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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Perils of the New Pesticides
An analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data by the Center for Public Integrity shows that the number of reported human…
- 2008
First Place
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- 000 circ.)
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- Small Newspapers (under 90
Alone Among Us
While stigma has long been associated with mental health care, the story explores the even greater stigma faced by Hispanics…
- 2008
Third Place
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- 000 circ.)
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- Small Newspapers (under 90
Systemwide Flaws Plagued Heparin Recall
After recall alerts about heparin began pouring in from across the country, pharmacists scoured medicine cabinets, whisked tainted heparin away…
- 2008
Second Place
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- 000 circ.)
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- Small Newspapers (under 90
What Lies Beneath
In July 2007, the Fayetteville, N.C., City Council learned about a neighborhood's 20-year fight over gasoline contamination in private drinking…
- 2008
First Place
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- 000 circ.)
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- 000-250
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- Medium Newspapers (90
The New Addiction
The Las Vegas Sun analyzed the Drug Enforcement Administration's controlled substances consumption database and discovered that Nevadans, per capita, are…
- 2008
Third Place
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- 000 circ.)
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- 000-250
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- Medium Newspapers (90
Dangerous and Mentally Ill
Carol Smith's stories focused on different aspects of a system that led to a random killing by a severely mentally…
- 2008
Second Place
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- 000 circ.)
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- 000-250
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- Medium Newspapers (90
Transplanting Too Soon
The initial three-part series focused on the practice of doing liver transplants on patients who don't need them because their…
- 2008
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
2008 Body of Work
"Peddling Pills" examined the relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical sales reps, and detailed unethical behavior directly witnessed by the reporter.…
- 2008
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
2008 Body of Work
Carol Smith explores the complexities of a failing mental health system, a dental death investigation and a story about the…
- 2008
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
2008 Body of Work
Clark Kauffman's work included stories that showed the state and federal government were paying $8.1 million per year to Iowa…
- 2008
First Place
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- 000 circ.) & wire services
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- Large Newspapers (over 250
The Partners Effect
This series focuses on an out-of balance health care finance system that rewards a few big hospitals, paying them far…
- 2008
Third Place
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- 000 circ.) & wire services
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- Large Newspapers (over 250
At the Edge of Life
"At the Edge of Life" explores palliative care's transformative effect for hospital patients and families and clinicians facing life-threatening illness.…
- 2008
Third Place
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- 000 circ.) & wire services
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- Large Newspapers (over 250
The Evidence Gap
A team of science and business reporters was asked to find out how and why the United States spends so…
- 2008
Second Place
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- 000 circ.) & wire services
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- Large Newspapers (over 250
In Their Debt
In the early 1970s, Maryland officials devised a system – now the only one in the nation – in which the…
- 2008
Second Place
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- 000 circ.) & wire services
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- Large Newspapers (over 250
Fixing Mr. Fix-It
Plain Dealer reporter Diane Suchetka looks at the problems that beset the survivor of a horrendous accident and its toll…
- 2008
First Place
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