{"id":287094,"date":"2017-10-11T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/?page_id=287094"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:33:49","slug":"stat-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Awards for STAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1225653 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3800\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards.jpg 3800w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards-328x155.jpg 328w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards-500x237.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards-2048x970.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards-1600x758.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/awards-640x303.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3800px) 100vw, 3800px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width: 900px; margin: 0 auto; display: block; padding: 20px 24px 50px 24px;\">\n<h1>Our Journalism Awards<\/h1>\n<section class=\"the-content\">\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2026<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">George Polk Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/liu.edu\/polk-awards\/current-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Reporting award<\/a> went to Lizzy Lawrence for chronicling the degradation of the FDA as Americans\u2019 health care protector and to the STAT staff for the 10-part series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/american-science-shattered\/\">\u201cAmerican Science, Shattered,\u201d<\/a> and other reporting, using data, human stories, and historical context to document the impact of the federal government\u2019s disruption of scientific research.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing \u201cBest in Business\u201d Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/2026\/03\/2025-best-in-business-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won three awards in the small division<\/a>: general excellence for \u201csharp, original, and tough business coverage\u201d; best newsletter for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/health-care-inc\/\">Bob Herman\u2019s Health Care Inc.<\/a>; and health\/science for Jason Mast\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/02\/06\/crispr-gene-editing-medical-breakthrough-not-matched-by-financial-success\/\">story on how the CRISPR boom went bust<\/a>, which also received an honorable mention in the feature category.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/staff\/isabella-cueto\/\">Isabella Cueto<\/a> won the American Society of Magazine Editors award, which <a href=\"https:\/\/asme.memberclicks.net\/asme-announces-2026-design-and-photo-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recognizes outstanding achievement by early-career journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">NIHCM Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross and Tara Bannow were named investigative and general reporting finalists for their story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/16\/investigating-humana-internal-research-medicare-advantage-benefits\/\">Humana\u2019s Medicare Advantage research machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2025<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">ASME National Magazine Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT <a href=\"https:\/\/asme.memberclicks.net\/american-society-of-magazine-editors-announces-national-magazine-awards-2025-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won for general excellence<\/a> in the special interest category. The series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus<\/a> was a finalist in the public interest category.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">George Polk Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT reporters Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liu.edu\/polk-awards\/past-winners#2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Care Reporting award<\/a> for their series \u201cHealth Care\u2019s Colossus,\u201d which investigated how UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Read the series here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Gerald Loeb Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Lev Facher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/2025-loeb-award-finalists-career-honorees-and-awards-event-at-rainbow-room-in-new-york-city-announced-by-ucla-anderson-302541365.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won in the explanatory category<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/war-on-recovery\/\">\u201cThe War on Recovery\u201d<\/a> series. STAT was a finalist for commentary for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/staff\/adam-feuerstein\/\">Adam Feuerstein<\/a>: Truth-Teller on the Biotech Industry\u201d and beat reporting for the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus<\/a>\u201d series by Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Scripps Howard Journalism Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus series<\/a> won for <a href=\"https:\/\/scripps.com\/fund\/news\/scripps-howard-fund-announces-winners-of-72nd-scripps-howard-journalism-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excellence in national\/international investigative reporting<\/a> and received the Impact Award, given to the entry \u201cdeemed to have had the greatest impact from among the list of winners.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Edward R. Murrow Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT won four national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtdna.org\/2025-national-edward-r-murrow-award-winners#SmallDigital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murrow Awards<\/a> in the small digital division. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/coercive-care-sickle-cell-disease\/\">Coercive Care<\/a>\u201d series, by Eric Boodman, was recognized for both excellence in writing and feature reporting; the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/embedded-bias\/\">Embedded Bias<\/a>\u201d series, by Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer, won for excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion; and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus<\/a>\u201d series, by Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence, won for investigative reporting.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus series<\/a> won <a href=\"https:\/\/businessjournalism.org\/2025\/09\/2025awards\/#elementor-toc__heading-anchor-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silver in the global\/national category<\/a>. \u201cThe reporters convinced dozens of employees to take them behind the scenes into a scheme that cost taxpayers billions. This impactful series caught a company paying itself higher prices, found executives intentionally padding results, and exposed a bait-and-switch of massive scale,\u201d said the judges.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing \u201cBest in Business\u201d Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/2025\/03\/2024-best-in-business-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won for general excellence<\/a> in the small division for its tough-minded and authoritative journalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/staff\/matthew-herper\/\">Matthew Herper<\/a> won best range of work in the small division for his coverage of health and medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus series<\/a> won for investigative in the small division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT also received four honorable mentions in the small division: Lev Facher\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/war-on-recovery\/\">War on Recovery series<\/a> in the health\/science category; Katie Palmer in the explanatory category for work showing how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/10\/17\/telehealth-online-compounded-glp1-prescriptions-medical-groups\/\">invisible medical groups are powering telehealth\u2019s GLP-1 \u201cgold rush\u201d<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/staff\/adam-feuerstein\/\">Adam Feuerstein<\/a> in the commentary\/opinion category for \u201ctruth-teller on the biotech industry\u201d; and Jason Mast in the feature category for his story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/12\/09\/pirovolakis-gene-therapy-rare-disease-spg50-lockard\/\">\u201cThis father built a gene therapy for his son. Now comes the harder part: saving others\u2019 children, too.