Local Media Award
The NIHCM Foundation Local Media Award recognizes excellence in local written reporting that can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
Application Information
The 1st Annual Local Media Award application window is now open! Applications will close on March 28, 2025.
1st Annual Local Media Award Process
Prize
A $15,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
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Award FAQEligibility
- Entries must originally have been published during the calendar year 2024.
- All entries must be produced by a local media outlet and exclusively focused on a local market. Entries from national media outlets will not be accepted in this category.
- Entries will be accepted from newspapers, magazines, websites, and nonprofit news organizations.
- 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 the work 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
- Quality reporting on a local market.
- 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
Tony Leys
KFF Health News
Susan Livio
The Star-Ledger and NJ.com
Anna Wilde Mathews
The Wall Street Journal
Mark Miller
Arnold Ventures
Caitlin Owens
Axios
Christopher Weaver
The Wall Street Journal