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 (small)
What’s killing Indiana’s infants
Your ZIP code matters more than your genetic code. Where you live predicts how long you will live. That’s what…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
April Dembosky’s 2017 Body of Work
April Dembosky’s work this year demonstrates a range of reporting skills, from meeting relentless breaking news deadlines on Congressional efforts…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
The new price of hope
Almost exactly a year after the US Food and Drug Administration approved a revolutionary new genetic treatment for spinal muscular…
- 2017
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
To save a life, doctors turn to bacteria-killing viruses
The story is about the use of bacteriophage therapy, an experimental therapy using bacteria-killing viruses, to save the life of…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Voice of the People
The FDA considers input from the public when they approve new drugs. The legacy of the AIDS epidemic has helped…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
In harm’s way
As the health and medicine reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, I had a hunch that pediatric gun injuries were…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Urgent for care: Can Missouri’s poorest county keep its hospital alive?
This was a series of stories unpacking the challenges that have caused 80 rural hospital to close since 2010 and…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Losing Conner’s Mind
First came seizures. Then Conner Beish started losing words. Before long, the four-year-old was struggling to walk. It was as…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Investigative (large)
Investigating OxyContin
A three-part investigation of the nation’s bestselling painkiller, OxyContin, revealed how decisions by manufacturer Purdue Pharma, including the cover-up of…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
Suffering in Secret
The homes — and the problems inside them — were meant to be invisible. While reading a routine state report, reporter Michael…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Investigative (large)
Dangerous Doses
This innovative investigation into dangerous prescription drug interactions yielded groundbreaking science and sparked safety reforms at pharmacies nationwide. In “The…
- 2016
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
At California Psychiatric Hospitals, Epidemic of Patients’ Assaults on Staff Goes Untreated
California’s network of state psychiatric hospitals is charged with treating people with mental illness who pose a danger to themselves…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Investigative (small)
Painkiller Profiteers
The Gazette-Mail tracked the deluge of prescription opioids into West Virginia, following them to individual counties, pharmacies and families. The…
- 2016
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
Instrumental Risk
A six-month Detroit News investigation revealed that five Detroit Medical Center hospitals were plagued with dirty, broken and missing surgical…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
The puzzle solver: A researcher changes course to help his son
This is a feature on a researcher’s race to solve the biochemical puzzle of chronic fatigue syndrome — the disease afflicting…
- 2016
Second Place
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