Investigative and General Reporting Award Finalists


2024 Finalist

Deadly Dose

Tampa Bay Times

Helen Freund, Sam Ogozalek, Langston Taylor, Hannah Critchfield, and Kirby Wilson

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

2024 Finalist

Ozempic, Inc.

The Wall Street Journal

Peter Loftus, Rolfe Winkler, Sara Ashley O'Brien, Erich Schwartzel, Betsy McKay, Sune Engel Rasmussen, Anna Wilde Mathews, and Ray A. Smith

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10

2024 Finalist

The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it

STAT and MuckRock

Rachel Cohrs and Betsy Ladyzhets

Article

2024 Finalist

Operating Profits

The New York Times

Sarah Kliff, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Katie Thomas, Aimee Ortiz, and Robert Gebeloff

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2024 Finalist

Medical neglect in the Duval County jail

The Tributary

Nichole Manna

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

2024 Finalist

Birth control fail: Why American women can’t have better contraceptives in 2023

Fortune

Maria Aspan

Article

2024 Finalist

Denied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans

STAT

Casey Ross and Bob Herman

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2024 Finalist

Merchants of Care

Type Investigations and Quartz

Aurora Almendral and Samanth Subramanian

Part 1 Part 2

2024 Finalist

A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.

The Washington Post

Richard Sima

Article

2024 Finalist

Dying Broke

KFF Health News and The New York Times

Jordan Rau, Reed Abelson, JoNel Aleccia, Holly K. Hacker, and Albert Sun

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8

2023 Finalist

Profit, Pain, and Private Equity

BuzzFeed News

Kendall Taggart, John Templon, Anthony Cormier, and Jason Leopold

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2023 Finalist

Nonprofit Hospitals Are Big Business

The Wall Street Journal

Anna Wilde Mathews, Melanie Evans, Tom McGinty, Paul Overberg, Andrea Fuller, Liz Essley Whyte, Joseph Walker, and Max Rust

Series Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2023 Finalist

Exposing the dangers of technology's march into medicine

STAT

Casey Ross, Adam Yala, Janice Yang, and Ludvig Karstens

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2023 Finalist

When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong

The New York Times

Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia

Article

2023 Finalist

Youth in Transition

Reuters

Robin Respaut, Chad Terhune, Michelle Conlin, and Jennifer Rigby

Series Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2023 Finalist

Stillbirths: When Babies Die Before Taking Their First Breath

ProPublica

Duaa Eldeib

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

2023 Finalist

The CAR-T Crisis: Cancer patients are dying on a wait list

STAT

Angus Chen

Part 1 Part 2

2023 Finalist

Monkeypox Mistakes

The Washington Post

Fenit Nirappil, Dan Diamond, and Lena H. Sun

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

2023 Finalist

Patients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care

KFF Health News

Fred Schulte, Rae Ellen Bichell, Sarah Jane Tribble, Markian Hawryluk, Hannah Norman, Sarah Varney, Emmarie Huetteman, Rachana Pradhan, and Lauren Sausser

Series Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10

2023 Finalist

Dying for Care

USA TODAY

Letitia Stein, Jayme Fraser, Nick Penzenstadler, Jeff Kelly-Lowenstein, Carlie Procell, Ramon Padilla, Chris Amico, Mara Corbett, Hannah Gaber, and Ryan Marx

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9

2022 Finalist

HeartWare: Deadly Malfunctions, FDA Inaction and Vulnerable Patients

ProPublica

Neil Bedi, Maryam Jameel, Maya Miller

8/5/21 12/20/21

2022 Finalist

Vital, important coverage of the most contentious drug approval in decades

STAT

Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, Matthew Herper, Nicholas Florko

6/29/21 7/8/21 7/27/21 11/1/21 12/8/21

2022 Finalist

Sadness and Death: Inside the VA's state nursing-home disaster

Politico

Joanne Kenen, Darius Tahir, Allan James Vestal

8/24/21 11/19/21 12/23/21

2022 Finalist

Boston’s Elite Hospitals: Personal Enrichment and Profits

The Boston Globe

Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Deirdre Fernandes, Rebecca Ostriker, Patricia Wen

4/3/21 8/7/21 10/09/21 12/16/21 12/26/21

2022 Finalist

Disease, inequity and resilience in South L.A.

