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
Suncoast Health Reporting
“Deep Brain Stimulation Helps a Parkinson’s Sufferer,” 3/10/2014–A Suncoast woman claims she is symptom free thanks to this procedure. “Are…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Obamacare Beat Reporting
Personalizing the Affordable Care Act can be a challenge and that has been my goal in covering the ACA as…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Unchecked Care
1. Facts in senior’s rape case withheld. An investigation into the rape of an 89-year-old resident of a northern Minnesota…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat Reporting Stories
“These stories reflect our work covering how CMS dealt with the thousands of Americans who had data-matching problems (aka “inconsistencies”)…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
Babies Inc.: The big business of little patients
The story discusses the economics of hospital care for very sick children and the effect on their families.
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
New Hepatitis-C drug raises hope at a hefty price
“When new drugs are both effective and expensive In December, the Food and Drug Administration approved two drugs for the…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
“The For-Profit Prescription”
“For-profit companies have targeted several bankrupt or failing New Jersey hospitals for takeover. This three-day series explained how they have…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
Power of Price
The stories explained to readers the lack of transparency that exists for all consumers when they pay for healthcare. Even…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
The $3 billion company that got away
Part I: Recounts the story of a Buffalo neurologist, Dr. Lawrence Jacobs, who doggedly pursued an unorthodox treatment for multiple…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
Is this the end for hospital charity care?
As a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, millions have signed up for health plans through the…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
Precious Pills
Everyone knows drug prices are going up, but it is hard to find specific data showing just how fast some…
- 2014
First Place
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- Business (large)
“Health Secrets for Sale”
“Your health information is considered so private that medical professionals are legally prohibited from sharing it without permission. Yet reporting…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
Fortune: New Blood
Reading Roger Parloff’s story about a revolutionary blood diagnostics company called Theranos is like traveling to an undiscovered country: It’s…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
The changing hospital landscape: Memorial at the Crossroads
This two-day package analyzed the potential effects of a merger between a locally based nonprofit hospital with a much larger…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
Branding Health
In this ‘Special Report’ produced for GlobalPost, The GroundTruth Project investigated the increasing role of private corporations in global health,…
- 2014
No Award
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