Television and Audio Journalism Award
The NIHCM Foundation Television and Audio Journalism Award recognizes excellence in television and audio reporting on health care issues and policy.
Application Information
The application window for the 31st Annual Television and Audio Award will open in early 2025. Please contact Mikayla Thompson at mthompson[at]nihcm.org with any questions.
18th 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
- Entries must originally have aired during the calendar year 2024
- 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 staff employees of national or local news organizations, nationally-distributed cable programs, online streaming platforms, or freelance journalists who have produced reports disseminated by the 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
Entry
- Deadline: February 26, 2025
- Entry is free
- Limit three entries per entrant
- Applicants must submit a URL link to their piece or series.
- Please contact Mikayla Thompson at mthompson[at]nihcm.org if you are unable to submit or have any questions.
Selection Criteria
- New insights and fresh perspectives generated by the reporting
- Influential journalism that sparks health policy change and/or builds public awareness
- Quality of storytelling
Judges
Callie Crossley
Television Commentator, GBH; Radio Commentator, NPR; former Health and Medicine Producer, 20/20, ABC News
Susan Dentzer
President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Physician Groups, former Health Correspondent, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS
Stone Phillips
StonePhillipsReports.com; formerly Dateline NBC Anchor
Julie Rovner
Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Chief Washington Correspondent, KFF Health News