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2026 Finalist

The Legacy of Luckey

Toledo Blade

Alexa York

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2026 Finalist

Invisible Killer

The Columbus Dispatch

Max Filby, Danae King, Samantha Hendrickson, and Samantha Madar

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2026 Finalist

HOME SICK: Chronic illness and longing define life in the Tijuana River valley

inewsource

Philip Salata

Part 1 Part 2

2026 Finalist

A Costly Closure

InvestigateWest

Kaylee Tornay and Whitney Bryen

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2026 Finalist

The Cost of Failing

Spotlight PA

Danielle Ohl

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2026 Finalist

Tranq and the latest addiction crisis

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Aubrey Whelan, Max Marin, Dylan Purcell, Zoe Greenberg, and Ryan W. Briggs

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

2026 Finalist

Standard of Fear

The Dallas Morning News

Lauren Caruba, Marin Wolf, Emily Brindley, and Maria Ramos Pacheco

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8

2026 Finalist

Standards of Care

The Boston Globe

Liz Kowalczyk, Elizabeth Koh, and Yoohyun Jung

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2026 Finalist

Hospitals and guardianship

Chicago Tribune

Emily Hoerner, Christy Gutowski, and Lisa Schencker

Part 1 Part 2

2026 Finalist

The Black Box: Inside Mississippi's opioid settlement spending

Mississippi Today

Allen Siegler

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2026 Finalist

Failed to Death

San Francisco Chronicle

Cynthia Dizikes and Joaquin Palomino

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8

2025 Finalist

Baltimore’s Overdose Crisis

The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times

Alissa Zhu, Jessica Gallagher, and Nick Thieme

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2025 Finalist

Medical Misconduct

Chicago Tribune

Lisa Schencker and Emily Hoerner

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2025 Finalist

Violence and alleged fraud at Brynn Marr Hospital

North Carolina Health News

Taylor Knopf

Part 1 Part 2

2025 Finalist

Medical errors, patient deaths, negligent surgeons: A Philadelphia approach to hospital accountability

Philadelphia Inquirer

Wendy Ruderman, Sarah Gantz, and Dylan Purcell

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2025 Finalist

What the cure doesn't fix: How health care fails sickle cell patients in Detroit

Outlier Media

Koby Levin

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2025 Finalist

Why San Diego's Homeless Hospital Patients End Up Back on the Street

Voice of San Diego

Lisa Halverstadt and Peggy Peattie

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2025 Finalist

The Gray Zone

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Cleo Krejci

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2025 Finalist

Diagnosis: Debt Colorado

The Colorado Sun, 9News, KFF Health News, Colorado Newsline, and the Colorado News Collaborative

John Ingold, Chris Vanderveen, Noam Levey, Rae Ellen Bichell, Lindsey Toomer, Sara Wilson, Tina Griego, Matt Volz, and Quentin Young

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8

2025 Finalist

Steward Health Care Investigation

The Boston Globe

Mark Arsenault, Jessica Bartlett, Catherine Carlock, Yoohyun Jung, Elizabeth Koh, Liz Kowalczyk, Hanna Krueger, Brendan McCarthy, Rebecca Ostriker, Chris Serres

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

2025 Finalist

Oil companies leak toxic gas across Texas — making local residents sick

The Examination and The Houston Chronicle

Will Evans, Caroline Ghisolfi, Amanda Drane, and Amelia Winger

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5