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)
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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- Investigative (small)
Inside Our Hospitals: What the St. Luke’s antitrust trial documents show
Using evidence that was sealed from public view during a federal trial against St. Luke’s Health System, the Idaho Statesman’s…
- 2015
Second 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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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Risks Are High at Low-Volume Hospitals
A U.S. News analysis of Medicare data for a number of common procedures and conditions revealed that patients treated at…
- 2015
Third 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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- Health Policy (small)
Running on empty
In an unprecedented statewide analysis of hospital capacity, reporters found that facilities across Illinois were emptying out. In 2013, nearly…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
The drug rep will see you now
My investigation, “India’s ‘health camps’: the drug rep will see you now”, reveals for the first time how pharmaceutical companies…
- 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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- Consumer/Feature (small)
The public health dilemma of a fading black community
The Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic was built in the 1960s in the heart of Seattle’s historically African American Central District.…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Alemtuzumab Investigators Protest FDA Decision
This is a reaction piece written following the refusal of the US FDA to approval the multiple sclerosis drug Lemtrada…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Myelin and axons don’t form a perfect, uniform union
“The old story about myelin is that it sheaths our axons pretty completely and facilitates nerve cell communication. An absence…
- 2014
No Award
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