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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- 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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- Audio Reporting (large division)
Inside Big Health Insurers’ Side Hustle
America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s…
- 2021
First Place
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- Audio Reporting (large division)
CTE Beyond the NFL
The degenerative brain condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy is largely considered a problem for professional football players, but NPR’s “CTE Beyond…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Audio Reporting (large division)
Misinformation, Politics and Vaccines
In a two-part series, we lay out how a toxic mix of politics and disinformation are shaping public health outcomes…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Audio Reporting (small division)
Nurse burnout begins to really burn
I spent much of the second half of 2021 connecting with ICU nurses and build trust with them to let…
- 2021
First Place
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- Audio Reporting (small division)
After the Assault
CapRadio’s “After the Assault” is a health reporting podcast series that explores what survivors experience in the aftermath of sexual…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Audio Reporting (small division)
Hunting for Ticks
Climate change is making Maine more hospitable to ticks and mosquitoes that transmit diseases to humans. Vector ecologists say monitoring…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
Beat Reporting: Health Equity
I have tackled a new beat on health disparities reporting by trying to demonstrate what structural racism looks like on…
- 2021
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
Health care reporting 2021
In 2021, Alex augmented his coronavirus reporting with a series of stories on mental health issues in Kansas and Missouri.…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Student Reporting
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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