Television and Audio Journalism Award Finalists


2024 Finalist

The Fault in Our Patents: John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson

An Arm and a Leg and KFF Health News

Dan Weissmann and Emily Pisacreta

Part 1 Part 2

2024 Finalist

Fentanyl: The Silent Toll

Scripps News

Lori Jane Gliha, Brittany Freeman, Zach Cusson, Colin McIntyre, Lauren Knapp, Kyle Short, Thierry Humeau, and Max McClellan

Video

2024 Finalist

Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?

Tradeoffs Podcast, in collaboration with STAT

Tradeoffs: Leslie Walker, Dan Gorenstein, Andrew Parrella, Cate Cahan, and Cedric Wilson; STAT: Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

Podcast

2024 Finalist

PLAN C

Dinky Pictures

Tracy Tragos

Video

2024 Finalist

The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America

The Nocturnists

Ali Block, MD, Emily Silverman, MD, Molly Rose-Williams, Sam Osborn, Jessica Yung, Jon Oliver, Anjali Walia, Dahlia Kaki, Fiona Miller, Mulki Mehari, Treya Tompkins, Carly Besser, Rebecca Groves, and Nicole Xu

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2024 Finalist

ABC News Studios IMPACT x Nightline: On the Brink

ABC News

Diane Sawyer, Rachel Scott, Eman Varoqua, Tess Scott, Christina Ng, Candace Smith Chekwa, Karin Weinberg, Acacia Nunes, Laura Coburn, Nadine El-Bawab, Desiree Adib, Erin Murtha, Katerina Rosen, and Jhasua Scicchitano

Video

2024 Finalist

Patient Dumping Probe

WAVE TV

John Boel, Jeff Knight, and Doug Druschke

Video

2023 Finalist

VICE News Tonight Investigates: Post-Roe America

VICE News

Maral Usefi, Nikki Egan, Stacey Sommer, Samantha Wender, Gianna Toboni, Hendrik Hinzel, Madeleine May, Arlissa Norman, Victoria Lesiw, Alejandro Soto, Jeb Banegas, Daniel Vergara, Dan Cain, Alex Rosen, Zach Wood, Mack Woodruff, Zach Caldwell, Jason Blalock, Sam Stonefield, and Michael Lopez

Video

2023 Finalist

VICE News Tonight Investigates: Beyond Fentanyl

VICE News

Manisha Krishnan, Gilad Thaler, Patrick Mannion, Arlissa Norman, Madeleine May, Samuel Stonefield, Dan Cain, Stacey Sommer, Nikki Egan, Maral Usefi, Natasha Grzincic, Jeff Ricker, Zach Wood, Trey Strange, and Neda Toloui-Semnani

Video

2023 Finalist

Aftershock

ABC News Studios, ONYX Collective, Hulu

Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee

Video

2023 Finalist

Still Practicing: Tracking Problem Doctors

KXAN

Matt Grant, Dalton Huey, Chris Nelson, and Josh Hinkle

Video Series

2023 Finalist

RISING UP IN THE HEARTLAND: Latino workers fight for pandemic relief

Univision and HHMI

Federica Narancio, Victoria Bouloubasis, Anna Clare Spelman, Adriana Loeff, Richard Stone, Félix Pérez, Angelito Post, Frank Barragán, Diego Medrano, Santiago Fernández, and Richard Redfern

Video & Article

2023 Finalist

Broken Promises

KARE-TV

A.J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert, Gary Knox, and Ron Stover

Video

2022 Finalist

Sedated

FOX31 Denver

Lori Jane Gliha and Noah Skinner

2/18/21

2022 Finalist

Under Pressure: Inside the College Mental Health Crisis

APM Reports, American Public Media

Alisa Roth and Sasha Aslanian

8/19/21

2022 Finalist

The GAP: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect

NBC KARE 11

A.J. Lagoe, Brandon Stahl, Steve Eckert, Ron Stover, and Gary Knox

12/24/21

2022 Finalist

CURED

PBS, Independent Lens

Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon

10/11/21

2022 Finalist

Children That Pay

NBC News

Hannah Rappleye, Kate Snow, Eric Salzman, Tyler Kingkade, Wally Griffith, Meghan Lisson, Candice Goldman, and Allison Stedman

4/4/21

2022 Finalist

China's COVID Secrets

PBS, Frontline

Jane McMullen, Alex Mattholie, Stephanie Stafford, and Dan Edge

2/2/21

2022 Finalist

What Went Wrong at uBiome?

