The Best of the Week’s News:

• Uber Drivers and labor unions sue to overturn California’s Prop 22. (CNN, LA Times)
   
• Employees at the Canada Goose coat factory in Winnipeg say working conditions are for the birds. (Vice)
   
• The legendary Chicago Reporter is fighting for survival. (The Nation)
   
• Most House Republicans voted to finish what the Capitol rioters started. (Atlantic) 
   
• New York’s Filipino nurses brace for the next wave of COVID. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The air you breathe on a jet plane comes directly through the engine, which is perfectly safe… until it isn’t. (LA Times)
   
• Amazon is turning warehouse work from a middle class career to a dead-end job. (Bloomberg) 
   
• “No Choice but to Do It”: A new analysis reveals how abusive men land women in prison. (New Republic) 
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Rachel Louise Snyder, an expert on the effects of domestic violence, pleads for a death row reprieve for Lisa Montgomery. (NYT)
   
• UM fires a distinguished history professor after he criticizes the carceral state and, most importantly, the university’s racist donors. (MS Free Press)
   
• How systemic racism destroys Black people’s kidneys and then pushes transplants out of reach. (ProPublica) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Google illegally fired and surveilled workers trying organize, the NLRB alleges. (VICE)
   
• As COVID radicalizes workers, ambulance attendants say the pandemic is pushing them to the brink. (TNR, WaPo) 
   
• How Maine lawmen run amok. (Bangor Daily News) 
   
• Unifor leader Jerry Dias triumphs, convinces GM to stay in Oshawa, Ontario. (Financial Post)

Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the Call for Entries for the 2021 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now!

The Hillman Prizes celebrate investigative reporting and deep storytelling that highlights social or economic injustice and contributes to meaningful public policy change. 

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• Book 
• Newspaper Reporting
• Magazine Reporting 
• Broadcast Journalism 
• Web Journalism 
• Opinion & Analysis Journalism 

Hillman Prize winners will be awarded a $5,000 honorarium and a certificate at an event to be held in New York City on May 4^th (or celebrated virtually, depending on the status of the coronavirus pandemic).

Deadline for applications is January 30, 2021. There is no fee to enter. 

Click here for full details, and to enter online.