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
Breaking the taboo: talking fertility and female bits
The first program was entitled ‘Beyond the pill’: It looked at why, despite international studies finding alternative contraceptives up to…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Ebola: Virology, Epidemiology And Broader Health Repercussions
I began covering the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in March 2014. Over the past year, I reported on three…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Environmental health and pollution
The stories describe how exposure to toxic compounds, both (manmade and natural), may be influencing human health around the world.
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Erika Check Hayden’s 2014 Body of Work
Ebola was one of the major global crises of 2014, and Erika Check Hayden pursued the story of this crisis…
- 2014
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Naturopaths fight for Oregon insurance coverage
Oregon’s naturopathic physicians believe the Affordable Care Act’s provider nondiscrimination clause permits insurers to reimburse them as patients’ primary care…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Would quick intervention have saved St. Charles patient?
A 65-year-old St. Charles Bend patient died Dec. 3, two days after staff members there accidentally gave her a paralyzing…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Shaky bridge across safety chasm in healthcare
“Healthcare facilities across the U.S. continue to face major challenges as they cross what has been deemed a “quality chasm”…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat reporting — research, investigation, daily news and feature writing
The health beat in Rochester, Minn. includes research (breaking the news that human stem-cell studies are underway locally against ALS),…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Liz Kowalczyk’s 2014 Body of Work
These four stories are stand-alone, unrelated articles, but they are all culled from the hospital beat. • “Donor’s Death Shatters Family, Stuns…
- 2014
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
Luis Fabregas: Medical Beat
Luis Fabregas covers organ transplantation in a city once known as the transplant capital of the world. The submitted stories…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
“Best bang for buck at hospitals no easy call,” “Worries grow as health deadline nears,” Blue Cross-
“Best bang for buck …” — This story attempts to examine a medical system administrator’s claim that his hospitals offer…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
UNCOVERING SAFETY LAPSES AT THE CDC
Reuters reporters Julie Steenhuysen, Sharon Begley and Hilary Russ were far ahead of our competitors on news of safety lapses…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
EXPOSING HOW THE U.S. WAS UNPREPARED FOR EBOLA
When the first case of Ebola infection was diagnosed on U.S. soil in late September, Reuters had already identified a…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat: Autism
When it comes to a beat such as autism that is the subject of so much media interest, it would…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat: Autism genetics
Much of the media attention on autism focuses on the contribution of environmental causes, such as the debunked yet tenacious…
- 2014
No Award
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