Awarded annually by the George Polk judges, this prize honors exceptional long-form investigative or enterprise journalism. To be considered, articles must demonstrate significant depth of reporting and reveal hidden or suppressed facts that serve the public interest. Articles should explore the causes and effects of armed conflicts; local, state or federal government corruption; military injustice; war crimes, genocide or sedition; or authoritarian government abuses. The prize, established in 1950 by the late New York Times and Newsday columnist Sidney Hillman, is named in his memory. The prize is funded by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and awarded in partnership with Overland.
Winners receive a $5,000 cash award and their work will be published in Overland’s autumn 2024 edition. The runners-up will be published online alongside the winning story. The contest is open to any Australian or New Zealand writer who has not previously been published in Overland or won a previous Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.
This year the prize was awarded to Maya Srikrishnan and Ashley Clarke for their investigation of states’ refusal to release tax data on low-income residents, which they published in The New York Times and Grist. The pair doggedly pursued the story for more than a year, interviewing low-income taxpayer clinic attorneys and scouring publicly available records to identify stalling tactics, excessive fees, and other barriers that keep state tax departments from sharing the information they’re required to collect.
Patrise Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, founders of the human rights movement Black Lives Matter, were awarded this year’s Sydney Peace Prize. Each year the prize honours a nominee who promotes “peace with justice”, and advocates for civil liberties, democracy and the battle against discrimination based on race, nationality or religion.
The award, which comes with a $3,000 cheque, recognises outstanding research in the field of social history and was founded in 2000 by Professor Ian Gleeson, who is chairperson of the committee. The prize has been described as a “crown jewel” of Australian literary awards. Previous winners include the novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the writer Peter Carey.
Awarded by the Australasian Association for the History of Technology (AHATO), this prize is open to authors of scholarly books in any area of the history of technology, including but not limited to the following:
This scholarship, established in 1996, was endowed through the generous support of friends of Yong K. Kim AB ’92, JD ’95 and family in his memory. The scholarship is offered to students of the East Asian Legal Studies program who demonstrate Yong’s interests and enthusiasm for fostering U.S.-East Asian understanding and plan careers that will advance these interests. For more information see the Yong Kim Scholarship page. To apply, click here. Submissions are due April 30. Winners will be notified by May 31.