** ATTENTION EDITORS AND AWARDS COORDINATORS **
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE HILLMAN PRIZES IN JOURNALISM
DUE JANUARY 31, 2012
— Annual Prizes Honor Socially Conscious Journalism —
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. Our
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 photos 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, we will also accept nominations in the
category of opinion journalism, for commentary and analysis in any medium.
If you are unsure about which category your work fits into, just go ahead and submit, and the
foundation will determine the best category for it.
The postmark deadline for all nominations and submissions is January 31, 2011. There is
no submission fee. A cover letter and four copies of the nominated material are all that are
required. For photojournalism entries, we would most like to see tear sheets (photos 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 our website at:
http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/nominations-0
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
our awards ceremony and cocktail reception to be held Tuesday May 1, 2012.
Submissions are 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.
You can see previous winners at: http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/2011-hillman-prizes
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 any questions, please contact:
Alexandra Lescaze – Executive Director, The Sidney Hillman Foundation
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