Los Angeles Times

Joe Mozingo and Francine Orr

2/19/21 6/3/21 7/13/21 11/17/21 12/27/21

2022 Finalist

Inequities in the Vaccine Rollout

Kaiser Health News

Hannah Recht, Lauren Weber, Rachana Pradhan

1/17/21 1/29/21 2/25/21 3/23/21 5/20/21

2022 Finalist

Cutting-Edge Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

STAT

Casey Ross

2/3/21 2/3/21 2/11/21 7/26/21 9/27/21

2022 Finalist

Nursing-Home Ownership Accountability: ongoing coverage on NBC News national

NBC News National

Laura Strickler, Stephanie Gosk, Mark Schone, and Rich Greenberg

11/22/21 12/20/21

2022 Finalist

In Crisis

The Houston Chronicle

Alex Stuckey

Project Page

2022 Finalist

The Hidden Truth: Hospital’s Pricing Power

The Wall Street Journal

Anna Wilde Matthews, Melanie Evans, Tom McGinty, James Benedict

2/11/21 3/22/21 4/14/21 7/6/21 10/3/21 10/28/21 12/15/21 12/22/21 12/30/21

2021 Finalist

Underfunded and Under Threat

Kaiser Health News and The Associated Press

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Jason Dearen, Hannah Recht, Michelle R. Smith, Laura Ungar and Lauren Weber

7/1/20 7/22/20 8/17/20 8/24/20 12/15/20

2021 Finalist

Vital, prescient coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic

STAT

Sharon Begley, Helen Branswell and Matt Herper

4/8/20 4/20/20 4/27/20 5/1/20 6/5/20 7/6/20 8/10/20

2021 Finalist

Inside the coronavirus testing failure: Alarm and dismay among the scientists who sought to help

The Washington Post

Shawn Boburg, Robert O’Harrow, Neena Satija and Amy Goldstein

4/3/20

2021 Finalist

Careless

Indianapolis Star and IndyStar.com

Tony Cook, Emily Hopkins and Tim Evans

3/10/20 3/11/20 3/11/20 3/11/20 3/11/20 8/4/20 8/10/20 10/22/20 12/13/20 12/17/20 12/21/20

2021 Finalist

Hospitals In Crisis

The Wall Street Journal

Melanie Evans, Alexandra Berzon, Russell Gold, Khadeeja Safdar, Shalini Ramachandran, Daniela Hernandez, Laura Kusisto, Katie Honan, Janet Adamy and Joe Palazzolo

4/1/20 4/7/20 4/29/20 6/11/20 7/6/20 9/17/20 9/30/20 10/19/20

2021 Finalist

How global meatpacking companies exposed workers and communities to COVID-19 while government agencies failed to protect them

ProPublica

Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung

Project Page

2021 Finalist

Nursing Homes' Fatal Failures

The Wall Street Journal

Anna Wilde Mathews, Christopher Weaver, Jon Kamp, Elizabeth Koh, Gabe Johnson, Nora Eckert, Jason Douglas, Dan Frosch, Tom McGinty, Dasl Yoon, and Joel Eastwood

