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
The Lost Girls
Autism is frequently seen as a disorder that affects only boys or men. We know much less about how autism…
- 2015
First Place
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- Business
Medicare Advantage Overcharges
Medicare Advantage is a fast growing alternative to traditional Medicare coverage run mostly by private insurance companies. These health plans…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Drug Problems: Dangerous Decision-Making at the FDA
The public depends on the FDA to ensure that medicines are safe and effective, but through many months and almost…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Living on: Improving the odds of organ transplants
This nine-part series examined key policy issues in three aspects of organ transplantation: organ allocation, deceased donation and living donation.…
- 2015
First Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Maternal health: Ebola’s lasting legacy
As of March 2015, Ebola had infected more than 23,900 people, killing more than 40% of them. As fears escalated…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Public Health (small)
The missing generation
The story describes the ‘missing generation’ of people with autism: adults who grew up long before autism became part of…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Investigative (small)
Inside Our Hospitals: What the St. Luke’s antitrust trial documents show
Using evidence that was sealed from public view during a federal trial against St. Luke’s Health System, the Idaho Statesman’s…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Hidden Errors
In this investigation, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Ellen Gabler found that laboratories across the nation are not following basic policies…
- 2015
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Risks Are High at Low-Volume Hospitals
A U.S. News analysis of Medicare data for a number of common procedures and conditions revealed that patients treated at…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
Injured Nurses
When you or a loved one checks into a hospital, maybe you get great care. But Injured Nurses reveals that…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Running on empty
In an unprecedented statewide analysis of hospital capacity, reporters found that facilities across Illinois were emptying out. In 2013, nearly…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
The drug rep will see you now
My investigation, “India’s ‘health camps’: the drug rep will see you now”, reveals for the first time how pharmaceutical companies…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Living Lonely
The two-part series “Living Lonely” takes on the seldom-examined public health problem of loneliness. The first piece, “Solo in their…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
A Matter of Dignity
Minnesota has always prided itself on providing generous, progressive care to people with disabilities and mental illnesses. Three decades ago,…
- 2015
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
A Game of Chicken
From 2004 through 2014, Oregon and Washington public health officials or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified nearly…
- 2015
First Place
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