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The Fourth Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Television and Radio Journalism Award 

Definition:

Recognizing excellence in television and radio reporting on health care issues and policy 

Award and Prize:

A $10,000 prize will be presented to the winner at a dinner in Washington, DC in May 16, 2011.

Selection Criteria:

  1. New insights generated by the reporting
  2. Impact on health care policy
  3. Quality of writing and production

Eligibility:

  1. Entries must originally have aired during calendar year 2011 
  2. Entries will be accepted from staff employees of national or local news organizations, nationally-distributed cable programs, or from freelance journalists who have produced reports disseminated by same
  3. Online stories will be accepted if produced for and disseminated originally on the web in affiliation with a television or radio news organization.  Material repurposed from other media will not be accepted.

Award process and rules:

  1. Entries must be postmarked by February 15, 2011. 
  2. Entries must include:
  • SEVEN copies of the entry (in CD or DVD format)
    • Television and web entries must be submitted on DVD
    • Radio entries must be submitted on CD
    • Commercials should be ommitted
    • Each DVD or CD must be labeled with the story title, name of entrant and organization, airdate, and length of entry. 
    • One story per DVD or CD
  • TWO copies EACH of:
    • Completed ENTRY FORM 
    • The script
    • A written description of the entry and its impact; length not to exceed 100 words
    • A brief biography and contact information for person(s) to share in award (e.g., producer, director, reporter, etc.)

     3.  A single topic series will be considered as one entry
     4.  Limit of three (3) entries per entrant

The winning entry will be selected by an independent panel of current and former journalists:

  • Walt Bogdanich, Assistant Editor, The New York Times; Former Producer, ABC News and 60 Minutes, CBS
  • Steve Cheng, Former Producer, ABC News
  • Callie Crossley, Television Commentator, WGBH; Radio Commentator, NPR; Former Health and Medicine Producer, 20/20, ABC
  • Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs; former Health Correspondent, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS
  • Alan Murray, Executive Editor, Online, The Wall Street Journal; Panelist, Washington Week in Review, PBS
  • Stone Phillips, Former Anchor, Dateline NBC
  • Julie Rovner, Health Policy Correspondent, NPR

Entries should be submitted by mail/delivery or email to:

Nancy Chockley, President and CEO
NIHCM Foundation
1225 19th Street, NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036

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Contact NIHCM:

Main number: 202-296-4426
Fax: 202-296-4319
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Congratulations to the Winner of NIHCM Foundation's Third Annual   Television and Radio Journalism Award

Winner:

How Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription” NPR, Editor: Anne Gudenkauf, Producer: Gisele Grayson, Reporter: Alix Spiegel, Research Assistant: Jane Greenhalgh

Finalists:

  • “33 Minutes to 34 Right” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), KMGH-TV, V.P./General Manger: Byron Grandy, News Director: Jeff Harris, Investigative Producers: Tom Burke and Arthur Kane,  Investigative Photographer: Jason Foster, Investigative Reporter: Tony Kovaleski

  • 60 Billion Dollar Fraud,” 60 Minutes, CBS News, Executive Producer:  Jeff Fager, Executive Editor: Bill Owens, Correspondent: Steve Kroft,  Story Editor: Claudia Weinstein, Producers: Ira Rosen and Joel Bach,  Editor: Matthew Lev, Camera: Bob Eyres and David Brown, Sound: Joel Eyres and Stan Wilkins, Off-Air Resporters: Chuck Whitlock and Stephen Stock, Associate Producer: Tadd Lascari, Broadcast Associate: Kate Morris

  • Cry for Help,” Thirteen/WNET.org, PBS, Writer/Producer/Director: Mary Murphy, Writer/Producer/Executive Producer: Edie Magnus, Senior Producer: Scott Davis

  • A Dose of Controversy,” Dateline, NBC News, Executive Producer: David Corvo, Executive Editor: Liz Cole, Correspondent: Matt Lauer, Senior Producers: Ellen Mason and Joe Delmonico, Producer: Ami Schmitz, Field Producer: Cristina Sanchez de Boado, Editor: Robert O. Allen, Legal:  Beth Lobel, Standards: David McCormick

  • FRONTLINE:  Sick Around America,” PBS, Producer/Writer/Director: Jonathan Palfreman, Co-producer: Kate McMahon, Director of Photography: Mark Rublee, Editor: Jon Neuburger

  • Heart of the City: Dying to Eat in Jackson,” BET News, Producer: Traci A.  Curry, Senior Series Producer: Jason Samuels, Field Producer: Maria Roach, Associate Producer: Cassandra Lizaire, Editor: Scott Martin

  • "Old Killer Gets New Life: The Resurgence of Tuberculosis," The PBS Newshour, Correspondent: Ray Suarez, Producer/Project Director: Merrill Schwerin, Producer/Reporter: Cat Wise

  • Quality of Death – End of Life Care,” WBUR-FM, Reporter: Rachel Gotbaum,  Producer: George Hicks, Executive Producer: Anna Bensted, Assistant Producer: Ibby Caputo

  • The Wheelchair,” CNN, Investigative Correspondent: Drew Griffin,  Producer: Kathleen Johnston, Executive Producer: Scott Matthews

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