Television and Audio Journalism Award
The NIHCM Foundation Television and Audio Journalism Award recognizes excellence in television and audio reporting that can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
Application Information
The 18th Annual Television and Audio Journalism Award application window is now open! Applications will close on March 28, 2025.
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 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 national or local news organizations, nationally-distributed cable programs, online streaming platforms 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. If data-driven content is central to your story, please view the eligibility criteria for our Data-Driven Storytelling category.
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 must address some aspect of health care management, financing, delivery and organization, affordability, and/or rising health care costs; with an eye toward how this research can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
Entries should focus on health care in the United States.
Entry
- Deadline: March 28, 2025
- Entry is free
- Limit three entries per entrant
- 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 of storytelling.
- 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
Bertha Coombs
CNBC
Callie Crossley
GBH
Susan Dentzer
America's Physician Groups
Dan Gorenstein
TradeOffs
A.J. Lagoe
KARE 11
Stone Phillips
Julie Rovner
KFF Health News