AHCJ Awards
Large Newspapers (over 250,000 circ.) & wire services
First Place: Saving Bobby; Bryn Nelson, Newsday
Second Place: License to Harm; Michael Berens, Julia Sommerfeld and Carol Ostrom, The Seattle Times
Third Place: After the Fall; Alice Dembner, The Boston Globe
Medium Newspapers (90,000-250,000 circ.)
First Place: The Insidious Fog: A Journey into Alzheimer's; Special Project Team, Ottawa Citizen
Second Place: Nikki: The Girl with No Brain; Nichole Aksamit, Omaha World-Herald
Second Place: Prisoner of His Thoughts; Felice Freyer, The Providence Journal
Small Newspapers (under 90,000 circ.)
First Place: The Killer Cure; Tara Tuckwiller and Scott Finn, The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette
Second Place: Chronic Care, Chronic Costs; Sarah Arnquist, Daily Republic
Third Place: Still Lisa; Lois M. Collins and Elaine Jarvik, Deseret Morning News
General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
First Place: The Truth About Donor 1084; Jennifer Wolff, Self
Second Place: The Brittle Truth About Your Bones; Martha Fay and Stephanie Young, More
Third Place: Fixing America's Hospitals; Newsweek
General Interest Magazines below 1 million circ.
First Place: Playing the Odds; Anthony Effinger, Bloomberg Markets
Second Place: Forever Young; Arlene Weintraub, BusinessWeek
Third Place: Patient Groups: Swallowing the Best Advice; Peter Aldhous and Jessica Marshall, New Scientist
Trade Publications/Online Journals/Newsletters
First Place: Divine Intervention: U.S. AIDS Policy Abroad; International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Center for Public Integrity
Second Place: Do Your Payers Measure Up?; Pamela Moore, Physicians Practice
Third Place: Insulin series; Kirsty Barnes, In-PharmaTechnologist.com
TV (Top 20 markets, network, syndicated)
First Place: Remaking American Medicine; Frank Christopher, Matthew Eisen and Marc Shaffer, PBS
Second Place: Sick and Uninsured; Sanjay Gupta, Shahreen Abedin and Abigail Leonard, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN
Third Place: Battling Alzheimer's; Susan Dentzer, Murrey Jacobson and Elizabeth Callan, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS
TV (Below Top 20 markets)
First Place: Prescription Privacy; Bob Segall, WTHR-Indianapolis
Second Place: Prescription for Waste; Hagit Limor and Anthony Mirones, WCPO-Cincinnati
Third Place: ER: In Critical Condition; Seema Mathur, KEYE-Austin
Third Place: Healing the Heroes - America's War Wounded; Kathryn Barrett and Mike Babcock, WVEC-Norfolk, Va.
Radio
First Place: A Burden to be Well: Sisters and Brothers of the Mentally Ill; Karen Brown, WFCR-FM, Amherst
Second Place: TennCare Cuts; Julie Rovner, Rebecca Davis and Joe R. Neel, NPR
Second Place: Seattle at Forefront in Planning for Flu Pandemic; Richard Knox, Joe R. Neel and Jane Greenhalgh, NPR