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
Birth control fail: Why American women can’t have better contraceptives in 2023
Fortune
Maria Aspan
Article
2024 Finalist
A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.
The Washington Post
Richard Sima
Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quantity of Care
The Seattle Times
Mike Baker and Justin Mayo
02/10/2017 02/10/2017 02/21/2017 03/12/2017 05/09/2017 05/28/2017 05/28/2017 08/07/2017 08/10/2017 12/14/2017
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
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
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
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
Risk/Reward
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today
John Fauber, Coulter Jones and Kristina Fiore
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2016 Finalist
Undrinkable
The Texas Tribune
Alexa Ura, Neena Satija and Becca Aaronson
3/8/15 - 3/12/15