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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- Television
Tough Choices,’ PBS NewsHour
As health insurance premiums and deductibles rise, even patients with health insurance are finding it difficult to keep up with…
- 2009
No Award
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- 2TV (Below Top 20 markets)
Will HotLine Trials Change Practice?’ MedPage Today
Every major medical meeting has stories that set the place buzzing. At the 2009 European Society of Cardiology meeting the…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Winning the arms race: A centuries old quest to build a better arm,’ MassDevice
The story started as a feature about advances in the prosthetic limb industry in Massachusetts, told using a young man…
- 2009
No Award
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- Radio
Marketing Medications,’ WHYY-FM
Following a record-breaking settlement against drugmaker Eli Lilly and its marketing practices, this series of reports explores the complex relationship…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Fighting for Fairness,’ Denver Post
Outrage over how women are treated in the individual health insurance market has grown as the nation debates health care…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
The Forty Years’ War,’ The New York Times
The death rate for cancer has barely changed since 1950, despite Richard M. Nixon's pledge to cure cancer in five…
- 2009
No Award
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- 2TV (Below Top 20 markets)
Tobacco Underground
Tobacco Underground is a series about the global trade in smuggled cigarettes, produced by a team from the International Consortium…
- 2009
First Place
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
The Last Decision,’ The New York Times Magazine
A new approach to organ donation doesn't require waiting until the donor's brain death. Instead, it poses a difficult question:…
- 2009
No Award
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- Radio
Oral Health Challenges,’ WDUQ
People with disabilities have a harder time seeing a dentist than any other demographic. WDUQ look at why that is…
- 2009
No Award
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- 2TV (Below Top 20 markets)
North Carolina Voices,’ Global Health Connections
Global Health Connections received a grant to travel to southern Africa to do stories on ‘how North Carolinians are affecting…
- 2009
No Award
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- Television
Over Use in the Health Care System,’ CBS News
The CBS pieces examine the overuse of costly and potentially harmful medical procedures. ANGIOPLASTY and SCREENING take aim at two…
- 2009
No Award
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
Need a Fix,’ Fitness
In the feature "Need a Fix?" (January 2009), health journalist Roxanne Patel Shepelavy investigated the trend of painkiller abuse in…
- 2009
No Award
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- 2TV (Below Top 20 markets)
Profiles: How Could Health Care Reform Affect You,’ PBS News
This feature provided a look at how real people, in various health insurance situations, might be affected by health care…
- 2009
No Award
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- Radio
Quality of Death – End of Life Care: Inside Out
In the public radio documentary "Quality of Death-End of Life Care: Inside Out," reporter Rachel Gotbaum explores a health care…
- 2009
First Place
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- Metro Newspapers
Haiti Before the Earthquake,’ WebMD
The 10 pieces in the story — three of which are submitted here — reflect the very real health crisis…
- 2009
No Award
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