The Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards Journalists With 2025 Hillman Prizes 

The Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling “in service of the common good” since 1950. In recognition of some of the most compelling journalistic work in the industry,  The Hillman Prizes “strive to recognize discernment of a significant news story, resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skill in relating the story, and the impact of the coverage.”

On the 75th anniversary of the organization, the 2025 Hillman Prizes for journalism were awarded.

Held at the Times Center in New York City on Tuesday evening (May 13), several distinguished journalists received awards in several categories. For Book Journalism, Jonathan Blitzer won for Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis, Penguin Press.

Jennifer Gollan and Susie Neilson’s “Fast and Fatal” for the San Francisco Chronicle took home the prize for Newspaper Journalism.

For Magazine Journalism, Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti won for “The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel” in The New York Times Magazine.

Dan Slepian, Dawn Porter, and Kimberley Ferdinando’s The Sing Sing Chronicles, NBC News Studios & MSNBC Films, won the prize for Broadcast Journalism.

The SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice went to Robin McDowell and Margie Mason, “Prison to Plate”, Associated Press.

Elie Mystal of The Nation won the Opinion & Analysis Journalism award for “Justice Correspondent”, The Nation.

In his moving acceptance speech, Mystal told the cheering audience the commitment that it takes to be a journalist in these times.

“If you feel like you can go to Washington, DC right now and have no chance of getting into a fight, you’re doing it wrong,” he said. “Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the acceptance of fear and doing what we must do anyway. And so I want to thank the Hillman people very much again for this honor.”