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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- Metro Newspapers
The Rise of Thyroid Cancer,’ The Workshop
Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing type of cancer in the nation, and medical researchers don't know why. The upswing…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Healthy Questions,’ The Kansas City Star
Healthy Questions examined various facets of the debate over health care reform. The articles, all on A1 and nearly all…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
The Cost of Care,’ The Dallas Morning News
"The Cost of Care" examines what's behind high health care costs in Dallas – and why that doesn't necessarily translate…
- 2009
No Award
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- Community Newspapers
Charity Care: How Much is Enough?’ Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin's nonprofit hospitals, which account for nearly all hospitals in the state, provided 40 percent less charity care and made…
- 2009
No Award
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- Radio
Prescription Drug Abuse Swells in New Hampshire,’ New Hampshire Public Radio
From 1995 to 2007, drug overdose deaths in New Hampshire jumped more than 400%; that year, overdose deaths surpassed deaths…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Five Died on his Watch,’ The Virginian-Pilot
Stories center on Dr. Stephen Plotnick, a doctor who specialized in chronic pain management, mainly for the condition of fibromyalgia.…
- 2009
No Award
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- Community Newspapers
Detaining Care: A Three-Part Series on Medical and Mental Health Care in Texas,’ The Texas Tribune
A review of years of inspection reports at Texas immigration detention centers – obtained after a long open records battle…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Protecting Newborns from Parents Who Abuse Drugs or Alcohol,’ ABA Child Law Practice
At the outset, the story identifies two broad public views toward parental substance abuse: that it is either a public…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Mary Agnes Carey, Beat reporting, Kaiser Health News
A four-part beat focusing on the Capitol Hill Health Policy. The first story in the series reported on the impact…
- 2009
No Award
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- Television
America’s Forgotten Patients,’ Al-Jazeera English
This report explored the system in which we treat mental illness in America. Where state hospitals used to supply treatment…
- 2009
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Peter Loftus beat reporting, Medpage Today
The beat illustrates reporter Peter Loftus’s timely and insightful coverage of the drug maker Merck & Co. as it undertook…
- 2009
No Award
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- Community Newspapers
Needless Deaths
Tennessean education editor Heidi Hall spent five weeks examining why Tennessee ranks 22nd for cancer diagnoses – about the middle of…
- 2009
Third Place
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- Metro Newspapers
U.S. News,’ The Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama’s newly anointed regulators at the Food and Drug Administration pledged early in 2009 to overhaul the embattled…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
The New Cancer Fighters,’ Woman’s Day
This article went beyond the typical "wear sunscreen to prevent cancer" advice and dug deeper to find out the best…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Kidney Transplantation: Failure to Inform,’ Pittsburg Tribune-Review
Doctors at dialysis clinics have failed to inform thousands of patients about kidney transplantation, an oversight that could shorten their…
- 2009
No Award
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