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NEW YORK — Robert J. Lopez, Barbara Davidson, and Lorena Iñiguez Elebee win the December Sidney Award for their two-part series exposing child labor abuses on California farms, produced in partnership...

NEW YORK — Emily L. Mahoney and Langston Taylor of the Tampa Bay Times win the November Sidney Award for “Undocumented Workers Built Florida’s Roads — And Died in the Process,” which reveals how Arche...

NEW YORK — Josh Eidelson wins the October Sidney Award for his feature in Bloomberg Businessweek, “How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant.” The story documents the massive cuts t...

Jordan Green wins the August Sidney Award for his feature in The Assembly, “I’ve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry.” In early 2024, Green sat in a hotel room with his wife...

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Michael Bell, set to be executed Tuesday, is among at least 34 boys from the Dozier School later sentenced to death. Did abuse make them more violent?

The staff of the Los Angeles Times win the July Sidney Award for the paper’s coverage of federal immigration raids. Los Angeles is the current epicenter of the Trump administration’s sweeping immigrat...

The Maynard Regional Training Series is the Maynard Institute's new training program for frontline editors and managers working in any platform -- e.g., print, broadcast and digital. It will provide ...

Anna Bauman, formerly of Open Vallejo, wins the June Sidney Award for tenaciously peeling back layers of official secrecy to expose Darryl Mefferd’s death in police custody. On a cold December night i...

Zachary Sampson, Shreya Vuttaluru and Bethany Barnes win the May Sidney Award for “Wasting Away,” a Tampa Bay Times investigation into the mass die-off of manatees in Florida. The manatee is a gentle ...

Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work.

Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias win the April Sidney Award for ‘You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos,’ a Mother Jones feature revealing that young Latino men are being deported without due process because of innocuous tattoos. The Trump administration falsely claims the tattoos indicate affiliation with Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang. Tattoos are marks of

After a Times investigation found rising contamination, congressional leaders sound alarm.

A Times analysis of millions of water samples found dangerous contamination across the state.

WIRED wins the March Sidney Award for coverage of the Department of Government Efficiency’s assault on the federal government. As soon as Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing Elon Musk t...

Leo Schofield says the state should exonerate him, name another man as his wife’s killer

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