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2024 Finalist

When Birth Brings Death

The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer

Tyler Dukes, Teddy Rosenbluth, Lisa Vernon-Sparks, Ethan Hyman, Kaitlin McKeown, Sean McInnis, and Cathy Clabby

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

2024 Finalist

The Human Limit

The Washington Post

Niko Kommenda, Annie Gowen, Saiyna Bashir, Shannon Osaka, Erin Patrick O’Connor, Simon Ducroquet, Joshua Partlow, Veronica Penney, Carolyn Van Houten, John Muyskens, Anant Gupta, Atul Loke, Kareem Fahim, Rachel Chason, Kevin Crowe, Jahi Chikwendiu, Ali al-Mujahed, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Oriana Chegwidden, and Jeremy Freeman

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

2024 Finalist

Ever Inflating Health Costs

Bloomberg News

John Tozzi, Jennah Haque, Madeline Campbell, and Tanaz Meghjani

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2024 Finalist

Climate Connections

Grist & The Associated Press

Zoya Teirstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman, Camille Fassett, Blanca Begert, Clayton Aldern, and Caleb Diehl

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

2024 Finalist

America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There's No Tomorrow

The New York Times

Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi, and Eli Murray

Article

2024 Finalist

Pixel Hunt

The Markup

Colin Lecher, Jon Keegan, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, and Darius Tahir

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2024 Finalist

America's Air Pollution Hotspots

The Guardian US

Erin McCormick and Andrew Witherspoon

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2024 Finalist

Alone and Exploited

The New York Times

Hannah Dreier, Eli Murray, and Michael H. Keller

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2024 Finalist

Behind the Gun

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

John Diedrich and Andrew Hahn

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2024 Finalist

Tracking U.S. drug overdose deaths

San Francisco Chronicle

Yoohyun Jung, Christian Leonard, Nami Sumida, Janie Haseman, Vivien Ngo, Dan Kopf, Danielle Rindler, and Demian Bulwa

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2023 Finalist

The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront a Bias

Retro Report and Scientific American

Kelso Harper, Kit R. Roane, Kyra Darnton, Jeffrey DelViscio, and Christopher Buck

Article

2023 Finalist

Hurricane Ian’s preventable deaths

NBC News Digital

Jon Schuppe, Elizabeth Chuck, Melissa Chan, Lewis Kamb, and Nigel Chiwaya

Article

2023 Finalist

Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites

The Markup

Todd Feathers, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Surya Mattu

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2023 Finalist

Diagnosis: Debt

KFF Health News in partnership with NPR and CBS News

Noam N. Levey, Aneri Pattani, Yuki Noguchi, Anna Werner, Bram Sable-Smith, Juweek Adolphe, and Megan Kalata

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

2023 Finalist

Hidden Fentanyl Is Driving a Fatal New Phase in US Opioid Epidemic

Bloomberg News

Emma Court, Linly Lin, Madeline Campbell, Leonardo Nicoletti, Tim Annett, Chloe Whiteaker, David Ingold, Drew Armstrong, Jeremy Diamond, and Paul Murray

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2023 Finalist

The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths

STAT

J. Emory Parker

Article

2023 Finalist

The Critical Role of Web Accessibility in Health Information Access, Understanding, and Use

AHIMAFoundation.org

Amanda Krupa, MSc, Jill B. Roark, MPH, and Kirsten Barrett, PhD

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Video Series

2023 Finalist

Uvalde records reveal chaotic medical response as victims lost blood

The Washington Post, The Texas Tribune, and ProPublica

Zach Despart, Lomi Kriel, Alejandro Serrano, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Arelis R. Hernández, Sarah Cahlan, Imogen Piper, and Uriel J. García

Part 1 Part 2

2023 Finalist

Medicaid shortfalls and government conflicts put foster children in peril

The Better Government Association

David Jackson, Rachel Hinton, Chuck Neubauer, and Grace Golembiewski

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

2023 Finalist

The Amazon, Undone

The Washington Post

Terrence McCoy, Rafael Vilela, Júlia Ledur, Simon Ducroquet, and Alexandre Cruz-Noronha

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2022 Finalist

Below Aging U.S. Dams, a Potential Toxic Calamity

Undark

James Dinneen & Alexander Kennedy

06/01/21

2022 Finalist

The Pandemic Playbook

Vox

Dylan Scott, Julia Belluz, Dylan Matthews, Jen Kirby, German Lopez

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2022 Finalist

Red Shift: COVID-19 Vaccination & Death Rate Levels by County & Partisan Lean

AcaSignups.net

Charles Gaba

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2022 Finalist

What's in a Number? Some Research Shows That a Lower B.M.I. Isn't Always Better.