3/23/20 3/26/20 4/10/20 5/14/20 6/11/20 8/21/20 10/6/20 12/14/20 12/31/20

2021 Finalist

How the CDC failed America

USA TODAY

Brett Murphy and Letitia Stein

3/27/20 4/7/20 5/9/20 9/16/20 9/18/20 10/6/20 11/11/20

2021 Finalist

A Deadly Divide

ProPublica

Lizzie Presser

5/19/20 12/15/20

2021 Finalist

Shadow Pandemic

The Washington Post

William Wan

5/4/20 7/2/20 9/16/20 11/23/20

2020 Finalist

Tainted Pills, Broken Trust

Bloomberg Businessweek

Anna Edney, Susan Berfield, Margaret Newkirk

9/12/2019 1/29/2019 1/30/2019 12/13/2019

2020 Finalist

UVA Lawsuits

Kaiser Health News, The Washington Post and Richmond Times Dispatch

Jay Hancock, Elizabeth Lucas

9/20/2019 9/20/2019 9/13/2019 10/9/2019 11/4/2019 1/23/2019 12/28/2019

2020 Finalist

Lacking Oversight, Accountability in Mississippi's EMS Network

Mississippi Today and WLBT-TV

Erica Hensley, C.J. LeMaster

7/24/2019 9/11/2019 10/21/2019

2020 Finalist

Inside America's High-Deductible Revolution

Los Angeles Times

Noam Levey

Landing Page

2020 Finalist

Deadly Germs, Lost Cures

The New York Times

Matt Richtel, Andrew Jacobs

Landing Page 4/6/2019 4/7/2019 7/13/2019 8/4/2019 9/11/2019 12/25/2019

2020 Finalist

Mental Health: A Crisis in Colorado

The Gazette

Jakob Rodgers, Debbie Kelley, Stephane Earls, Rachel Riley, Lance Benzel, Bill Radford, Joey Bunch, Burt Hubbard, David O. Williams, Evan Wyloge, Steve Rabey

Landing Page

2020 Finalist

Unprotected: Broken promises in Georgia's senior care industry

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Brad Schrade, Carrie Teegardin

Landing Page Facility Search 9/22/2019 9/29/2019 9/29/2019 9/30/2019 10/1/2019 10/6/2019 11/23/2019 12/28/2019 12/28/2019

2020 Finalist

Marketing Hope

The Washington Post

William Wan, Laurie McGinley

2/27/2019 4/3/2019 4/4/2019 6/7/2019 9/6/2019 12/1/2019 12/13/2019

2020 Finalist

The Parking Lot Suicides

The Washington Post

Emily Wax-Thibodeaux

2/7/2019

2020 Finalist

Betrayed by the Indian Health Service

The Wall Street Journal and PBS News’ Frontline

Christopher Weaver, Dan Frosch, Anna Wilde Mathews, Gabe Johnson, Lisa Schwartz, Jennifer S. Forsyth

2/8/2019

2019 Finalist

The Miracle Cell

San Francisco Chronicle

Erin Allday, Joaquin Palomino

07/12/2018 08/02/2018 08/16/2018 09/06/2018

2019 Finalist

Jailed in Crisis: For many inmates, mental illness is a death sentence

The Virginian-Pilot

Gary A. Harki

Landing Page 08/23/2018 08/30/2018 12/06/2018 12/11/2018 12/13/2018

2019 Finalist

Heart Failure

Houston Chronicle and ProPublica

Mike Hixenbaugh, Charles Ornstein

Landing Page Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2019 Finalist

Implant Files

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Avrotros, NBC News, The Associated Press and more than 50 media partners

Implant Files Reporting & Data Teams

11/25/2018 11/26/2018 11/25/2018 11/25/2018 11/26/2018 11/27/2018 11/25/2018 11/27/2018

2019 Finalist

Failure to Deliver

Sarasota Herald-Tribune and other GateHouse Media publications

Emily Le Coz, Josh Salman, Lucille Sherman

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2019 Finalist

Hidden Health Costs

The Wall Street Journal

Anna Wilde Mathews, Melanie Evans, Joseph Walker, Stephanie Armour, Peter Loftus, Christopher Weaver

07/31/2018 08/21/2018 09/18/2018 10/10/2018 10/21/2018 10/22/2018 12/27/2018 12/27/2018

2019 Finalist

Heartbroken

The Tampa Bay Times

Kathleen McGrory, Neil Bedi

11/28/2018 12/30/2018 12/07/2018 04/20/2018 11/28/2018 12/11/2018 05/15/2018 12/17/2018

2019 Finalist

Alcohol

The New York Times

Roni Caryn Rabin

03/18/2018

2019 Finalist

Side Effects

The Columbus Dispatch

Marty Schladen, Catherine Candisky, Lucas Sullivan, Darrel Rowland, Rachel Kilroy

Landing Page 03/13/2018 03/25/2018 04/15/2018 05/20/2018 06/03/2018 06/17/2018 06/24/2018 08/14/2018 12/23/2018

2019 Finalist

Treatment Overkill

Kaiser Health News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today

Liz Szabo, John Hillkirk

02/28/2018 04/04/2018 08/20/2018 09/13/2018 11/01/2018 12/25/2018

2018 Finalist

Wasted Medicine

ProPublica

Marshall Allen

03/09/2017 04/27/2017 06/20/2017 07/18/2017 10/18/2017 11/28/2017

2018 Finalist

Hospice Neglect

Kaiser Health News, TIME and The Washington Post

Melissa Bailey, JoNel Aleccia, Marilyn Thompson, Susan Weiss, Heidi de Marco, Elizabeth Lucas and Caitlin Hillyard

