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
Susan Donaldson James’s 2013 Body of Work
The mental health of children and families has come into sharp focus since the Newtown shootings in 2012. An array…
- 2013
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
State Didn’t Have to Halt Medicaid Payments to Providers
Contrary to state officials’ claims, New Mexico didn’t have to abruptly suspend all Medicaid payments to 15 behavioral health providers…
- 2013
No Award
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- Investigative (large)
Synthetic Drugs a Hit in Florida
This was a three-part investigative package, with all three running on the same day, where we explored Florida’s crackdown on…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
HPV
KTVU discovered a hidden epidemic of potentially fatal neck and throat cancer caused by a sexually transmitted virus.
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Are Too Many Kids Taking Antipsychotic Drugs?
The use of antipsychotics in kids has skyrocketed in the last decade or so, with a disproportionate number of prescriptions…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
3-D Printed Implants Hit The Market, Pave The Way For More Personalized Devices
Medical device companies have recently started to sell implantable devices constructed via 3-D printing manufacturing to increase product customization and…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Exchange Glitches Predicted Months Before Rollout
For months, the officials in charge of building Minnesota’s health insurance exchange, MNsure, waved aside questions from lawmakers, policy analysts…
- 2013
No Award
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- Investigative (large)
Toxic Clout
Toxic Clout is a year-long investigation exposing how chemical industry influence and regulatory malaise create uncertainty and delay, imperiling public…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Technology and American Health Care
The three stories detail the unintended consequences of efforts by companies, government and health providers to use technology to improve…
- 2013
No Award
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- Health Policy (large)
Health Overhaul
The series followed the implementation of the Affordable Care Act through the year, and proved prescient of many of the…
- 2013
No Award
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- Health Policy (large)
Sex, Lies and HIV
Sex, Lies and HIV: When What You Don’t Tell Your Partner Is a Crime What sets Hernandez’s story apart is…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Yael Waknine’s 2013 Body of Work
My goal is to educate clinicians and the public on developments in oncology to ensure effective patient-physician dialogue in this…
- 2013
No Award
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- Investigative (small)
Children Are Dying
This special report broke the story of a public health crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people: a nationwide shortage…
- 2013
Second Place
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- Public Health (large)
It Really Does Take a Village: How Memphis is Fixing Healthcare
The story examines how one Memphis hospital system is using church-based community health workers to improve outcomes in one of…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Young Adults With Autism Find Work In Tech
The job hunt is complicated enough for most high school and college graduates. But for the growing number of young…
- 2013
No Award
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