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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- 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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- Investigative (large)
Nursing Homes’ Fatal Failures
Defenseless and vulnerable, America’s seniors faced the brunt of the pandemic when COVID-19 swept through nursing homes. The Wall Street…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
At the start of a critical election year, in which health care was expected to be hotly debated, Lizzie Presser…
- 2020
First Place
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- Business
On the Line, How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19
As COVID-19 began its march across the United States, reporter Michael Grabell knew in his gut where the virus would…
- 2020
First Place
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- Investigative (large)
Inside the Fall of the CDC
“Inside the Fall of the CDC” was based on hundreds of leaked emails, internal CDC documents and interviews with more…
- 2020
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
34 Years With A New Heart – And Counting
Heart transplantation is a surgery that carries significant medical gravity and cultural mystique – even 53 years after Dr. Christiaan…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Tracking the Coronavirus and Beyond
Apoorva Mandavilli took on a daunting task in 2020: explaining to readers, in real time, the nature of a virus…
- 2020
Third Place
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- Business
Meatpacking Workers in Crisis
The stories exposed the failures of companies and regulators to protect food processing workers from COVID-19 in one of the…
- 2020
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Petrie Dish: Tragedy In The Rio Grande Valley, A ‘Perfect Storm’ For A COVID-19 Outbreak
Texas was in the midst of a COVID-19 surge, but one area, in particular, was in crisis. Hospitals in the…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Investigative (small)
Careless
An 18-month Indianapolis Star investigation uncovered how government officials in Indiana took millions of dollars in federal nursing home funds…
- 2020
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
What Happened in Room 10?
“What Happened in Room 10?” was, and remains, the definitive narrative account of the first COVD-19 hotspot in the United…
- 2020
Second Place
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