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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- Business
Is Your DNA Safe in Blackstone’s Hands?
The private equity firm Blackstone now owns the DNA data of 18 million people, following the $4.7 billion acquisition of…
- 2021
First Place
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- Business
Michael Schulson_Dispensing Doctors
For decades, a portion of physicians in the U.S. have bypassed the pharmacy and sold drugs directly to patients, sometimes…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Business
Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem
For years, residents living amid Florida’s sugar fields have complained about cane burning, a harvesting method that produces more than…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Unchecked: America’s Broken Food Safety System
We analyzed genomic sequencing data to show that even after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its outbreak…
- 2021
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Hastening Death
The hardest and most personal story that Deprez has ever written by a long shot, “How I Helped My Dad…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Choosing Hope
Rare diseases, by definition, affect a small number of people, from as few as one or two, up to as…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Portrait of a Professional Baby Maker
What’s it like to be a professional baby maker? Rachel Lehmann-Haupt explores Oregon resident Tyra Reeder’s firsthand experience as a…
- 2021
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
The journey of one pregnant woman who almost died of COVID-19
When the delta variant of COVID-19 spread across the U.S., reporter Jennifer Berry Hawes began to hear reports that an…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
The Champion for Rare Disease Cures
No small group with a particular rare genetic mutation can raise the mountains of cash required to develop a drug…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Out of Control: America’s losing battle against diabetes
In the series “Out of Control,” Reuters exposed the U.S. medical establishment’s mismanagement of the diabetes epidemic and the tragic…
- 2021
First Place
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- Health Policy (large)
One home, many generations: States addressing COVID risk among families
Multigenerational households, which can span grandparents down to grandchildren, are common in communities of color, immigrant communities and low-income families.…
- 2021
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
The Broken Front Line
A steady stream of reporting has focused on emergency rooms, intensive care units and the crumbling hospital workforce as they…
- 2021
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
The TennCare Trap: How one state’s war on Medicaid fraud ensnares working moms in Alabama
For this story, I investigated how Tennessee prosecutes Medicaid fraud among people living just across the border in Alabama. They…
- 2021
First Place
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- Health Policy (small)
From maggots to sex abuse, nursing homes sue California to overturn citations, fines
Already paralyzed from a stroke and suffering from COVID-19 pneumonia, the 65-year-old man contracted a serious infection and landed in…
- 2021
Second 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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