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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- Public Health (large)
Understanding Homelessness and Mental Illness
The Man in Room 117 Under an L.A. Freeway, a Psychiatric Rescue Mission24, and Trying to Outrun Schizophrenia
- 2024
Second Place
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- Public Health (large)
Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health
The US Department of Agriculture’s headquarters are situated on a tony stretch of DC real estate, a world away from…
- 2024
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
Bad Connections
California paid millions to access a mental health app. It wasn’t safe for users. Talking to someone online for emotional…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Investigative (small)
Savior Complex
An Idaho safe house claimed it was saving trafficking victims. Women said it was like being “trafficked all over again.”…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Investigative (small)
Out of Options
Widespread sex abuse reported at Indy mental health facility Indy mental health facility was ‘kennel for vulnerable people,’ patient says…
- 2024
First Place
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- Investigative (large)
Medical errors, patient deaths, negligent surgeons: A Philadelphia approach to hospital accountability
LEFT BEHIND A medical gray zone Nurses left patient to die at Penn Medicine hospital. State inspectors issued a severe…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Investigative (large)
Shots in the Dark: Why Counterfeit Ozempic is a Global Growth Industry
In early December, James Pinckney II, MD, stood in a cold warehouse in Elmira, New York, surveying what looked like the…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
A Sobering Scandal
Promises, bribes, threats: How victims of Arizona substance abuse treatment scams were targeted Scammers took billions in taxpayer money through…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Investigative (large)
Steward Health Care investigation
Steward’s medical devices were repossessed. Weeks later, a new mother died. They died in hallways. In line. Alone. Inside the…
- 2024
First Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Oklahoma sends a growing number of kids with complex needs out of state for treatment
Amber Boyer spent early mornings last spring crawling out of her bedroom window and into her garage to make breakfast…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Gone Too Soon
‘People die like that’: Native Americans face serious barriers in accessing care ‘You don’t want to be part of this…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Atrium Health: A unit of ‘local government’ like no other
Atrium Health: A unit of ‘local government’ like no otherSome lawmakers call for review of decades-old law that governs hospital…
- 2024
First Place
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- Health Policy (large)
‘Total system breakdown’: California firefighters with PTSD face a workers’ comp nightmare
‘Total system breakdown’: California firefighters with PTSD face a workers’ comp nightmare ‘Excruciatingly slow’: Delays in workers’ comp payments harm…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Life of the Mother
Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable. A Pregnant Teenager Died…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
The War on Recovery
How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic Rigid rules at methadone clinics…
- 2024
First Place
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