Past Contest Entries

Laura Ungar’s 2013 Body of Work

“True Beauty” profiles a Louisville woman dying of breast cancer who is devoting the rest of her life to spreading a message that illness cannot erase beauty. “Kentucky Families Struggle…” is the tale of a family dealing with a violent, mentally ill child in a disjointed mental health system. The Medicaid expansion story is a tale of adjacent states where options for poor residents are starkly different under the Affordable Care Act. The 3-D heart story focuses on a local scientist at the forefront of a growing technology who envisions someday creating 3-D hearts that could replace transplanted organs.

Place:

No Award

Year:

  • 2013

Category:

  • Beat Reporting

Affiliation:

The Courier-Journal

Reporter:

Laura Ungar

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