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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- 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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- Trade Publications
How COVID broke the evidence pipeline
This feature story explained that the pandemic stress-tested the way the world produces and synthesises medical evidence – and revealed…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Lives on Hold
A 2013 Wisconsin law prevents laid-off workers on federal disability from getting state unemployment. When the pandemic came, Wisconsin denied…
- 2020
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
Covid ‘Long-Haulers’ and Their Lingering Medical Bills
For many survivors of COVID-19, the suffering really hasn’t ended. Many struggle with long-term heart, kidney and lung damage; severe…
- 2020
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
Making change: Covering the effort to transform local health
The stories submitted here were published as part of a regular, monthly series in Health Affairs called Leading to Health,…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Public Health (large)
Last Words
The Globe Spotlight team’s exploration of the end of life laid bare, through data and narrative, how our society’s inequities…
- 2020
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
Cracking the meat-allergy mystery with the tick-bite link
When my friend Peter first told me he was allergic to mammalian meat in 2008, I thought he was joking.…
- 2020
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Hard Lives Made Harder by COVID: Homeless Endure a ‘Slow-Moving Train Wreck’
This was supposed to be the year that California finally did something about its epidemic of homelessness. Then the pandemic…
- 2020
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
Health care reporting 2020
1) Kansas Health Department’s Hopeful-Looking COVID-19 Assessments Are Drastically Undercounting Cases – Smith found that Kansas’s health department was not…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
COVID-19 Pandemic Reporting
Krieger’s first story on the pandemic, “What you need to know about the mysterious coronavirus,” came January 24, 2020, with…
- 2020
First Place
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- Business
The Race for a Vaccine
No news organization penetrated the chase for a COVID-19 vaccine and captured the triumphs, challenges, conflicts and opportunism like The…
- 2020
Second Place
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