The Eighteenth Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Print Journalism Award

Definition:

Recognizing excellence in health care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and the impact of health care policy

Categories:

1. Health Care Article or Series from General Circulation Publications
2. Health Care Article or Series from Trade Publications

Award and Prize:

A $10,000 prize will be presented to the winner in each category at a dinner in Washington, DC on May 21, 2012.

Selection Criteria:

1. New insights generated by the reporting
2. Impact on health care policy
3. Quality of reporting
4. Relevance to one or both of the subject areas (financing and delivery of health care and/or the impact of health care policy)

Eligibility:

1. Articles must originally have been published during the calendar year 2011.
2. Entries will be accepted from all staff reporters and editors, as well as freelance writers for articles that appeared in a General Circulation or Trade Publication.
3. Online articles will be accepted if produced and disseminated originally on the web in affiliation with a General Circulation or Trade Publication.
4. Articles should be timely and produce new insights into health care financing and delivery or health care policy.

To Enter:

• Application Process and Rules
• Online Awards Entry System
• Entries must be submitted by February 15, 2012.

Winners are selected by an independent panel of journalists:

• Ceci Connolly, Managing Director, Health Research Institute, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs
• Clifton Leaf, Executive Editor, SmartMoney Magazine
• Alan Murray, Executive Editor, Online, The Wall Street Journal; Panelist, Washington Week in Review, PBS
• Jeff Nesmith, former Writer, Cox Newspapers
• Fred Schulte, Senior Reporter, Center for Public Integrity

Past Winners and Finalists:

• Announcement of 2011 Award Winners
• Seventeenth Annual Health Care Print Journalism Award Finalists
• All Previous Winners