Trade Journalism Award
The NIHCM Foundation Health Care Trade Journalism Awards recognize excellence in health care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and the impact of health care policy.
Application Information
The application window for the 28th Annual Health Care Trade Journalism Award has now closed. Finalists will be announced in March 2022. Winners will be announced in the early spring.
28th Annual Trade Journalism Award Process
Prize
A $15,000 prize will be presented to the Trade Journalism Award winner.
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Award FAQEligibility
- Articles must originally have been published during the calendar year 2021.
- Entries will be accepted from publications written for a specialty audience.
- Articles should be timely and produce new insights into health care financing and delivery or health care policy.
Entry
- Deadline: January 31, 2022
- Entry is free
- An individual may be listed as the primary contributor on no more than three (3) entries but may be listed as a co-contributor on additional entries
- An entry can be either a series or an individual piece of work
Selection Criteria
- New insights generated by the reporting
- Impact on health care policy
- Quality of reporting
- Relevance to one or both of the subject areas (financing and delivery of health care and/or the impact of health care policy)
Judges
Eliza Barclay
Climate Editor, Opinion, The New York Times, formerly Vox
John Carreyrou
Former Investigative Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Ceci Connolly
President and CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans, formerly The Washington Post
John Fauber
Former Medical Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today Network
Clifton Leaf
Adjunct Professor of Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, former Editor in Chief, Fortune
Fred Schulte
Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
William Wan
Enterprise Reporter, The Washington Post