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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- 2022
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
When Brazil Banned Abortion Pills, Women Turned to Drug Traffickers
RIO DE JANEIRO — Last November, Xaiana, a 23-year-old college student in northern Brazil, began exchanging text messages with a…
- 2022
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Coverage of Mental Health Care Access
MOUNT VERNON — Driving down a featureless street in Mount Vernon, Erin von Fempe spots someone she recognizes. A man…
- 2022
First Place
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- Audio Reporting (small division)
The cost of forgetting: Dementia’s tax on financial health
The signs were there: unpaid bills, unusual cash withdrawals and, oddly, the mortgage of the family home refinanced — at…
- 2022
Third Place
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- Audio Reporting (small division)
Hazard NJ Episode 3: Heart of Ringwood
Editor’s Note: “Hazard NJ” is an investigative podcast and multimedia project from NJ Spotlight News revealing the dangers climate change…
- 2022
Second Place
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- Audio Reporting (small division)
Banned: The Mississippi Case to End Roe v. Wade
A leaked draft Supreme Court opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the…
- 2022
First Place
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- Audio Reporting (large division)
Smarter Health: Artificial intelligence and the future of American health care
The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world. But Americans aren’t as healthy…
- 2022
First Place
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- Audio Reporting (large division)
Inside a Michigan clinic, patients talk about abortion — and a looming statewide vote
The night before her abortion, Melissa had to travel to another state. She drove overnight from Ohio to Michigan, and…
- 2022
Second Place
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- Audio Reporting (large division)
Killer Proteins: The Science Of Prions
Prions are biological anomalies – self-replicating, not-alive little particles that can misfold into an unstoppable juggernaut of fatal disease. Prions…
- 2022
Third Place
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- Public Health (small)
The COVID Hotels project
At the start of the pandemic, San Diego County began using hotels and motels to isolate people who had come…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Student
Unsalvageable
The goal of this investigation was to raise awareness to a grotesque and essential procedure that, in some respects, symbolizes…
- 2021
First Place
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- Student
Uncounted
Why were deaths in the United States skyrocketing? That’s the question experts were asking a year into the pandemic because-even…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Student
Our Poisoned Kids
Darlene Medley is just one of the hundreds of Syracuse parents who receive this news annually – that the shelter…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Trade Publications
Pregnancy Reborn/Uterus Transplants Hit the Clinic
This feature story describes the relatively new procedure of uterus transplantation, its budding transition from experimental to clinical, and the…
- 2021
First Place
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- Trade Publications
New ‘white glove’ debt collector could spell trouble for hospitals, patients
A not-for-profit organization is convincing hospitals across the country to donate their medical debt. It claims to then provide the…
- 2021
Second Place
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