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
Putting a New Face on Depression Treatment,’ Provider
The article looks at a growing number of physicians and mental-health professionals in long-term care who are employing non-pharmacologic, person-centered…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Shedding Light on U.S. Drug Makers,’ Dow Jones News Wire
The first story highlights coming clinical data on three prescription weight-loss therapies in development by separate small pharmaceutical companies. The…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines below 1 million circ.
Medical Muzzle,’ Angie’s List magazine
Medical Justice, a company founded by neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Segal in 2001, sells contracts to doctors that prohibit patients from…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
The Health Care Crisis Hits Home,’ Time magazine
After 15 years of covering health care policy, reporter Karen Tumulty found herself in a situation in which the story…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Florida’s Blood Centers,’ Orlando Sentinel
Reporter Dan Tracy discovered conflicts of interest at the Orlando-based Florida’s Blood Centers, the nation’s fourth-largest independent blood bank. Among…
- 2009
No Award
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- 2TV (Below Top 20 markets)
The Color of Health, Part 1: A Growing Solution to the Food Desert Crisis
This series examines the growing divide between the health care "haves" and "have-nots" in racially segregated Chicago. A disproportionate number…
- 2009
Third Place
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
Ill in a Day’s Work,’ More magazine
133 million Americans are suffering from chronic illness. These illnesses affect more women than men and that they often start…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
The Changing Face of Medicine,’ MedPage Today
Over the past 25 years, there have been incredible advances made in medicine. HIV/AIDS is now a chronic condition, for…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
Killer Sex,’ MORE magazine
One in three women newly infected by HIV is over 40 years old; one in four is between ages 40…
- 2009
No Award
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- Radio
Understanding Illness,’ WNYC
Two teens learn about illness by studying their own lives. One looks at the effect radiation from Chernobyl has had…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
Frozen Dreams,’ Parenting magazine
This story focused on parents, the voice often left out of news coverage of the question of surplus embryos. Much…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Shortened Lives,’ Bay Area News Group
Sandy Kleffman and Suzanne Bohan analyzed and mapped life expectancy, child asthma hospitalization rates, and heart disease and cancer death…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Twins in Demand Through IVF,’ WebMD
These stories were done in the wake of the "OctoMom" births. Instead of focusing on extreme cases of multiple births,…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat Reporting, Jennifer Brown, Denver Post
Brown writes about teenagers with cancer attending a special prom, the transition of a 1-year-old girl who was born deaf…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Me and the Girls: Personal Stories from Breast Cancer Survivors,’ WebMD
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, WebMD created a package of personal stories from nine women who have faced breast cancer,…
- 2009
No Award
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