These stories represent a range of breaking news, news and enterprise work that demonstrates mastery of the vast and complicated health news beat in 2013, all conducted at the dizzying digital intersection of broadcast and print. JoNel Aleccia was the first to break the national story that U.S.health officials were asking to import an unapproved vaccine to halt a potentially deadly meningitis outbreak at Princeton University. She offered a though-provoking look at new science that could eliminate Down syndrome, with all of the promises and perils that entails. She offered a fresh analysis of one potential solution to the looming doctor shortage predicted as the ACA kicks in: rural nurse practitioners. And she tracked one of the last iron lung survivors in the U.S. to remind readers why the devastating outbreak in Syria might matter to them.
