The Sidney Hillman Foundation is accepting submissions and nominations for the Hillman Prizes, which are given annually to honor investigative journalism that fosters social and economic justice.
Prize winners will be awarded with travel to New York City to receive $5,000 and a certificate designed by New Yorker Cartoonist, Edward Sorel (the awards ceremony will be held on 19 May 2011.
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.
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