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
Beat Reporting: Jason Gale, Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News reporter Jason Gale began covering swine flu on April 23, when he linked seven cases in the U.S.…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat Reporting: Angie Marek, SmartMoney Magazine
The first story, “Health Care in a Hurry,” described the growing popularity of retail clinics in the United States, and…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Government Orders Columbia to Tell Patients,’ The Huffington Post
This series exposed an unethical study involving open heart surgery patients conducted 10 years ago at Columbia, a study that…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat Reporting: Marilyn Serafini, National Journal
These four stories dig deep into the underlying policy implications of health care reform proposals in Washington in 2009. They…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat Reporting: Peter Aldhous, New Scientist
Aldhous' body of work is about the cutting edge of biomedical science and its implications for the future of health…
- 2009
No Award
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- Television
The Autism Battle,’ WTTG-Washington, D.C.
Using information compiled by a Freedom of Information Act Request, reporters showed how military families discovered as many as one…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beat Reporting: Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News
Stories include a piece discussing whether a New Jersey hospital should be built when it meets challenges from Health Policy,…
- 2009
No Award
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- Community Newspapers
Dying in Cell 40,’ VTDigger.com
Jailed on a misdemeanor traffic violation, a 23-year-old Vermont woman died because she was denied the prescribed medications she needed…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Compromised Care
Through interviews and often-confidential documents, the Tribune pieced together a series of recent cases in which violent nursing home residents…
- 2009
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
What Happens to a Donated Tumor?
This story follows a tumor from resection to research: when a person decides to donate tissue, how does it get…
- 2009
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
Wellness Provisions Raise Discrimination Concerns,’ Inside Health Policy
Three stories look at the debate about a key Health Policy provision that on its face seemed relatively benign but…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
Patients, Beware,’ Consumer Reports
Side-by-side surveys of hospital nurses and patients (or family members of patient) who were in the hospital recently found that…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Putting a New Face on Depression Treatment,’ Provider
The article looks at a growing number of physicians and mental-health professionals in long-term care who are employing non-pharmacologic, person-centered…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Shedding Light on U.S. Drug Makers,’ Dow Jones News Wire
The first story highlights coming clinical data on three prescription weight-loss therapies in development by separate small pharmaceutical companies. The…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines below 1 million circ.
Medical Muzzle,’ Angie’s List magazine
Medical Justice, a company founded by neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Segal in 2001, sells contracts to doctors that prohibit patients from…
- 2009
No Award
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