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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- Beat Reporting
Fred Mogul’s 2015 Body of Work
Overview: these stories show the breadth of my work as a Health Beat Reporter — combining investigative, enterprise, expository and…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Business
Deadly Outbreaks, Dangerous Scopes
Exclusive reporting by Chad Terhune and Melody Petersen linked the outbreak of deadly superbug infections at UCLA and other hospitals…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Investigative (small)
Fields of Toxic Pesticides Surround the Schools of Ventura County — Are They Poisoning the Student
California’s $43 billion agricultural industry and pesticide regulators have long argued that Latino children attending schools near intensively farmed plots…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Poverty’s Poison
Nationally, the steady decline in cases of childhood lead poisoning is considered a major public health success story. But a…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Business
Medicare Advantage Overcharges
Medicare Advantage is a fast growing alternative to traditional Medicare coverage run mostly by private insurance companies. These health plans…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Drug Problems: Dangerous Decision-Making at the FDA
The public depends on the FDA to ensure that medicines are safe and effective, but through many months and almost…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Maternal health: Ebola’s lasting legacy
As of March 2015, Ebola had infected more than 23,900 people, killing more than 40% of them. As fears escalated…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Public Health (small)
The missing generation
The story describes the ‘missing generation’ of people with autism: adults who grew up long before autism became part of…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Tiniest preemies, toughest decision
When children are born between 23 and 25 weeks of gestation, doctors leave it to the parents to decide when…
- 2015
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Growing a family tree: Finding lost relatives is getting easier with genetic testing & social media
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA testing and social media are helping people find family, including sperm donor parents, biological parents who gave…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Hidden Errors
In this investigation, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Ellen Gabler found that laboratories across the nation are not following basic policies…
- 2015
First Place
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- Investigative (large)
Injured Nurses
When you or a loved one checks into a hospital, maybe you get great care. But Injured Nurses reveals that…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Living Lonely
The two-part series “Living Lonely” takes on the seldom-examined public health problem of loneliness. The first piece, “Solo in their…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
A Matter of Dignity
Minnesota has always prided itself on providing generous, progressive care to people with disabilities and mental illnesses. Three decades ago,…
- 2015
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
A Game of Chicken
From 2004 through 2014, Oregon and Washington public health officials or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified nearly…
- 2015
First Place
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