Past Contest Entries

Saving lives with fewer dollars

An episode of NPR’s Planet Money examines how cuts to USAID funding triggered a health crisis in Cameroon and the efforts to address it. Based on months of reporting, the story follows organizations like GiveWell as they navigated urgent decisions about where to direct limited resources, offering rare insight into their internal deliberations while allocating funds to projects such as a $2 million initiative by ALIMA.

Place:

Third Place

Year:

  • 2025

Category:

  • Audio Reporting–long Form

Affiliation:

NPR’s Planet Money podcast

Reporter:

Mary Childs, Marianne McCune, and Sam Yellowhorse Kesler