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 (large)
A Flawed Nursing Home Rating System
The choice of which nursing home to send a loved one to is among the most wrenching decisions that many…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Investigative (small)
Death Sentence
“Death Sentence” is a yearslong investigation by The Indianapolis Star which revealed, for the first time, that more than 300…
- 2021
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
The Painful Price for Healthcare
This investigation found that a nonprofit hospital in Mississippi was suing thousands of low-wage and poor Mississippians – including more…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Investigative (small)
Mission Act project
inewsource’s investigation chronicled the struggles veterans have had trying to access much-needed medical treatments outside the VA, the federally funded…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution
In a groundbreaking data analysis that the EPA’s own staffers praised as “a wake-up call” and “a huge bucket of…
- 2021
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
Dangerous heat, unequal consequences
Our investigation revealed how today’s heat illnesses connect to decades-old discrimination. We focused on heat-related illnesses in Arizona and Florida,…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Public Health (large)
The Systemic Neglect of Sickle Cell Disease
Over more than two years, Gina Kolata and John Eligon followed the lives of people with sickle cell, an inherited…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Public Health (small)
Shots Fired
The three-part series sought to understand why so many fatal police shootings in New Hampshire involved someone with a mental…
- 2021
First Place
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- Public Health (small)
How Florida left farmworkers out of its COVID-19 pandemic response
The reporting showed how the state of Florida failed farmworkers during the pandemic. The story pointed to the lack of…
- 2021
Second 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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