Retro Report and Scientific American

Kelso Harper, Kit R. Roane, Brian Kamerzel, Kyra Darnton, Chris Buck, Jeffrey DelViscio

Part 1 Part 2

2022 Finalist

Postcards from a World on Fire

The New York Times

Opinion Staff of The New York Times

Part 1 Part 2

2022 Finalist

Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem

The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica

Lulu Ramadan, Ash Ngu, Maya Miller, & Nadia Sussman

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2022 Finalist

Waves of Abandonment

Grist and The Texas Observer

Naveena Sadasivam, Clayton Aldern, & Christopher Collins

Data-Driven Storytelling Award Finalists

When Birth Brings Death

The Human Limit

Ever Inflating Health Costs

Climate Connections

America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There's No Tomorrow

Pixel Hunt

America's Air Pollution Hotspots

Alone and Exploited

Behind the Gun

Tracking U.S. drug overdose deaths

The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront a Bias

Hurricane Ian’s preventable deaths

Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites

Diagnosis: Debt

Hidden Fentanyl Is Driving a Fatal New Phase in US Opioid Epidemic

The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths

The Critical Role of Web Accessibility in Health Information Access, Understanding, and Use

Uvalde records reveal chaotic medical response as victims lost blood

Medicaid shortfalls and government conflicts put foster children in peril

The Amazon, Undone

Below Aging U.S. Dams, a Potential Toxic Calamity

The Pandemic Playbook

Red Shift: COVID-19 Vaccination & Death Rate Levels by County & Partisan Lean

What's in a Number? Some Research Shows That a Lower B.M.I. Isn't Always Better.

Postcards from a World on Fire

Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem

Waves of Abandonment

Dangerous Air

Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution

'Magic dirt': How the internet fueled, and defeated, the pandemic's weirdest MLM

Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

GetUsPPE data project

The Color of the Coronavirus: Covid-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

Dying Inside

An Evidence-Based Tool for Educating the Public about the Risks of COVID-19 and How to Mitigate Them

Lost on the Frontline

Measuring the Real Death Toll of Covid-19

University of Minnesota Covid-19 Tracking Project

A Multi-Payer Analysis of Health Care Spending in North Carolina

She wanted a 'freebirth' with no doctors. Online groups convinced her it would be OK

Heat and Health in American Cities; and Code Red: Baltimore's Climate Divide

Inside West Virginia's Opioid Battle

Blog Series on Social Determinants of Health Data

Turned Away

What if you call 911 and no one comes? Inside the Collapse of America's Emergency Medical Services

Help Me Before It's Too Late

Military Fights a Deadly Enemy: Heat

Hidden Harm

See How the World's Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City's

Death by 1,000 Clicks

Juul and the teen e-cigarette explosion

Destroyed

Simple Surgeries. Tragic Results

Healthy Marketplace Index

Hospitals keep ER fees secret. We’re uncovering them.

The Secret Drug Pricing System

Breathless: Pittsburgh’s asthma epidemic and the fight to stop it

The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5

Nursing home staffing investigations

False Comfort

Intake: Locked on the Psych Ward

The Addiction Trade

Rich hospitals, poor communities

Seven Days of Heroin

The Body Trade

All Work. No Pay.

Vox’s Emergency Room Billing Database

The Orphan Drug Machine

You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition

Death by Fentanyl

The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene

How Americans got stuck with endless drug commercials

SHOW YOUR WORK: Healthcare Coverage Breakout for the Entire U.S. Population in 1 Chart

How Drug Companies Keep Prices Soaring

The Zika Outbreak

STAT: Coverage of the opioid crisis

Mammography’s Unspoken Harms

Frakt-Bagley on Substance Use Disorders

The Vaccine Delayers