Data-Driven Storytelling Award
The NIHCM Foundation Data-Driven Storytelling Award recognizes excellence in data-driven, online reporting that relies on elements such as strong graphics, charts, and/or interactive images to tell a story.
Application Information
The application window for the 10th Annual Data-Driven Storytelling Award is now closed.
10th Annual Data-Driven Storytelling Award Process
(formerly Digital Media Award)
Prize
A $20,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
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Award FAQEligibility
- Entries must originally have been published in 2023.
- Entry is limited to articles featuring digital content produced specifically for an online audience, which may include video, graphics and/or multimedia. If digital content is not central to your story, please view the eligibility criteria for our Investigative and General Reporting.
- Entries should not be largely the same as stories that ran in print publications or that were broadcast on television or radio.
- Entries must examine issues related to health or the health care system.
- Entries that express policy preferences will be considered only if supported with a citation of empirical evidence.
- Entries will be accepted from news sites, independent blogs, newspapers or journals, and blogs associated with universities or other organizations.
Entry
- Deadline: January 31, 2024.
- Entry is free
- Limit two entries per entrant
- An entry can be a series of posts as long as the posts are: linked by topic or produced by the same author or by a collaborative team of authors
- An entry can be a series of posts as long as the posts are linked by topic and the articles can be recognized as a series.
Selection Criteria
- Influential in terms of: 1. sparking policy change, 2. broadly informing the public, and/or 3. stimulating conversation on timely issues
- Effective use of the unique powers and attributes of digital media
- The digital content should be the focus of the story and the central storytelling tool.
- Logical, clear, and insightful analysis
- Uses credible evidence to substantiate ideas
Judges
Julia Belluz
Former Senior Health Correspondent, Vox.com
Aaron Carroll
President & CEO of Academy Health, Regenstrief Foundation Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
Christopher J. Conover
Retired health policy faculty, Duke University; contributor, The Apothecary, Forbes
Michael Millenson
President, Health Quality Advisors LLC; Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; contributor, Forbes & The Health Care Blog, Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter for the Chicago Tribune and blogger
Sabriya Rice
Southern Bureau Chief, KFF Health News
Meredith White
Former Senior Editor, Newsweek; Former Senior Producer and Executive Producer, ABC News; Former Deputy Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle