AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism

Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism

April 24, 2010

Metro papers/national wire and Web sites

Josephine Marcotty, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Kidney Failure"

Honorable Mention

Chicago Tribune staff/ProPublica, "Compromised Care"

Third Place

Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times, "Jani's at the Mercy of Her Mind"

Second Place

Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan, Chicago Tribune, "Dubious Medicine"

First Place

Community papers/regional wire and Web sites

Heidi Hall, The Tennessean, "Needless Deaths" 

Third Place

Michael LaForgia, The Palm Beach Post, "Painkiller Clinics Use Legal Loopholes"

Second Place

Evan George, Los Angeles Daily Journal, "Disabled and Denied"

First Place

Large Magazines

Shannon Brownlee, Reader's Digest, "What's Wrong with Cancer Tests"

Third Place

Sheri Fink, ProPublica/The New York Times Magazine, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial"

Second Place

Katherine Eban, Self, "Bad Bargain"

First Place

Small Magazines

David Evans, Bloomberg Markets, "Big Pharma's Crime Spree"

Third Place

Robert Langreth, Forbes, "Useless Medicine"

Second Place

David Case, Fast Company, "Warning: This Bottle May Contain Toxic Chemicals. Or Not."

First Place

Trade

Susan Brink, Health Affairs, "The Diabetes Prevention Program: How the Participants Did It"

Honorable Mention

Stephen Ornes, CR Magazine, "What Happens to a Donated Tumor?"

Third Place

Jan Greene, Trustee Magazine, "How Can Small Hospitals Survive?"

Second Place

Joe Carlson, Modern Healthcare, "The Cost of Murder"

First Place

Television

Cynthia Lester, MSNBC, "My Mother's Garden"

Third Place

Josh Rushing, Jeremy Young, Hanaan Sarhan, Al Jazeera English, "America's Forgotten Patients"

Second Place

Maria Shriver, Sheila Nevins and John Hoffman, HBO, "The Alzheimer's Project"

First Place

Radio

Kelley Weiss, Capital Public Radio, "Senior Insecurity"

Third Place

Gabriel Spitzer, Cate Cahan, Natalie Moore, WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio, "Twice as Deadly: Chicago's Race Gap in Breast Cancer"

Second Place

Rachel Gotbaum, Anna Bensted, George Hicks, WBUR, "Quality of Death- End of Life Care: Inside Out"

First Place

Multimedia

Bianca Alexander and Michael Alexander, The Soul of Green, "The Color of Health"

Third Place

Kaiser Health News/National Public Radio, "Are You Covered?"

Second Place

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Center for Public Integrity, "Tobacco Underground"

First Place

Beat Reporting

Kelley Weiss, Capital Public Radio

Third Place

Jim Landers, The Dallas Morning News

Second Place

Marshall Allen, Las Vegas Sun

First Place

Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism

April 24, 2010