The Wall Street Journal

Amy Dockser Marcus, Anna Wilde Mathews, and Rikki Novetsky

Part 1 Part 2

2022 Finalist

COVID Patients Fighting for Their Lives Are Still Refusing the Vaccine

VICE News

Dan Ming, Gilad Thaler, Zachary Rockwood, Patrick Mannion, Samantha M. Wender, Maral Usefi and Stacey Sommer

8/12/21

2021 Finalist

The Great Divide: COVID-19 and Race in Chicago

Al Jazeera English, Fault Lines

Laila Al-Arian, Kavitha Chekuru, Natasha Del Toro, Erik Ljung and Adrienne Haspel

11/12/2020

2021 Finalist

COVID's Hidden Toll

PBS, FRONTLINE

Daffodil Altan, Andrés Cediel, María José Calderón, Frank Koughan, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson-Rath

7/21/2020

2021 Finalist

Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Front Line

CBS News

Guy Campanile, Mitch Weitzner, Susan Zirinsky, Andrew Bast, T. Sean Herbert, Gilad Thaler, Danielle Levy, Josh Gaynor, Sasha Reuther, Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson, Pat Milton, Michael McHugh, Michael Vele, Seth Fox, Diana DeCilio, Holden Frandino, Marcelena Spencer and Josh Gelman

5/15/2020

2021 Finalist

Defending the Unthinkable

KQED Public Radio and Mother Jones Magazine

April Dembosky and Sasha Khokha

2/02/2020 2/19/2020

2021 Finalist

Insight with John Ferrugia- Breakdown

Rocky Mountain PBS

John Ferrugia, Laura Frank, Phil Maravilla, Coby Howell, Brittany Freeman, Jason Foster, Josh Burleson and Brian Malone

1/20/2021

2021 Finalist

60 Minutes: COVID’s Long Haulers

CBS News, 60 Minutes

Anderson Cooper, Nichole Marks, David M. Levine, and Peter M. Berman

11/21/2020

2021 Finalist

Coronavirus Pandemic

PBS, FRONTLINE

Miles O'Brien, Caleb Hellerman, Kate McMahon, Fedor Kossakovski, Megan Robertson, Will Toubman, Frank Koughan, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson-Rath

4/21/2020

2021 Finalist

Coronavirus, Explained

Netflix

Sara Masetti, Sam Ellis, Marie Cascione, Rubab Shakir, Adam Cole, Caresse Haaser, Jan Kobal, David Seekamp, Tanya Lukyanova, Marina Stadler, Joe Posner and Claire Gordon

4/26/2020 6/16/2020 6/16/2020

2021 Finalist

America's pandemic: After Decades of Warning, a Failed Response

The Washington Post

Whitney Shefte, Jorge Ribas and Brian Monro

10/27/2020

2021 Finalist

Navajo Nation

PBS NewsHour

Stephanie Sy, Richard Coolidge, Lena Jackson, Casey Kuhn and Sara Just

4/24/2020 5/25/2020 11/25/2020

2020 Finalist

Beyond Hoarding

The Tikson Project, LLC

David C. Coffin, Alice Irene Pifer

5/28/2019

2020 Finalist

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

HBO

Alex Gibney

3/18/2019

2020 Finalist

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, Mike Shum

2/12/2019

2020 Finalist

Right to Fail

2over10 Media for PBS News’ Frontline and ProPublica

Tom Jennings, Joaquin Sapien

2/26/2019

2020 Finalist

With Abortion Restrictions On The Rise, Some Women Induce Their Own

NPR

Sarah McCammon, Ammad Omar (editor), Luis Clemens (editor)

9/19/2019

2020 Finalist

Marijuana Vaping Investigation

The Today Show and NBC Nightly News

Cynthia McFadden, Rich Schapiro, Conor Ferguson

9/27/2019

2019 Finalist

The Bleeding Edge

Netflix

Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, Amy Herdy

7/27/2018

2019 Finalist

Imminent Danger

Rocky Mountain PBS

John Ferrugia, Laura Frank, Jason Foster, Phil Maravilla, Kelly Flink, Josh Burleson, Coby Howell, Brian Malone

Video 4/26/2018 5/3/2018 8/7/2018

2019 Finalist

Follow This: ‘Life Support’

Buzzfeed News

Jessica Harrop, Shani Hilton, Cindy Vanegas-Gesuale, Linzee Troubh, Cat Hartwell, Azeen Ghorayshi, Joshua Weinstein, David Herr, Adam Loyd

