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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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Cincinnati schools are using an app to identify suicidal kids. Not everyone is convinced
Cincinnati schools are using an app to identify suicidal kids. Not everyone is convinced Can AI help mental health crisis?…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Coming to America
Dina Assaf sat in her car outside Chicago’s O’Hare International airport watching the terminal’s sliding doors open and close, open and…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
When Infection Sparks Obsession: PANDAS and PANS
When Angela Tang’s teenage son came down with a baffling illness, few households could have been better equipped to deal with…
- 2024
First Place
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- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
I’m still here’: Before Alzheimer’s, he prided himself on his intellect. Can a new treatment curb his decline?
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- 2024
Third Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
He was shot in the throat. Now he saves gun victims as a trauma surgeon in Baltimore
John Doe’s torso was a nest of bullets, over a dozen lead pellets shot from two feet away. The moment…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
After the Miracle
They call it the Purge. You have experienced, in a modest way, something like it in thewaning days of a…
- 2024
First Place
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- Business
Race to the Bottom
A special series from Tradeoffs examining the problems undermining the generic drugs we all rely on — and how we…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Business
Deloitte-Run Systems Imperil Medicaid Access for Millions
Medicaid for Millions in America Hinges on Deloitte-Run Systems Plagued by Errors Errors in Deloitte-Run Medicaid Systems Can Cost Millions…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Business
“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
Every day, patients across America crack open envelopes with bad news. Yet another health insurer has decided not to pay…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Business
Dealing the Dead
Cut up and leased out, the bodies of the poor suffer a final indignity in Texas Dealing corpses from a…
- 2024
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
Reporting from the front lines of the life sciences revolution
The Afghan father aided U.S. soldiers. Now Texas Medicaid won’t pay for his son’s gene therapy Texas Medicaid agrees to…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
The Battle for Reproductive Health in Louisiana
Louisiana may reclassify drugs used in abortion as controlled dangerous substances Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana,…
- 2024
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Covering Mpox
Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need No Vaccines, Tests or Treatments: Congo Lacks Tools to Confront…
- 2024
First Place
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- Audio Reporting (small division)
How a New Haven street medical team is serving the city’s unhoused
A big white van was parked in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood on a sweltering summer day. Standing next to…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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