08/21/2017 10/25/2017

2018 Finalist

DEA

The Washington Post and 60 Minutes, CBS

Lenny Bernstein, Scott Higham, Bill Whitaker, Ira Rosen and Sam Hornblower

04/02/2017 10/13/2017 10/15/2017 10/17/2017 11/14/2017 11/17/2017 12/15/2017 12/17/2017

2018 Finalist

Doomed by Delay

Chicago Tribune

Patricia Callahan

10/08/2017

2018 Finalist

Skin Cancers Rise, Along with Questionable Treatments

The New York Times

Katie Hafner and Griffin Palmer

11/20/2017

2018 Finalist

Lost Mothers

ProPublica and NPR

Nina Martin, Renee Montagne, Adriana Gallardo, Annie Waldman, Katherine Ellison and Kate Womersley

05/12/2017 07/17/2017 08/31/2017 12/07/2017 12/22/2017 12/27/2017

2018 Finalist

Rehab Riviera

Orange County Register/Southern California News Group

Teri Sforza, Tony Saavedra, Lori Basheda, Scott Schwebke, Jordan Graham, Mindy Schauer, Jeff Gritchen, Ian Wheeler, Jeff Goertzen, Kurt Snibbe, Diya Chacko, Daniel Tedford, Todd Harmonson, Rich Connell, Michele Cardon, Frank Pine and Andre Mouchard

Landing Page

2018 Finalist

LOST: Heroin’s Killer Grip on Maine’s People

Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram

Staff at Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram

Landing Page

2018 Finalist

Treating Cancer: Hope Vs. Hype

Kaiser Health News

Liz Szabo

02/09/2017 03/15/2017 04/27/2017 06/12/2017

2017 Finalist

Unnatural Causes: Sick and Dying in Small-town America

The Washington Post

Joel Achenbach, Lenny Bernstein, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Scott Clement, Alice Crites, Scott Higham, Dan Keating, Kimberly Kindy, Bonnie Jo Mount, Amy Ellis Nutt, Steven Rich and Eli Saslow

Landing Page

2017 Finalist

Instrumental Risk,

The Detroit News

Karen Bouffard and Joel Kurth

08/25/2016

2017 Finalist

Painkiller Profiteers

Charleston Gazette-Mail

Eric Eyre

05/23/2016 12/18/2016 12/18/2016

2017 Finalist

Cell Wars

The New York Times

Denise Grady, Andrew Pollack and Matt Richtel

Landing Page

2017 Finalist

Baltimore's Other Divide

Kaiser Health News, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Capital News Service

Jay Hancock, Sarah Varney, Rachel Bluth, Sandy Banisky, Sean Mussenden, Rachel Greenwald, Nate Kresh, Madeleine Deason, Joey Trull, Rose Creasman Welcome, Lauren Burns, Jeremy Snow, Brittany Britto, Iman Smith, Amanda Eisenberg, Micha Green, Jake Bacher, Jordan Branch and Auburn Mann

02/16/2016

2017 Finalist

Reliving Agent Orange

ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot

Charles Ornstein, Mike Hixenbaugh, Terry Parris Jr., Hannah Fresques and Stephen M. Katz

Landing Page

2017 Finalist

Unsafe at any Level

Reuters

Michael Pell and Joshua Schneyer

03/09/2016 06/09/2016 09/28/2016 12/19/2016

2017 Finalist

The Desperate and the Dead

The Boston Globe

Jenna Russell, Michael Rezendes, Maria Cramer, Scott Helman and Todd Wallack

Landing Page

2017 Finalist

Dangerous Doses

The Chicago Tribune

Sam Roe, Karisa King and Ray Long

Landing Page

2017 Finalist

Dying in Private Prisons

The Nation/The Investigative Fund

Seth Wessler

01/28/2016 06/15/2016

2017 Finalist

Hooked: The global causes and human consequences of America's addiction to opioids

