Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hillman Prizes. #Hillman26

@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.

@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

@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

@polgreen.bsky.social wins the Hillman Prize for opinion & analysis for separating myth from reality in her columns about migration for @nytimes.com. #Hillman26

@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

Very honored to receive this recognition for my work and for the work of all of my colleagues at @knightcolumbia.org. Thanks to @sidneyhillman.bsky.social and congratulations to all of the journalists being awarded Hillman Prizes as well. hillmanfoundation.org/george-barre...

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.

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

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.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hillman Prizes.

Spend a few minutes celebrating journalism in the public interest with the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social prize winners: www.hillmanfoundation.org/clearitwiths... 1/2

Congrats @polgreen.bsky.social !

@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.

@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.

@polgreen.bsky.social wins the Hillman Prize for opinion & analysis for separating myth from reality in her columns about migration for @nytimes.com.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hillman Prizes. #Hillman26

Congratulations to @kennedysessions.bsky.social on winning the Sidney Hillman Award for Social Justice Reporting for her outstanding data journalism! @thecity.nyc

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.

Robert Cribb, Laurie Few, Susanne Reber, Wendy-Ann Clarke, Bruce Edwards win a Canadian Hillman Prize for “Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets.”

Holding the powerful to account @brendankennedy.bsky.social wins the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social award for his Maplehurst Riot series #savelicalnews Great investigative #journalism

Brendan Kennedy of the Toronto Star accepts his #CanHillman26 Prize

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.

Bonnie Brown kicks off #CanHillman26.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Canadian Hillman Prizes!

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.

BREAKING: The Commerce Department has revised U.S. fourth-quarter GDP growth down to 0.5%. Third quarter growth was 4.4%.

vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him

"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...

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

I have seen one good example of this plate

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...

The official hashtag for the 2026 Canadian Hillman Prizes for journalism is #CanHillman26

it is very funny that someone is charging money to a bunch of losers to walk through a tunnel

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:

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...

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:

Congratulations to Brendan Kennedy of the @thestar.com on winning a 2026 Canadian Hillman Prize for “The Maplehurst Riot Squad” #CanHillman26

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

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. #CanHillman26

La Fondation Sidney Hillman a annoncé aujourd’hui les lauréats et lauréates de la 16e édition des Prix canadiens Hillman. #CanHillman26

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Canadian Hillman Prizes! #CanHillman26

Listen to Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets on @wearetvo.bsky.social

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: tinyurl.com/s8t27vft

So richly deserved. This was the best, most impactful newspaper journalism I read in Canada last year.