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
ACA beat reporting entry, Haberkorn
These four stories demonstrated the wide range of success, failure and unexpected results in the states as they implemented Obamacare…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Nurith Aizenman’s 2014 Body of Work
• An Ebola Quarantine Triggers a Riot in a Liberian Slum: This breaking news report was an example of covering…
- 2014
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
Beat coverage of Medicaid in Tennessee
While Tennessee is one of several Southern states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act,…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Remaking Medicine
The idea behind the series was to look at the early effects of the Affordable Care Act, particularly the expansion…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Health in the far north
Health stories from the Arctic/circumpolar region. Some concern Native traditional diets and the benefits and drawbacks — for the Native…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
April Dembosky’s 2014 Body of Work
“The health beat at KQED is wide ranging. I am the only health reporter at the station and am tasked…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Risk/Benefit Analysis: A Deep Dive Into FDA Drug Regulations
I use my wide breadth of knowledge to keep my audience in the pharmaceutical industry informed of the latest developments…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Denial of Care: Backlog at the VA
Over a six month period, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Brad Schrade exposed deep flaws across the VA’s national health enrollment system…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
New Jersey health policy beat
“Affordable Care Act Outreach Remains Spotty in Some Parts of NJ” examined geographic gaps in the coverage of federally funded…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Brenda Goodman – Body of Work
Statins Early in my career as a health reporter, nearly every expert I interviewed about cholesterol-lowering statins would repeat some…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Abby Haglage’s 2014 Body of Work on Ebola
Abby Haglage is nominated for her reporting on the Ebola pandemic, from the disease’s discovery in the 1970s to the…
- 2014
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- Beat Reporting
A deeper look into the ACA and Medicaid
So much of the focus when it’s come to the Affordable Care Act has been about how many have enrolled,…
- 2014
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- Beat Reporting
Terhune-beat-reporting
As a healthcare beat reporter, 2014 posed the unique challenge of covering the biggest expansion of insurance coverage in nearly…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Public Health Threats: The West Explosion and Ebola
All stories were written by Sue Ambrose, Staff Writer, The Dallas Morning News. 1. West Explosion, One Year Later: Official…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
THE AIR WE BREATH
All stories were written by Randy Lee Loftis, Environmental Writer, The Dallas Morning News. 1. Dallas-Fort Worth could be an…
- 2014
No Award
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