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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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Her Time
Journalist Katie Engelhart follows Debra Koosed, a 65-year-old dementia patient, on her journey to end her own life. Oregon, where…
- 2019
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
No Mercy
Rural America is plagued by poorer health, lower median incomes and higher rates of death than urban areas. Yet, more…
- 2019
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Cost of Dying
The reporting project started out with a look at the hospice industry and wound up being mostly about the increasing…
- 2019
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
The potent effects of Japan’s stem cell policies
Patients around the world are getting duped into buying dodgy stem cell treatments, while governmental regulators play catch up. But…
- 2019
First Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Healing Justice
“Healing Justice” was a two-day series that examined how improved mental health care in U.S. communities and prisons could reduce…
- 2019
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Sick, Broke and Left Behind
The people living in Ballad Health’s service region die younger and have higher incidents of diseases and illicit drug use…
- 2019
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Deadly Germs, Lost Cures
Antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs — miracle medicines that have saved tens of millions of lives since they became widely…
- 2019
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
Cancer Cloud
More than 400,000 public housing tenants live in areas at highest risk for indoor radon, our analysis found. Over a…
- 2019
Second Place
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- Public Health (small)
Mental Health: A Crisis in Colorado
With Mental Health: A Crisis in Colorado, The Gazette of Colorado Springs launched a year long-endeavor encompassing some two dozen…
- 2019
Second Place
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- Public Health (small)
Kentucky’s ‘too slow’ response to the nation’s worst hepatitis A outbreak
The Courier-Journal’s investigative series on the vaccine-preventable disease hepatitis A revealed how state health leaders failed to stop a hepatitis…
- 2019
Third Place
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- Business
Profiting from the Poor
A grocery store clerk who made $9.05 an hour owed Memphis’ largest health care system more than $33,000. If she…
- 2019
First Place
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- Business
Death by 1,000 clicks
The three-part series revealed how a $36 billion federal program to shift from paper to electronic medical records has gone…
- 2019
Second Place
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- Business
Biologic drugs
Over the last 20 years, nearly two dozen powerful, immune-suppressing drugs that treat conditions such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis…
- 2019
Third Place
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- Student
Killing of patient, allegations of dangerous care haunt South L.A. psychiatric hospital
Jacob Masters was killed in a South Los Angeles psychiatric hospital in 2017 and one of his roommates was charged…
- 2019
First Place
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- Student
123 have unexpectedly died in nursing homes, but Arizona still gives them top grades
Arizona is one of a few states in the U.S. that uses its own ranking system for its nursing homes…
- 2019
Second Place
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