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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- Investigative (large)
Failed to Death
California is committing more and more people to psychiatric hospitals run by for-profit companies. Behind locked doors, the results are…
- 2025
Honorable Mention
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- Business
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Zolgensma, a gene therapy that can transform the lives of children with spinal muscular atrophy, carries a record $2 million…
- 2025
Honorable Mention
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- Trade Publications
40 years, still no closure
In 1984, the world’s worst industrial disaster unfolded in Bhopal, a city in central India. A cloud of toxic gases…
- 2025
Honorable Mention
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- Trade Publications
A new wave of middlemen offers ‘alternative funding’ for specialty drugs. Patients bear the risks
As someone living with cardiac sarcoidosis, 60-year-old Kevin Danahy can’t afford to have bad health insurance. To control the inflammation…
- 2025
Third Place
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- Trade Publications
What potential drugs are gathering dust on pharma’s shelves?
Biotech, pharma, and nonprofit organization leaders ponder how to move abandoned compounds to patients In the race to get drugs…
- 2025
Second Place
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- Trade Publications
First-ever financial toxicity tumor board aims to change the standard of care
Researchers focus on debt as a side effect of cancer, treatment amid cuts to Medicaid, NCI Nearly half of cancer…
- 2025
First Place
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- Television and Video Reporting – Short Form
KARE 11 Investigates: A Natural Death
KARE 11 Investigates: M Health Fairview said it could not determine how a man died; records show otherwise. A Twin…
- 2025
Honorable Mention
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- Television and Video Reporting – Short Form
IVF Errors: When the ‘medicine of miracles’ goes awry
An NBC News analysis found hundreds of lawsuits over five years alleging that embryos were lost, destroyed or swapped by…
- 2025
Third Place
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- Television and Video Reporting – Short Form
The Hospitals That Won’t Let Patients Go Home
The International Finance Corp., an arm of the World Bank, spends millions of dollars of taxpayer money to build up…
- 2025
Second Place
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- Television and Video Reporting – Short Form
True…or False?
In “True… or False” Erin Moriarty reveals a horrifying reality for new mothers in hospitals across the country who are…
- 2025
First Place
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- Television and Video Reporting – Long Form
Before a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Crisis
“Before a Breath” follows three mothers who have lost children to stillbirth and are striving to make pregnancy safer. Every…
- 2025
Honorable Mention
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- Television and Video Reporting – Long Form
Dead Zone
Millions of Americans live in areas where both doctors and high-speed internet are hard to come by, making access to…
- 2025
Third Place
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- Television and Video Reporting – Long Form
Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media
Can’t Look Away is a gripping documentary that exposes the dark side of social media and its devastating impact on young…
- 2025
Second Place
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- Television and Video Reporting – Long Form
Tragedy in Paradise
Measles cases in Georgia and the U.S. surged to levels in 2025 that haven’t been seen in three decades, fueled…
- 2025
First Place
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- Student Reporting
Advocates fight for immigrant health care amid cuts to coverage, increased enforcement
In 2025, 21 student journalists from 10 universities joined the News21 program and reported from more than 30 cities across…
- 2025
Third Place
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