Local Media Award Finalists

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

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Medical Misconduct

Chicago Tribune

Lisa Schencker and Emily Hoerner

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

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Violence and alleged fraud at Brynn Marr Hospital

North Carolina Health News

Taylor Knopf

Part 1 Part 2

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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

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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

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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

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The Gray Zone

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Cleo Krejci

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

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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

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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

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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