2024 Winner
ABC News Studios IMPACT x Nightline: On the Brink
ABC News
Diane Sawyer, Rachel Scott, Eman Varoqua, Tess Scott Davidson, Christina Ng, Candace Smith Chekwa, Karin Weinberg, Acacia Nunes, Laura Coburn, Nadine El-Bawab, Desiree Adib, Erin Murtha, Katerina Rosen, Jhasua Scicchitano, Knez Walker, and Anne Flaherty
Video
Diane Sawyer
Rachel Scott
ABC News Producers
Paula Eiselt
Tonya Lewis Lee
2023 Winner
Aftershock
ABC News Studios, ONYX Collective, and Hulu
Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee
Video
2022 Winner
China's COVID Secrets
PBS Frontline
Jane McMullen, Alex Mattholie, Stephanie Stafford, and Dan Edge
02/02/21
Jane McMullen
Dan Edge
CBS Production Team
Andrew Bast
Photo credit: Gilad Thaler
2021 Winner
Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Front Line
CBS News
Susan Zirinsky, Guy Campanile, Mitch Weitzner, CBS News Bravery and Hope team
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COVID’s Hidden Toll
PBS, FRONTLINE
Daffodil Altan, Andrés Cediel, María José Calderón, Frank Koughan, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson-Rath
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2020 Winner
Predator on the Reservation
PBS News' Frontline and The Wall Street Journal
Gabe Johnson, Christopher Weaver, Dan Frosch, Raney Aronson-Rath, Andrew Metz, Jennifer S. Forsyth and Mike Shum
2/12/19
2019 Winner
The Rockford File
CBS News, 60 Minutes
Lesley Stahl, Richard Bonin, Ayesha Siddiqi, Richard Buddenhagen, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens
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2018 Winner
The Whistleblower and Too Big to Prosecute
60 Minutes, CBS and The Washington Post
Bill Whitaker, Ira Rosen, Sam Hornblower, Robert Zimet, Lenny Bernstein and Scott Higham
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A Drugmaker Tries to Cash In On The Opioid Epidemic, One State Law At A Time and To Grow Market Share, A Drugmaker Pitches Its Product To Judges
NPR & Side Effects Public Media
Jake Harper
6/12/2017 8/3/2017
2017 Winner
Advanced Black Lung Cases Surge in Appalachia
All Things Considered, NPR and Ohio Valley ReSource
Howard Berkes, Robert Little, Nicole Beemsterboer, Benny Becker and Jeff Young
12/15/2016 12/16/2016
2015 Winner
Opioid Wars (Honorable Mention)
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera America
Sebastian Walker, Sam Black, Joel Van Haren, Lindy Jankura, Abdulai Bah, Shannon Stanley and Dana Merwin, Nikhil Swaminathan, Carrie Lozano, Mathieu Skene
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2014 Winner
Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
FRONTLINE, PBS
Rick Young, Anthony Szulc, David E. Hoffman, Emma Schwartz, Fritz Kramer, Lynne Perri, Charles Lewis, Andrew Metz, Raney Aronson, David Fanning
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2016 Winner
Injured Nurses
NPR
Daniel Zwerdling, Robert Little, Nicole Beemsterboer, Barbara Van Woerkom, Robert Benincasa, Samantha Sunne & Lydia Emmanouilidou
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2013 Winner
Cost of Admission
60 Minutes, CBS
eff Fager, Bill Owens, Sam Hornblower, Michael Rey, Oriana Zill de Granados, Robert Zimet, Steve Kroft
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2012 Winner
Autism: Coming of Age
Veritech Corporation, MassMutual, American Public Television
Catherine Sager, John E. Maher, Brian Leonard, Jeremy Cole, Karen Silverstein
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2011 Winner
FRONTLINE: The Vaccine War
FRONTLINE, PBS
Jon Palfreman, Kate McMahon, Mark Rublee, Raoul Rosenberg
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2010 Winner
How A Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription
NPR
Anne Gudenkauf, Gisele Grayson, Alix Spiegel, Jane Greenhalgh
2009 Winner
UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
California Newsreel with Vital Pictures
Larry Adelman, Llewellyn Smith, Christine Herbes-Sommers
2008 Winner
To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports
The Documentary Group/ABC News
Bob Woodruff, Keith Summa & Gabrielle Tenenbaum, Tom Yellin, Kayce Freed Jennings