporting for her outstanding data journalism!
@thecity.nyc
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Newmark J-School Names 2026 Alumni Award Honorees - Newmark J-School
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Alumni Awards for Excellence.
https://journalism.cuny.edu/2026/04/newmark-j-school-names-2026-alumni-award-honorees/
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Congrats to the
#CanHillman26
winners: Harvey Cashore, Mark Kelley,
@evacsenge.bsky.social
,
@danlebla.bsky.social
, Allya Davidson,
@emarchand.bsky.social
for “Tax Hack: Identity Theft” & “The Denial Machine,” for CBC News the fifth estate.
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Robert Cribb, Laurie Few, Susanne Reber, Wendy-Ann Clarke, Bruce Edwards win a Canadian Hillman Prize for “Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets.”
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Randy Kitt
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Holding the powerful to account
@brendankennedy.bsky.social
wins the
@sidneyhillman.bsky.social
award for his Maplehurst Riot series
#savelicalnews
Great investigative
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Brendan Kennedy of the Toronto Star accepts his
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Congratulations to Brendan Kennedy of the
@thestar.com
on winning a 2026 Canadian Hillman Prize for “The Maplehurst Riot Squad,” exposing torture in an Ontario prison.
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Bonnie Brown kicks off
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Canadian Hillman Prizes!
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Canadian Hillman Prize
We are pleased to offer this prize to Canadian journalists whose work makes a difference to the lives of Canadians.
https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hillman-prize/2026/
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The Washington Post
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Breaking news: A judge found that the Defense Department’s revised “interim” policy unconstitutionally sidestepped his earlier ruling. That ruling found that the department’s press policy violated the rights of the New York Times and one of its reporters.
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Pentagon violated court order to restore press access, judge rules
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman also admonished the Trump administration, saying suppressing political speech is the “mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/09/judge-pentagon-press-access/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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More Perfect Union
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BREAKING: The Commerce Department has revised U.S. fourth-quarter GDP growth down to 0.5%. Third quarter growth was 4.4%.
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jamelle
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vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him
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Rachel Maddow
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"The proceedings on Thursday against Memorial, the country’s oldest and most respected civil society group, took place in a closed courtroom, because it was classified as 'top secret.' No lawyer was allowed to participate..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/w...
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A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown
As Moscow throttles Russia’s few remaining independent voices, the authorities targeted two of the most prominent, one a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the other headed by a Nobel laureate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/russia-newspaper-rights-group-crackdown.html
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Josh Eidelson
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Scoop: Starbucks union has filed new labor board case accusing company of negotiating in bad faith in the contract talks that resumed this week – a rocky start to the first negotiations in a year
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Union alleges Starbucks backtracked on tentative agreements
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Robert of Bellême
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I have seen one good example of this plate
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Caroline Haskins
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FOIA scoop (no paywall): The day Renee Good was killed, a Minnesota state police official repeatedly texted a FBI agent. He wanted to co-manage the crime scene & ensure his agents were included in interviews. For at least 2 days, maybe longer, the FBI didn't respond:
www.wired.com/story/the-fb...
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The FBI Didn't Answer Texts From Minnesota Investigators for Days After Renee Good’s Killing
Messages sent to the FBI by an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension went ignored for at least two days, per records obtained by WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbi-didnt-answer-texts-from-minnesota-investigators-for-days-after-renee-goods-killing/
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The official hashtag for the 2026 Canadian Hillman Prizes for journalism is
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jamelle
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it is very funny that someone is charging money to a bunch of losers to walk through a tunnel
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The
@nytimes.com
wins the April Sidney Award for exposing Cesar Chavez' longstanding abuse of women and girls, including labor icon Dolores Huerta and two teens:
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New York Times wins April Sidney for Exposing Cesar Chavez’s Abuse of Women and Girls
NEW YORK — The New York Times wins the April Sidney Award for an investigation that exposed United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez’s history of abusing women and girls. In the 1960s, Chavez organized...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/new-york-times-wins-april-sidney-exposing-cesar-chavezs-abuse-women-and-girls
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Radley Balko
16 days ago
Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick? New video shows they were lying about that one, too.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
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Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-video.html
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Katie Drummond
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WIRED is doing more hiring! Come be a staff editor and work across our newsroom and with our international editions. Great, dynamic gig, moving quickly so don’t hold off on applying:
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Staff Editor
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCareers/details/Staff-Editor_R-23422-2?locationCountry=bc33aa3152ec42d4995f4791a106ed09
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Congratulations to Brendan Kennedy of the
@thestar.com
on winning a 2026 Canadian Hillman Prize for “The Maplehurst Riot Squad”
#CanHillman26
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Brendan Kennedy
When reporter Brendan Kennedy chased a tip that jail guards at Maplehurst Correctional Complex had meted out violent, unjustified punishment to nearly 200 inmates, he was met with fierce resistance. T...
https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hillman-prize/2026/print-digital
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Congrats to the
#CanHillman26
winners: Harvey Cashore, Mark Kelley,
@evacsenge.bsky.social
@danlebla.bsky.social
, Allya Davidson,
@emarchand.bsky.social
for “Tax Hack: Identity Theft” & “The Denial Machine,” for CBC News the fifth estate.
#CanHillman26
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Harvey Cashore, Mark Kelley, Eva Uguen-Csenge, Daniel Leblanc, Allya Davidson, Emmanuel Marchand
A years-long fifth estate investigation found that government agencies that Canadians count on to support them, turned on them instead. Hackers infiltrated the computer files of government agencies an...
https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hillman-prize/2026/broadcast
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Cribb, Laurie Few, Susanne Reber, Wendy-Ann Clarke, Bruce Edwards win a Canadian Hillman Prize for “Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets,” for
@ijbstories.bsky.social
, TVO Today, Piz Gloria Productions, and the
@thestar.com
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Robert Cribb, Wendy-Ann Clarke, Susanne Reber, Laurie Few, Bruce Edwards
Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets is a six-part podcast that examines a David-and-Goliath fight against the most powerful tech companies in the world to end a massive, global trade in child ...
https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hillman-prize/2026/small-market-local
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La Fondation Sidney Hillman a annoncé aujourd’hui les lauréats et lauréates de la 16e édition des Prix canadiens Hillman.
#CanHillman26
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Canadian Hillman Prize
We are pleased to offer this prize to Canadian journalists whose work makes a difference to the lives of Canadians.
https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hillman-prize/2026/
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Canadian Hillman Prizes!
#CanHillman26
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Canadian Hillman Prize
We are pleased to offer this prize to Canadian journalists whose work makes a difference to the lives of Canadians.
https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hillman-prize/2026/
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The Rundown
29 days ago
Listen to Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets on
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Media Action Plan
29 days ago
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026
@sidneyhillman.bsky.social
prizes, awarded to journalists whose work makes a difference in the lives of Canadians. 🥳 Special shout-out to Brendan Kennedy who won the print/digital award for his piece "The Maplehurst Riot Squad". More:
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Canadian Hillman Prize
We are pleased to offer this prize to Canadian journalists whose work makes a difference to the lives of Canadians.
https://tinyurl.com/s8t27vft
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Richard Warnica
29 days ago
So richly deserved. This was the best, most impactful newspaper journalism I read in Canada last year.
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