8/23/2018

2019 Finalist

Andrew Lehren, Emily Siegel, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Adiel Kaplan, Anna Schecter, Brenda Breslauer, Catie Beck, Cynthia McFadden, Courtney McGee, Kevin Monahan, Lauren Dunn, Maggie Fox, Mark Schone, Mary Beth Toole, Richard Greenberg, Robert Dembo, Stephanie Gosk, Susan Wagner, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kalen Goodluck, Rich Gardella

NBC News Investigations

The Implant Files

Medical Device Dangers AP Landing Page ICIJ Landing Page 11/24/2018 11/25/2018 11/25/2018 11/26/2018 11/26/2018 11/27/2018 11/27/2018 11/28/2018 12/5/2018 12/19/2018 12/19/2018

2019 Finalist

Healthcare Fraud in America

CBS News

Emily Rand, Kristin Steve, Jim Axelrod, Jeff Glor, Mosheh Oinounou, Ryan Kadro, Peter Burgess, Diana Miller, Len Tepper

3/26/2018 Loophole for rural hospitals Some rural hospitals exploited for profit 5/16/2018 7/19/2018

2019 Finalist

The Rockford File

CBS News, 60 Minutes

Lesley Stahl, Richard Bonin, Ayesha Siddiqi, Richard Buddenhagen, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens

5/6/2018

2018 Finalist

Heroin’s Children

Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English

Laila Al-Arian, Josh Rushing, Adrienne Haspel, Victor Suarez, Mat Skene and Joel Van Haren

10/25/2017

2018 Finalist

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 and Side Effects Public Media

Jake Harper

6/12/2017 8/3/2017

2018 Finalist

Misconceptions: When pregnancy dreams become IVF nightmares

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

Jonathan Richard Jones, Bernice Yeung, Emily Harris, Cheryl Devall and Andrew Donohue

6/1/2017 6/1/2017 6/1/2017 6/3/2017

2018 Finalist

What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?

BBC News and ProPublica

Olivia Lace-Evans, Nadia Sussman, Sarah Smith, Lucas Waldron, Joseph Sexton, Claudia Milne and Ben Bevington

12/28/2017

2018 Finalist

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

10/15/2017

2017 Finalist

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

2017 Finalist

Chasing Heroin

FRONTLINE, PBS

Marcela Gaviria, Will Cohen, Martin Smith, Brian Funck, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson

2/23/2016

2017 Finalist

Finding the Fix: Heroin’s Hold on the Heartland

WFIU Public Radio & WTIU Public Television

Sara Wittmeyer, Wes Akers, Steve Burns, Becca Costello, Tori Lentz, Kasey Long, Sophia Saliby, James Vavrek and Lindsey Wright

9/29/2016

2017 Finalist

State of Mind: Access to Mental Health Care in California

The California Report Magazine and KQED Public Radio

April Dembosky

8/19/2016

2017 Finalist

The End of AIDS?

PBS NewsHour, PBS, in collaboration with Science magazine and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

William Brangham, Jason Kane, Jon Cohen, Shannon Bradley, Richard Coolidge, Murrey Jacobson, Patti Parson, Sara Just, Devin Pinckard, Jason Lelchuk, John Morgan and Dawn Andres

Landing Page 7/11/2016 7/12/2016 7/13/2016

2017 Finalist

Under the Microscope: The Zika Crisis

KXAS-NBC 5 DFW

Bianca Castro, Janeen Duckett, Scott Friedman, Kevin Cokely, Scott Gordon, Jose Sanchez, Linda Angelle, Peter Hull and Guy Mitchell

12/24/2016

2016 Finalist

The Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of Our Nation

California Newsreel with Vital Pictures

Larry Adelman, Christine Herbes-Sommers

10/11/2015

2016 Finalist

Candy Land: The Tomah VA

Revealnews.org

Aaron Glantz

3/14/15

2016 Finalist

Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution

CNN

Sanjay Gupta

4/19/15

2016 Finalist

Compounding Fraud

CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning

Emily Rand, Len Tepper, Jim Axelrod, Ryan Kadro, Chris Licht, Kim Godwin and Steve Capus

2/23/15 2/24/15 5/5/15 5/6/15 5/7/15 6/11/15

2016 Finalist

Injured Nurses

NPR

Daniel Zwerdling, Robert Little, Nicole Beemsterboer, Barbara Van Woerkom, Robert Benincasa, Samantha Sunne & Lydia Emmanouilidou

