Winning Contest Entries
Explore a diverse array of entries that have participated in our contests over the years. These entries represent the incredible talent, creativity, and dedication of journalists and storytellers from various backgrounds and media platforms.
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- Investigative (small)
Former employees say psych hospital rife with violence, record falsification and insurance fraud
Former employees of Jacksonville’s Brynn Marr Hospital allege that the facility engaged in patient record falsification and insurance manipulation. Their…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Trade Publications
Chronic Conditions
Nursing homes are beset by pervasive, longstandingquality and safety issues. A little-known federalprogram that targets the worst of the worst…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Trade Publications
Maiken Nedergaard’s power of disruption
On a Wednesday morning in November, the last day of the 2023 Society for Neuroscience meeting, Maiken Nedergaard sat on…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Trade Publications
The Quest for a Cure
Saritee Sanodiya, 26, has spent countless days wondering if she’ll ever live a “normal” life. Growing up, Sanodiya often missed…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Trade Publications
Never the Same: How mass shootings forever change the doctors who respond
The first alert about the horror typically comes from a call, text, or emergency radio transmission that might seem unremarkable:…
- 2024
First Place
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- Student
Chipped Away
Chipped Away | Part One of a Newhouse Spotlight Team Investigation Part Two: Cost of a Child’s Brain: How Some…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Student
Who shall watch the watchers?
It was a stormy night in Tenerife. The rain beat down on the Spanish island’s small airport, and a densefog…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Student
What It’s Like to Live Without the Right to Die
This episode deals with death and dying. Please take care while listening. Dr. Dani McVety 00:06 I never, if I…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Student
Silent Epidemic: Alzheimer’s Grips Bronx’s Hispanic Community
For the last four years of her mother’s life, Dalma Riquelme’s day began at 6 AM. The 63-year-old Bronx resident…
- 2024
First Place
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- Public Health (small)
Families in states with bans on trans care are finding hope across state lines
Families in states with bans on trans care are finding hope across state lines What the Past Year Has Meant…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Public Health (small)
Exposed: Latino farmworkers risk their health working under threat of pesticide exposure
Univision Noticias placed silicone wristbands on 10 farmworkers, which showed that all of them were exposed to multiple pesticides as…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Public Health (small)
Colorado’s Quiet Killer
Colorado consistently has one of the worst rates of drinking-related death in the country, but alcohol hasn’t gotten nearly the…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Public Health (small)
Tracking infectious diseases in Nigeria
Pulling back the curtain A new force emerges in genomics
- 2024
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
No Deliveries
Money-making L.A. hospitals quit delivering babies. Inside the fight to keep one labor ward open. They delivered 5,600 babies. They…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Public Health (large)
Washed Away
Martha Shaw was ready. As forecasters in September 2022 warned of a storm bearing down on Florida’s Gulf Coast, she…
- 2024
Third Place
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