Data-Driven Storytelling Award
The NIHCM Foundation Data-Driven Storytelling Award recognizes excellence in data-driven, online reporting that can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
Application Information
The application window for the 11th Annual Data-Driven Storytelling Award is now closed. Finalists will be announced in mid-May, and winners will be announced in mid-June. Please contact Mikayla Thompson at mthompson@nihcm.org with any questions.
11th 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 2024.
- Entry is limited to articles featuring data visualizations. It may include short video, graphics and/or multimedia presentations. If data-driven content is not central to your story, please see the eligibility criteria for our Investigative and General Reporting category.
- Entries will be accepted from newspapers, magazines, websites, and publications associated with universities and research organizations. For full audio/visual stories, see the Television and Audio category.
- All entries must address some aspect of health care management, financing, delivery and organization, affordability, and/or rising health care costs; with an eye toward how this research can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
- All entries should focus on health care in the United States.
Entry
- Deadline: March 28, 2025
- Entry is free
- Limit three entries per entrant
- An article or series can only be submitted to one category.
- Please contact Mikayla Thompson at mthompson@nihcm.org if you are unable to submit or have any questions.
Selection Criteria
- Effective use of data visualization as the central storytelling tool.
- Quality, clear, and insightful analysis of credible data.
- Entry produces impact or insights that may improve health care management, are relevant to the private sector, generate new evidence on health care affordability and how rising health care prices affect quality and access, and/or inform health care policy along these dimensions.
- The best and most impactful entries can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
Judges
Juweek Adolphe
Gourmet Data
Christopher Conover
Duke University (Retired)
Brad Fluegel
University of Pennsylvania
Jayme Fraser
USA Today
Yoohyun Jung
The Boston Globe
Derek Willis
University of Maryland