Michael Grabell
Bernice Yeung
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2021 Winner
How Global Meatpacking Companies Exposed Workers and Communities to COVID-19 While Government Agencies Failed to Protect Them
ProPublica
Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung
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2019 Winner
Side Effects
The Columbus Dispatch
Marty Schladen, Catherine Candisky, Lucas Sullivan, Darrel Rowland and 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 8/14/2018 12/23/2018
2018 Winner
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
2017 Winner
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
2015 Winner
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 12/15/14Honorable Mention
Mississippi Burned
Politico Magazine
Sarah Varney, Margaret Slattery, Diane Webber
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2014 Winner
Deadly Delays
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ellen Gabler, Mark Johnson, John Fauber, Allan James Vestal, Kristyna Wentz-Graff
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Other than Honorable
Colorado Springs Gazette
Dave Philipps and Michael Ciaglo
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2013 Winner
Cracking the Codes
The Center for Public Integrity
Fred Schulte, Joe Eaton, David Donald, Gordon Witkin
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TB: A Menace Returns
The Wall Street Journal
Geeta Anand, Betsy McKay, Gautam Naik
1/19/12 6/20/12 9/8/12 11/23/12 11/23/12 11/26/12 12/19/12 12/26/12 12/31/12
2012 Winner
Methadone and the Politics of Pain
The Seattle Times
Michael J. Berens, Ken Armstrong
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2011 Winner
Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Sun
Marshall Allen, Alex Richards, Las Vegas Sun staff
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2010 Winner
The Cost Conundrum
The New Yorker
Atul Gawande
2009 Winner
Nonprofit Hospitals
The Wall Street Journal
John Carreyrou, Barbara Martinez and Geeta Anand
2008 Winner
VA Mental Health Crisis
McClatchy Newspapers
Chris Adams
2007 Winner
Through Hell and High Water
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jane Hansen
2006 Winner
The Most Expensive Drugs
The Wall Street Journal
Geeta Anand
Honorable Mention
Chronic Condition: The Waste in Medicare Spending
The Washington Post
Gilbert Gaul
2005 Winner
Why We're Losing the War on Cancer (And How to Win It)
Fortune
Clifton Leaf
Honorable Mention
If I Die
The Baltimore Sun
Diana K. Sugg
2004 Winner
Who Gets Health Care?
The Wall Street Journal
Geeta Anand, Elena Cherney, Peter Landers, Laura Landro, Laurie McGinley, Antonio Regalado and Bernard Wysocki, Jr.
Honorable Mention
The Menace of Aortic Aneurysms
The Wall Street Journal
Thomas M. Burton and Kevin Helliker
Honorable Mention
The Cost of Courage
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Steve Twedt
2003 Winner
Unhealthy Hospitals
Chicago Tribune
Michael J. Berens and Bruce Japsen
Honorable Mention
Ethan's Story
Asheville Citizen-Times
Leslie Boyd
2002 Winner
Dying in Darkness
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ken Foskett and Ann Hardie
Honorable Mention
Will Your ER Be There for You?
The Plain Dealer
Diane Solov and Regina McEnery
Honorable Mention
It's a Crime
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Steve Twedt
2001 Winner
State of Pain
The River Front Times
Melinda Roth
Honorable Mention
What's Killing Us?
The Jackson Sun
W. Matt Meyer, Tonya Smith-King and Wendy Wilson
Honorable Mention
Unhealthy Cuts
Associated Press
Malia Rulon
2000 Winner
Patients at Risk
The Boston Globe
Larry Tye
1999 Winner
Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill
The Boston Globe
Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong
Honorable Mention
The Tarnished Years: How The Nursing Home System Fails Our Seniors
The Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News
Bonnie Harris, Joe Fahy and Steve Healy
1998 Winner
Unnecessary Danger
The Dayton Daily News
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith
1997 Winner
For Profit Medicine Arrives in Massachusetts
The Boston Globe
Boston Globe Spotlight Team
1996 Winner
Heart Trouble at KU Med
Kansas City Star
Cheryl W. Thompson
1995 Winner
Profits from Pain
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Fred Schulte and Jenni Bergal