The New York Labor History Association is accepting entries for the Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize. The award is named for Debra Bernhardt, a former head of the Wagner Labor Archives, who helped to document a comprehensive history of our city’s working men and women. The $500 prize will be awarded for the best article or series of articles published in a labor or worker center publication, or by an independent journalist, and is open to submissions written between January 2014 and August 30, 2015. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, September 1, 2015.
The award is co-sponsored by:
- The Labor Arts;
- The Metro NY Labor Communications Council;
- The Wagner Labor Archives at NYU’s Tamiment Library; and
- The NYC Central Labor Council.
NWU is the sole provider of IFJ Press Passes to freelance journalists in the U.S.