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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- Business
The Fertility Divide
Massachusetts’ landmark law requiring insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization is widely praised, but significant gaps remain. More than one…
- 2025
Third Place
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- Business
The CRISPR Companies Are Not OK
CRISPR sparked major breakthroughs and investment, but hype created a biotech bubble that has since faltered, leaving some patients without…
- 2025
Second Place
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- Business
Sick in a Hospital Town
A ProPublica investigation of Albany, Georgia, explores how a dominant hospital system, Phoebe Putney Memorial, became the city’s most powerful…
- 2025
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
The Unraveling of the Food and Drug Administration
Reporting by STAT’s Lizzy Lawrence reveals growing instability and political influence inside the FDA, where traditional scientific independence is weakening.…
- 2025
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
Hospital Safety and Quality in Philadelphia
Inquirer reporter Sarah Gantz uses Pennsylvania hospital inspection reports and data tools to investigate patient safety across Philadelphia-area hospitals. Her…
- 2025
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
The Administration’s Assault on Public Health
Apoorva Mandavilli’s 2025 reporting focused on the upheaval at the CDC under RFK Jr., documenting efforts to undermine medical science…
- 2025
First Place
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- Audio Reporting–long Form
Saving lives with fewer dollars
An episode of NPR’s Planet Money examines how cuts to USAID funding triggered a health crisis in Cameroon and the…
- 2025
Third Place
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- Audio Reporting–long Form
The Protocol
Azeen Ghorayshi’s “The Protocol” explores the contentious debate over gender transition treatments for minors by focusing on the underlying medical,…
- 2025
Second Place
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- Audio Reporting–long Form
The Network
“The Network” traces the history and spread of self-managed abortion methods following the loss of clinic access after Roe v.…
- 2025
First Place
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- Audio Reporting–short form
Republicans Call Medicaid Rife With Fraudsters. This Man Sees No Choice but To Break the Rules.
KFF Health News reporter Katheryn Houghton examines proposed Medicaid work requirements by focusing on James, a Montana man whose experience…
- 2025
Second Place
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- Audio Reporting–short form
Chickenless Chicken Shows? Bird Flu Reshapes County Fairs and 4-H Kids Make Do
At the Santa Cruz County Fair, a bird flu outbreak forced officials to ban live chicken shows, disrupting a long-running…
- 2025
First Place
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- 2025
Honorable Mention
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- Investigative (small)
Former employees say psych hospital rife with violence, record falsification and insurance fraud
Former employees of Jacksonville’s Brynn Marr Hospital allege that the facility engaged in patient record falsification and insurance manipulation. Their…
- 2024
Third Place
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- Trade Publications
Chronic Conditions
Nursing homes are beset by pervasive, longstandingquality and safety issues. A little-known federalprogram that targets the worst of the worst…
- 2024
Honorable Mention
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- Trade Publications
Maiken Nedergaard’s power of disruption
On a Wednesday morning in November, the last day of the 2023 Society for Neuroscience meeting, Maiken Nedergaard sat on…
- 2024
Third Place
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