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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- 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 (large)
Hooked: The Opioid Crisis
As deaths from powerful opioid drugs exploded, a team of Wall Street Journal reporters uncovered how fentanyl and other synthetic…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Wounded Care
We noticed back in February, a member of the Winnebago tribe (a Native American group in Nebraska) was pleading with…
- 2016
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Child’s scraped knee a life or death matter in Venezuela
This narrative feature tells the story of how shortages of medicine in Venezuela turned a 3-year-old’s scraped knee into a…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
The Crisis Within
Reporter Nancy Cambria and photographer Laurie Skrivan spent seven months in Ferguson, Mo., in 2015 reporting on toxic stress experienced…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Politics of Pain
This investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press examines the politics behind the nation’s opioid addiction…
- 2016
First 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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- Health Policy (large)
Obamacare’s Sinking Safety Net
Paul Demko’s comprehensive investigation of the state of the Affordable Care Act’s fledgling insurance marketplaces foreshadowed their struggles as the…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
On the Cusp of a Cure
The Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania is perched on the front lines in a turning point on the war on cancer,…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Managed Care : An Iowa family’s journey
Iowa transitioned almost the entirety of its Medicaid program from a state-run system to three managed-care organizations on April 1.…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
The Looming Threat of Factory-farm Superbugs
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from livestock pose a deadly risk to people. But the farm lobby won’t let scientists track the danger.…
- 2016
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
The End of AIDS?
As scientists and researchers were about to gather in South Africa for the International AIDS Conference last summer, the PBS…
- 2016
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
Shoot to Kill
With no dependable, uniform data on gun violence, it’s impossible to get even a simple tally of the number of…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Public Health (small)
For All They Know
Months after the spotlight of the national media had moved on from Flint, Mich., Undark writer Steve Friess moved in.…
- 2016
Second Place
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