The Sidney Prize recognises outstanding journalism published each month online and in print. It honors the best longform pieces that inform, challenge, and engage in this age of short attention spans and clickbait headlines. The winners are selected by a panel of judges and announced on the last day of every month. The winners receive a $500 honorarium and certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel; anyone can nominate.
The 2024 Sidney Prize was awarded to journalist Sam Stein for exposing how sequestration is crippling vital federal programs such as public defenders, social services and medical research. The 73rd annual Hillman Prizes also recognized the New York Times’s groundbreaking investigation into Haiti’s colonial debt, ProPublica’s story on how hospices are being privatized, and More Perfect Union’s agenda-setting videos explicating corporate greed.
University of Sydney researchers have excelled at the 2024 Eurekas, Australia’s ‘Science Oscars’, picking up four prestigious prizes in categories including innovative science, leadership, and school science engagement. Professor Mengyu Li of the School of Physics, Dr Kate Jolliffe of the School of Chemistry and the Sensory Conservation Team led by Prof Peter Banks have all won Eureka Awards.
Physicist and author Dr Edward Jones-Imhotep has won the 2023 Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). The prize, which is one of the most prestigious in the field of the history of technology, was established to honour Prof Edelstein’s dedication to connecting physics with art, culture and literature.
Overland Magazine has collaborated with the Malcolm Robertson Foundation to establish this year’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. This award rewards a winner, as well as two runners-up, with a first prize of $5000 and publication in Overland. The judges, Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh, have narrowed the shortlist to eight stories and will select a winning entry.
A group of friends has been soliciting funds to establish a prize for that piece of undergraduate writing which most nearly meets the high standards of originality and integrity set both by themselves and by the late Professor Sidney Cox, who taught them at Dartmouth and in his classes. They hope that the prize will help in a small way to perpetuate his generative influence.
The Event Cinemas Rising Talent Award honours an emerging NSW-based film creative working in short film with a cash prize of $7,000. Open to filmmakers, directors and screenwriters, the event was established in 2023 to celebrate and nurture a diverse array of Sydney’s young filmmakers.
The event will feature short films, pitching workshops and a panel discussion with top industry experts. The judges for the event will include Filmmakers, Founders and Producers from some of Sydney’s most successful independent film companies. The event is hosted by the City of Sydney and curated by Sydney Filmmakers Association President and film critic, David Aplin. Ticket sales will benefit the Event Cinemas Youth Outreach Program. More details and tickets are available here.
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