The Wall Street Journal

Jon Kamp, Jeanne Whalen, Arian Campo-Flores, Joseph Walker, Valerie Bauerlein, Jennifer Levitz, Scott Calvert and Brian Spegele

05/19/2016 06/23/2016 10/05/2016 11/04/2016 11/22/2016 12/15/2016 12/23/2016 12/29/2016

2016 Finalist

Clash in the Name of Care

The Boston Globe

Jenn Abelson, Jonathan Saltzman and Lizbeth Kowalczyk

10/25/15

2016 Finalist

FDA’s ‘Terrible Policy Error’ on Folic Acid and How Washington State Is Missing Clues to a Deadly Birth Defect

The Seattle Times

JoNel Aleccia and Justin Mayo

7/11/15 12/13/15

2016 Finalist

Testing Theranos

The Wall Street Journal

John Carreyrou and Mike Siconolfi

10/15/15 10/16/15 10/22/15 10/24/15 10/28/15 10/29/15 11/06/15 11/11/15 12/21/15 12/28/15

2016 Finalist

Deadly Dentistry

The Dallas Morning News

Brooks Egerton

12/9/15

2016 Finalist

Risk/Reward

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today

John Fauber, Coulter Jones and Kristina Fiore

Learn More

2016 Finalist

Insult to Injury: America’s Vanishing Worker Protections

ProPublica and NPR

Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes and Lena Groeger

3/4/15 3/4/15 3/5/15 3/5/15 3/25/15 10/14/15 12/11/15 12/29/15

2016 Finalist

Deadly Outbreaks, Dangerous Scopes

Los Angeles Times

Melody Petersen and Chad Terhune

2/19/15 2/20/15 5/14/15 5/29/15 5/30/15 8/2/15 8/3/15 8/4/15 11/14/15 12/20/15

2016 Finalist

Gasping for Action

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Raquel Rutledge

2/15/15 6/21/15 10/21/15 10/21/15 10/21/15 12/30/15

2016 Finalist

Undrinkable

The Texas Tribune

Alexa Ura, Neena Satija and Becca Aaronson

3/8/15 - 3/12/15

2016 Finalist

The Dysfunction in Drug Prices

The Wall Street Journal

Joseph Walker, Jonathan Rockoff, Jeanne Whalen, Peter Loftus and Ed Silverman

4/27/15 10/6/15 10/26/15 10/29/15 12/1/15 12/9/15 12/19/15 12/31/15

2015 Finalist

Fighting to Honor a Father's Last Wish

The New York Times

Nina Bernstein

9/25/14

2015 Finalist

Drug Approvals

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today

John Fauber, Elbert Chu, Coulter Jones

10/26/14 12/21/14 12/22/14

2015 Finalist

Why I Hope to Die at 75

The Atlantic

Ezekiel Emanuel

October 2014

2015 Finalist

Remaking Medicine

The New York Times

Abby Goodnough, Erica Berenstein, Emma Cott

3/2/14 3/30/14 8/28/14 9/16/14 12/29/14

2015 Finalist

Government Action on ACA Loopholes

Kaiser Health News, also published in The Washington Post, NPR, Daily Beast

Jay Hancock

5/7/14 9/12/14 9/26/14 10/16/14 11/4/14 11/25/14

2015 Finalist

Medicare Unmasked

The Wall Street Journal

Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, Christopher Weaver, John Carreyrou, Tom McGinty, Anna Wilde Mathews, Janet Adamy

6/9/14 6/19/14 8/14/14 9/8/14 10/22/14 11/11/14 12/11/14 12/26/14

2015 Finalist

Harsh Treatment

Chicago Tribune

David Jackson, Gary Marx, Duaa Eldeib

Learn More

2015 Finalist

Collateral Damage

The Baltimore Sun

Andrea McDaniels

Learn More

2015 Finalist

Paying Till It Hurts

The New York Times

Elisabeth Rosenthal

Landing Page 1/18/14 3/8/14 4/5/14 7/2/14 7/8/14 9/20/14 9/28/14 12/15/14

2015 Finalist

Medicare Advantage Money Grab

Center for Public Integrity

Fred Schulte, Erin Durkin, David Donald, Chris Zubak-Skees

Landing Page 6/4/14 6/4/14 6/9/14 6/10/14 6/10/14 7/9/14 8/7/14