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
On the Line, How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19
As COVID-19 began its march across the United States, reporter Michael Grabell knew in his gut where the virus would…
- 2020
First Place
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- Investigative (large)
Inside the Fall of the CDC
“Inside the Fall of the CDC” was based on hundreds of leaked emails, internal CDC documents and interviews with more…
- 2020
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
34 Years With A New Heart – And Counting
Heart transplantation is a surgery that carries significant medical gravity and cultural mystique – even 53 years after Dr. Christiaan…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Tracking the Coronavirus and Beyond
Apoorva Mandavilli took on a daunting task in 2020: explaining to readers, in real time, the nature of a virus…
- 2020
Third Place
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- Business
Meatpacking Workers in Crisis
The stories exposed the failures of companies and regulators to protect food processing workers from COVID-19 in one of the…
- 2020
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Petrie Dish: Tragedy In The Rio Grande Valley, A ‘Perfect Storm’ For A COVID-19 Outbreak
Texas was in the midst of a COVID-19 surge, but one area, in particular, was in crisis. Hospitals in the…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Investigative (small)
Careless
An 18-month Indianapolis Star investigation uncovered how government officials in Indiana took millions of dollars in federal nursing home funds…
- 2020
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
What Happened in Room 10?
“What Happened in Room 10?” was, and remains, the definitive narrative account of the first COVD-19 hotspot in the United…
- 2020
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Cutting-edge coverage of artificial intelligence in medicine
As medical AI tools have proliferated, STAT’s health tech reporters have been at the forefront of reporting on bias, ethical…
- 2020
Third 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 Reporting
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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