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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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Losing Conner’s Mind
First came seizures. Then Conner Beish started losing words. Before long, the four-year-old was struggling to walk. It was as…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Business
Life and Death: The Cost of the EpiPen
In August of 2016, NBC News Business Unit reporter Ben Popken was scouring the internet for story ideas. He stumbled…
- 2016
First Place
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- Business
Illness Inflation
The series was about the process known as medicalization, or how conditions of everyday life are turned into formal medical…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
Investigating OxyContin
A three-part investigation of the nation’s bestselling painkiller, OxyContin, revealed how decisions by manufacturer Purdue Pharma, including the cover-up of…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
Suffering in Secret
The homes — and the problems inside them — were meant to be invisible. While reading a routine state report, reporter Michael…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Investigative (large)
Dangerous Doses
This innovative investigation into dangerous prescription drug interactions yielded groundbreaking science and sparked safety reforms at pharmacies nationwide. In “The…
- 2016
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
At California Psychiatric Hospitals, Epidemic of Patients’ Assaults on Staff Goes Untreated
California’s network of state psychiatric hospitals is charged with treating people with mental illness who pose a danger to themselves…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Investigative (small)
Painkiller Profiteers
The Gazette-Mail tracked the deluge of prescription opioids into West Virginia, following them to individual counties, pharmacies and families. The…
- 2016
First Place
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- Investigative (small)
Instrumental Risk
A six-month Detroit News investigation revealed that five Detroit Medical Center hospitals were plagued with dirty, broken and missing surgical…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Hooked: The Opioid Crisis
As deaths from powerful opioid drugs exploded, a team of Wall Street Journal reporters uncovered how fentanyl and other synthetic…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
The puzzle solver: A researcher changes course to help his son
This is a feature on a researcher’s race to solve the biochemical puzzle of chronic fatigue syndrome — the disease afflicting…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
On the Cusp of a Cure
The Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania is perched on the front lines in a turning point on the war on cancer,…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
The End of AIDS?
As scientists and researchers were about to gather in South Africa for the International AIDS Conference last summer, the PBS…
- 2016
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
Shoot to Kill
With no dependable, uniform data on gun violence, it’s impossible to get even a simple tally of the number of…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Public Health (small)
For All They Know
Months after the spotlight of the national media had moved on from Flint, Mich., Undark writer Steve Friess moved in.…
- 2016
Second Place
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