AHCJ Awards
Large Newspapers (over 250,000 circ.) & wire services
First Place: Fixing Mr. Fix-It; Diane Suchetka, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer
Second Place: In Their Debt; James Drew and Fred Schulte, The (Baltimore) Sun
Second Place: The Evidence Gap; Staff, The New York Times
Third Place: At the Edge of Life; Lee Hancock and Sonya N. Hebert, The Dallas Morning News
Third Place: The Partners Effect; Spotlight Team, The Boston Globe
Medium Newspapers (90,000-250,000 circ.)
First Place: Transplanting Too Soon; Luis Fabregas and Andrew Conte, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Second Place: Dangerous and Mentally Ill; Carol Smith, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Third Place: The New Addiction; Marshall Allen and Alex Richards, Las Vegas Sun
Small Newspapers (under 90,000 circ.)
First Place: What Lies Beneath; Greg Barnes, John Ramsey and John Fuquay, The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer
Second Place: Systemwide Flaws Plagued Heparin Recall; Evan George, Los Angeles Daily Journal
Third Place: Alone Among Us; Sharon Salyer and Alejandro Dominguez, The (Everett, Wash.) Herald
General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
First Place: Growing Up Bipolar; Mary Carmichael, Newsweek
Second Place: The Medical Marijuana Murder; Frank Owen, Playboy
Third Place: Rx for Disaster; Annemarie Conte, Jessica Branch and Jennifer L. Cook, Good Housekeeping
Third Place: Women's Silent Cancers/Harmful Hysterectomies; Emily Chau, Leslie Laurence and Julia Kagan, Ladies Home Journal
General Interest Magazines below 1 million circ.
First Place: Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?; John Carey, BusinessWeek
Second Place: Your Hospital's Deadly Secret; Katherine Eban and Jacob Lewis (editor), Conde Nast Portfolio
Third Place: The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know; David Wolman, Wired
Beat Reporting
First Place: 2008 Body of Work; Clark Kauffman, Des Moines Register
Second Place: 2008 Body of Work; Carol Smith, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Third Place: 2008 Body of Work; Angie Marek, SmartMoney
Limited Report
First Place: Hospital Mistakes Go Public; Jordan Rau, Los Angeles Times
Second Place: Providers Close Doors to Poor; Marshall Allen, Las Vegas Sun
Third Place: Tainted Imports Set Off Warnings, Not FDA Action; Justin Blum, Bloomberg News
Trade Publications/Newsletters
First Place: Conflicts of Interest in Lung Cancer Study; Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter
Second Place: The Billion Dollar U-Turn; Mark Taylor, Hospitals & Health Networks
Third Place: Your Future Chief of Staff?; Howard Larkin, Hospitals & Health Networks
TV (Local markets, network, syndicated)
First Place: Healthline Presents: Polio Revisited; David Wasser, Alissa Collins Latenser and Don Kaiser, Retirement Living TV
Second Place: Healthcare USA; Hanaan Sarhan, Mat Skene and Avi Lewis, Al Jazeera English Television
Third Place: Talking About the End; Betty Ann Bowser, Bridget Desimone and Jenny Marder, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Radio (Local markets, network, syndicated)
First Place: Prescription Drugs at the Swap Meet; Kelley Weiss, Joe Barr and Paul Conley, Capital Public Radio
Second Place: Chemicals at Home: Searching for Safe Alternatives; Sarah Varney, KQED
Third Place: Delivering AIDS Drugs – The Long Journey; David Baron, WGBH/PRI’s The World
Online
First Place: Perils of the New Pesticides; M.B. Pell, Jim Morris and Jillian Olsen, The Center for Public Integrity
Second Place: 'Well' blog; Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times
Second Place: Health Blog; Scott Hensley, Jacob Goldstein and Sarah Rubenstein, The Wall Street Journal
Third Place: Suicide Magnet; Randy Dotinga, Voice of San Diego