ThinkProgress gets 2008 Sidney Hillman award for Best Blog

    The New York Times recently announced that "The Progress Report" has been awarded the 2008 Sidney Hillman award for the Best Blog.

    Sidney Hillman was one of the the United States' great labor leaders, founding a predecessor union of UNITE. Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has recognized journalists, writers, and public figures whose work promote social and economic justice. Each year, an independent panel of judges awards a prize in the categories of book, newspaper, magazine, broadcast media, photojournalism and blogs published or aired in the previous year.  
 
This year's judges were Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor of The New Yorker; Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation; Harold Meyerson, editor at large of the American Prospect; Susan Meiselas, independent photojournalist; and Rose Arce, senior editor at CNN.
 
Since it was launched less than three years ago, ThinkProgress, has developed an important role for itself as an influential voice in the world of blogs. Now ranked 26th most popular blog in the world with an audience of over one million unique visitors a month, it has already ascended to the ranks of the top three most popular political blogs.

Among its achievements last year were:  documenting the lack of accountability over the Iraq war architects, revealing the conservative smear campaign against 12 year-old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost, and analyzing the right-wing domination of talk radio and its negative effects.

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