The Sydney Prize is a monthly award that honors outstanding journalism published during the previous month. It recognizes both online and print publications, including newspapers, magazines and blogs. Nominations are due by the last day of each month and can be submitted by anyone, anywhere. The winner receives a $500 honorarium and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel. Longform journalism and thought pieces remain effective ways to inform, inspire and challenge readers in an age of short attention spans and clickbait headlines.
In 2024, the Event Cinemas Rising Talent Award recognises an emerging film creative whose work stands for innovation and imagination with a cash prize of $7,000. The award is open to filmmakers, directors and screenwriters with no more than five short film credits. Previous winners include the creators of The Dancing Girl and Balloon Man.
Each year, the Sydney Peace Prize honours a person or organisation that works to promote and encourage peaceful conflict resolution and non-violence. The prize is awarded in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Australian Academy for Human Rights and Justice (AAHJ).
The Sidney Hillman Foundation awards the Hillman Prizes in both the U.S and Canada, as well as the monthly Sidney Prize, to investigative journalism in service of the common good. The Hillman Foundation believes that exposing social and economic injustices can help to change the world for the better.
For a decade, journalists Maya Srikrishnan and Ashley Clarke worked tirelessly on a piece that would reveal the shocking ways that low-income taxpayers in America are getting behind on state income taxes. They fought for years to gain access to public data, and did so while also interviewing low-income tax clinic attorneys and analyzing state collection and enforcement policies. The result was a deeply reported and profoundly important story that resonated across the country.
York University Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep is the recipient of this year’s Sidney Edelstein Prize for his book, The Unreliable Nation: Disasters and Technology in Modern History. The prize was established by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) in 1968 in memory of its founder, Sidney Edelstein, a distinguished scholar and a pioneer in the field of the history of technology. The prize is the most prestigious in SHOT’s 50-year history.