Free to enter, Hillman Prizes in Journalism (with a category for non-fiction books), top prize: $5000

Deadline: 31 January 2011

Annual Prizes Honor Journalism Dedicated to Social and Economic Justice

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations and submissions for the
2011 Hillman Prizes, which that honor investigative journalism that fosters social and economic justice.

The 2011 prizes will be given for work produced, published, broadcast, or exhibited in 2010. Our six categories will include books (non-fiction), reporting in newspaper, magazine, and online (including blogs), film and broadcast journalism (includes television and radio), and photojournalism. Authors, editors, reporters, producers and photo editors are urged to submit nominations now. The contest is open to journalists and subjects globally, although work must be published in the United States.

Note, the non-fiction book category will be open to books published in the United States and/or Canada. For our other categories, there will be a separate Canadian Hillman Prize inaugurated this year for work published in Canada.

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 is also acceptable and/or can be supplemental. Please fill out the nomination form on our website. Online and blog entries can be submitted entirely on this form.

Winners will be announced in May 2011. 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 cocktail reception and awards ceremony to be held May 19, 2011. Submissions are judged by a distinguished panel of judges: Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor, The New Yorker, Susan Meiselas, Magnum photographer, Harold Meyerson, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times columnist and editor-at-large, The American Prospect, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation, Rose Marie Arce, senior producer, CNN, and Charles Kaiser, “Full Court Press,” found on the website of the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

Please forward all nominations/submissions to:

Alexandra Lescaze
Executive Director, The Sidney Hillman Foundation
49 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10001
917-696-2494
Alex@HillmanFoundation.org

For more information, for our Nomination form, and to see past winners, please visit our website at www.hillmanfoundation.org

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