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2015 Finalist

Access Restricted

Fault Lines, Al Jazeera America

Laila Al-Arian, Anjali Kamat

4/26/14

2015 Finalist

The Cost of Cancer Drugs

60 Minutes, CBS News

Richard Bonin, Cassi Feldman, Richard Budderhagen, Lesley Stahl

10/5/14

2015 Finalist

Science Squeeze: Hard Times in Medical Research

NPR

Richard Harris, Robert Benincasa

Landing Page 9/9/14 9/9/14 9/10/14 9/15/14 9/16/14 9/16/14 9/17/14

2014 Finalist

Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports

CNN

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, Mike Chedwick, Meg Pearlstein, Saundra Young, Ben Tinker, Max Newfield and Kristen Kiraly

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2014 Finalist

The Waiting Room

Independent Lens, PBS

Pete Nicks, Lawrence Lerew, William B. Hirsch, Linda Davis

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2014 Finalist

OUT OF BREATH: The Untold Story of Big Money, Black Lung and Doctors for the Coal Companies

Nightline and World News with Diane Sawyer, ABC

Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk, Chris Hamby

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2014 Finalist

The Human Microbiome: Guts and Glory

NPR

Rob Stein

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2014 Finalist

Rehab Racket

Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN

Scott Zamost, Drew Griffin, Christina Jewett, Will Evans

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2013 Finalist

It’s a Southern Thing

Dan Rather Reports, AXS TV

Adam Bolt, Andrew Blackwell, Dan Rather, Wayne Nelson, Elliot Kirschner, Steve Tyler

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2013 Finalist

American Man

ESPN Classic

Jon Frankel

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2013 Finalist

Big Hits, Broken Dreams

CNN Presents, CNN

Sanjay Gupta

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2013 Finalist

Deception at Duke

60 Minutes, CBS

Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Michael Radutzky, Kyra Darnton, Sam Hornblower, Matt Richman, Scott Pelley

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2013 Finalist

Dollars and Dentists

FRONTLINE, PBS

Jill Rosenbaum, David Heath, Katie Taber, Carl Byker, Miles O’Brien, Gale Sargent, Raney Aronson Rath, David Fanning, Ellen Weiss, Philip Bennett, Mark Rublee

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2012 Finalist

Addicted to Antibiotics

Dan Rather Reports, HDNet

Sari Aviv, Laura Minnear, Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, Wayne Nelson

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2012 Finalist

Outsourced: Clinical Trials Overseas

Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English

Zeina Awad, Mathieu Skene, Jeremy Young, Thierry Humeau, Warwick Meade, Supriya Sobti, Goran Maric

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2012 Finalist

Mini-Meds

Dan Rather Reports, HDNet

Kim Balin, Laura Minnear, Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, Wayne Nelson

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2012 Finalist

Are the Kids All Right? A Look at Children's Mental Health in Massachusetts

WBUR-FM

Deborah Becker, Monica Brady-Myerov, Martha C. Little

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2012 Finalist

How to Die in Oregon

HBO

Peter Richardson, Sheila Nevins, Melody Korenbrot, Jacqueline Glover, Greg Snider

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2011 Finalist

Rationing Health: Who Lives? Who Decides?

PRI's The World

David Baron, Sheri Fink, Patrick Cox

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2011 Finalist

Google Baby

HBO2

Zippi Brand Frank

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2011 Finalist

Deadly Medicine

KIRO Radio, CBS Seattle

Heather Bosch

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2011 Finalist

The Mysterious Case of Kevin Xu

Dan Rather Reports, HDNet

Kelly Buzby, Dan Madden, Dan Rather, Wayne Nelson, Elliot Kirschner

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2011 Finalist

Where There's Smoke

Dan Rather Reports, HDNet

Janet Klein, Michael Culyba, Dan Rather, Wayne Nelson, Elliot Kirschner

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2011 Finalist

Going Blind

WGVU-TV

Joseph Lovett

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2011 Finalist

AIDS Funding: The Price of Success

PBS NewsHour, PBS

Merrill Schwerin, Ray Suarez, Denis Levkovich, Catherine Wise, Talea Miller

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2011 Finalist

China Faces Growing Health Crisis from Prevalent Tobacco Use

PBS NewsHour, PBS

Merrill Schwerin, Ray Suarez, Denis Levkovich, Catherine Wise, Gil Barkey, Talea Miller

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