Investigative and General Reporting Award
The NIHCM Foundation Investigative and General Reporting Journalism Award recognizes excellence in reporting that can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
Application Information
The 31st Annual Investigative and General Reporting Award application window is now open! Applications will close on March 28, 2025.
31st Annual Investigative and General Reporting Award Process
(formerly General Circulation Award)
Prize
A $20,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
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Award FAQEligibility
- Articles must originally have been published during the calendar year 2024.
- Entries will be accepted from newspapers, magazines, websites, and nonprofit news organizations. If data-driven content is central to your story, please view the eligibility criteria for our Data-Driven Storytelling category.
- 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 of reporting.
- 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
Andrew Dreyfus
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Matthew Herper
STAT News
Robert Langreth
Bloomberg News
Clifton Leaf
Columbia Journalism School
Antonio Regalado
MIT Technology Review
Fred Schulte
KFF Health News