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
Growing Community-Based Doctors
A recent Institute of Medicine report recommended that less physician training be done inside hospitals and told why more needs…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
How healthcare’s Washington lobbying machine gets the job done
Healthcare interests spent nearly $500 million last year to influence policy decisions in Washington. This story documented the healthcare lobbying…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Power Morcellation: A Hazardous Practice
The Cancer Letter’s coverage of the controversy over a commonly used gynecological procedure focused on three themes: 1) The devastation…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Road to Reform
For my beat, I filed more than two dozen columns in 2014 that tracked ACA implementation, Health Policy proposals, study…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Health Care
Tim Darragh’s beat involves the business of health care (see hospital security challenge), health-care policies (see tobacco settlement), health issues…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Body of work – Kristian Foden-Vencil
1 – Shortage of Medical Interpreters – July 10th 2014 The Affordable Care Act calls for the use of certified…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
ProPublica: National Quality Forum
These stories were all related to conflicts of interest in the world of patient safety, and the work led to…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Ask Emily
“Emily aggressively covers the Affordable Care Act in California through a consumers lens, delivered in a bi-weekly column. “Ask Emily”…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Huge Geographic Variation In Premium Prices
We identified the most and least expensive insurance regions in the first year of the Affordable Care Act’s new marketplaces.…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Sketchy Insurance Under the ACA – Jay Hancock, beat reporter
For the first 3 stories: On Sept. 16, after many months of work, Jay Hancock reported that insurance consultants had…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Laura Ungar beat reporting
These stories show the breadth and depth of this reporter’s work. The story on Jill Conley’s cancer battle, part of…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Anna Gorman beat reporter: California coverage
First, a description of the beat: Anna covers health policy, disparities, hospitals and elder care throughout California. She has written…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Mike Stobbe
“1. “The end is near – for cigarette smoking? A growing number of experts think so.” AP wire, February 9,…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Sturdevant beat reporting, Hartford Courant
This entry includes 1) a two-part series on Medicare Advantage, 2) a story about reducing excessive ER visits by Medicaid…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
“The Cost of Not Caring”
“The Cost of Not Caring” found that the USA pays a tremendous financial and human cost for ignoring the plight…
- 2014
No Award
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