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  • 04/03/2025
04/03/2025
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The Sidney Prize for Investigative Journalism

The Hillman Foundation presents The Sydney Prize monthly to outstanding investigative journalism that promotes social justice. Winners receive $500 and an Edward Sorel certificate, designed for them by New Yorker cartoonist. You can learn more about this prize and its past recipients at AJL’s Sydney Taylor Book Award blog.

Since 1946, the Hillman Foundation is a left-of-center organization offering financial prizes to writers and journalists. Named in honor of former Amalgamated Clothing Workers union President Sidney Hillman, its board of directors includes leaders from Workers United and SEIU; additionally it features an advisory council made up of celebrities including actor Danny Glover.

Richard Ho and Lynn Scurfield for Two New Years; Mari Lowe for The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman; and Elana K Arnold for Blood Years have won this year’s Sidney Award. For more information, listen to a podcast interview with our committee chair or read reviews of winning titles on The AJL Bookshelf or in our mock awards blog The Sydney Taylor Shmooze; Sydney Taylor seals can also be purchased to place on copies of worthy works!

Tony Judt, professor of history at New York University and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, takes an in-depth look at how the AIDS crisis unfolded in America and affected both individuals and society alike. Additionally, he explores how media coverage was affected by political forces of the day.

Dr Clare Jackson has received multiple accolades since 2014 when she won the Bruton Award for her research into royalist ideas in late-17th-century Scotland. A graduate of Sidney and former Junior Research Fellow, Jackson is widely seen as one of the most promising historians of her generation.

This prize is supported by the Irving Oberman Memorial Fund, created to commemorate its founder by an estate bequest from Isabel B. Oberman A.B 1917. Each year, its proceeds support an award presented by the dean of the School for an outstanding paper written by one or more students on any one of seven current legal topics: bankruptcy; constitutional law and equal justice under law; environmental law; family law; intellectual property law and legal history.

AJL is delighted to support the Hillman Prize, an annual award which recognizes outstanding investigative journalism in service to the common good. It recognizes writers whose journalism exposes social and economic injustices while drawing attention to our freedom to inform and engage – we’re excited to partner with the prestigious Hillman Foundation to offer this prize honoring ethical, independent journalism that advances public interest! Please consider supporting this important effort! For more information about the prize and selection criteria please click here.

04/03/2025
By mnblackchamber In Gambling Blog

Hong Kong Prize Winner Announced

This year’s Hongkong Prize, an esteemed international science and technology award, will see its recipient awarded with a sum of HK$100 Million. Hosted by Bank of China Hong Kong as part of their Hong Kong Alliance of Technology and Innovation programme, BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize (BOC STIP) seeks to expand Hong Kong into an international innovation and technology hub by attracting top scientific talent, nurturing forward-looking scientists, and publicizing their achievements to the wider world.

Today saw the 8th Inter-school Competition of Study Projects on Hong Kong History and Culture hosted jointly by the Museum of History and Hong Kong Institute for Promotion of Chinese Culture. Students participating were required to research various aspects of Hong Kong’s unique historical status while considering how past developments impact and change society today.

Tonight is the Hongkong Prize draw and no first-prize winner was found last week; leaving an estimated snowball jackpot of HK$102 Million up for grabs tonight at Stanley Street’s “luckiest” betting station, where customers began lining up an hour early to place bets.

To ensure the fairness of Hongkong Prize draws, HKJC employs various measures, such as having its customer service and security departments present throughout. All balls used are also regularly weighed and examined prior to each draw and after. Finally, its draw machine undergoes regular X-raying tests as part of this process.

At this year’s ceremony, in addition to main prizes were several merit awards presented. One was “The Trembling Ground”, an educational project from Diocesan Girls’ School; another went to Lui Cheung Kwong Lutheran College for their project titled “Relationship between China and Hong Kong”, while others include films such as “Port of Call,” which depicted police officer Chan Chun-ming’s self-immolation during Hong Kong protests in 2019, or a documentary made jointly by Polytechnic University of Hong Kong and Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

The Hongkong Prize is open to all Fellows of the Academy with original articles published in HKJO. Eligible studies include prospective or retrospective clinical studies, observational and epidemiological studies, meta-analyses and basic science research across all areas of medicine. Submissions that consist of case reports, review articles or letters to the editor will not be considered; please visit the Academy website for more details.

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