Television and Audio Journalism Award
The NIHCM Foundation Television and Audio Journalism Award recognizes excellence in television and audio reporting that can help health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, health care consumers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of US health care.
Application Information
The application cycle for the 19th Annual Television and Audio Journalism Award is now open! Awards will recognize work produced in 2025.
Applications close January 30, 2026 at 5:00 pm ET. Please contact Mikayla Thompson at mthompson@nihcm.org with any questions.
19th Annual Television and Audio Journalism Award Process
(formerly Television and Radio Journalism Award)
Prize
A $20,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
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Award FAQEligibility
- Stories must originally have been broadcast during the calendar year 2025.
- Entry can be either an individual story or a series. Stories must be advertised and disseminated as an official series in order to be submitted as one entry.
- Entries will be accepted from national or local news organizations, nationally-distributed cable programs, online streaming platforms (example: Netflix), podcasts, or from freelance journalists who have produced reports disseminated by same. Online stories will be accepted if produced for and disseminated originally on the web in affiliation with a television or radio news organization, or through an online streaming platform.
- No single submission can be longer than 3 hours. If your entry is longer than 3 hours, please select 3 hours to submit.
- All entries should include a focus on health care affordability, including increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality. Entries should produce new insights that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.
- All entries should focus on health care in the United States.
Entry
- Deadline: January 30, 2026, at 5:00 pm ET
- Entry is free
- Limit three entries per entrant. Please see the FAQs for more information.
- An entry can only be submitted to one category.
- Applicants must submit a URL link to their piece or series.
- Please contact Mikayla Thompson at mthompson@nihcm.org if you are unable to submit or have any questions.
Selection Criteria
- Quality, originality, and creativity of reporting.
- Entry produces new insights or impact that can inform efforts to improve health care affordability, including by increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality.
- Entries should produce new insights that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.
Judges
Bertha Coombs
CNBC
Callie Crossley
GBH
Susan Dentzer
America's Physician Groups
Dan Gorenstein
TradeOffs
AJ Lagoe
KARE 11
Stone Phillips
Julie Rovner
KFF Health News