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">National Headliner Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus series<\/a> won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headlinerawards.org\/2025-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first place<\/a> for online investigation reporting for digital website on a national issue.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Jason Mast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasw.org\/article\/announcing-2025-nasw-science-society-journalism-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won in the science features category<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/12\/09\/pirovolakis-gene-therapy-rare-disease-spg50-lockard\/\">\u201cThis father built a gene therapy for his son. Now comes the harder part: saving others\u2019 children, too.\u201d<\/a> Eric Boodman won in the series category for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/coercive-care-sickle-cell-disease\/\">\u201cCoercive Care.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Lev Facher <a href=\"https:\/\/healthjournalism.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/ahcj-announces-winners-of-2024-health-journalism-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won first place<\/a> in the health policy category, large division, for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/war-on-recovery\/\">War on Recovery<\/a>, the series about how the U.S. has denied lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Megan Molteni <a href=\"https:\/\/healthjournalism.org\/contest-entry\/reporting-from-the-front-lines-of-the-life-sciences-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won third place<\/a> in beat reporting for five feature stories from from the frontlines of the life sciences revolution.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">NIHCM Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer were named finalists for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nihcm.org\/news\/finalists-selected-the-2025-nihcm-awards-in-journalism-and-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigative and general reporting award<\/a> for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/embedded-bias\/\">Embedded Bias<\/a>,\u201d a series examining the pervasive use of race-based clinical algorithms in medicine. Bob Herman, Casey Ross, Tara Bannow, and Lizzy Lawrence were named finalists for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/unitedhealth-group-investigation-health-care-colossus-series\/\">Health Care\u2019s Colossus<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Livingston Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Eric Boodman and Lev Facher were <a href=\"https:\/\/wallacehouse.umich.edu\/announcing-the-2025-livingston-awards-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named as finalists<\/a> in the national reporting category.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Online Journalism Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer were <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.journalists.org\/winners\/2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named as finalists<\/a> in Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity\u00a0for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/embedded-bias\/\">Embedded Bias.<\/a>\u201d Anna Yeo was named as a finalist in Digital Video Storytelling for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/behind-the-counter-video-series-high-drug-prices\/\">\u201cBehind the Counter\u201d<\/a> video series.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Editor &amp; Publisher EPPY Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eppyawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STAT won first place<\/a> for best business\/finance website; best use of data transparency for our \u201crevelatory effort to monitor CDC data in real time\u201d; best business\/finance column for \u201cAdam Feuerstein: Truth-teller on the Biotech Industry\u201d; and best revenue-generating community event. STAT won third place for best online-only news website; best overall website design; and best redesign\/relaunch.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Silurians Press Club Excellence In Journalism Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT contributor Katherine Eban won an award in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silurians.org\/2025-silurians-excellence-in-journalism-awards#Awards-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health and science category<\/a> for her\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/05\/01\/brain-biopsies-mount-sinai-fda-review\/\" rel=\"\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/05\/01\/brain-biopsies-mount-sinai-fda-review\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">investigation into brain biopsies<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cvulnerable\u201d patients at Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">New York Financial Writers\u2019 Association Impact Award<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/media-news\/stat-wins-nyfwa-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the 2025 Impact Award<\/a> for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/denied-by-ai-unitedhealth-investigative-series\/\">\u201cDenied by AI\u201d series<\/a> written by Casey Ross and Bob Herman.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2024<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT reporters Casey Ross and Bob Herman were named 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalists in Investigative Reporting for highlighting the dangers of AI use in medicine. Through their reporting, Casey and Bob exposed how UnitedHealth Group, the nation\u2019s largest health insurer, used an unregulated algorithm to override clinicians\u2019 judgement and deny care for patients. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence\/\">Read the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Gerald Loeb Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross and Bob Herman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-wins-loeb-award\/#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Loeb%20Awards,for%20Sick%20and%20Vulnerable%20Americans.%E2%80%9D\">won in the Investigative Reporting category<\/a>, for their series \u201cDenied by AI.\u201d \u201cThe Obesity Revolution,\u201d a series on the rise of a new class of weight loss drugs, was a finalist in the Explanatory category.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Online Journalism Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross and Bob Herman won two awards, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.journalists.org\/entries\/denied-by-ai-consequences-for-sick-and-vulnerable-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Excellence in Technology Reporting<\/a> category and the <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.journalists.org\/entries\/denied-by-ai-consequences-for-sick-and-vulnerable-americans-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award<\/a>, for their series \u201cDenied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Anna Yeo and Megan Molteni won the award for Short Form Digital Media Storytelling, for their video explainer, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/02\/21\/in-utero-gene-editing-explainer\/\">What is in utero gene editing?<\/a>\u201d Molteni was also named a finalist for the 3M Truth in Science Award, for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/07\/10\/new-weight-loss-drugs-wegovy-food-cravings\/\">The new weight loss drugs are revolutionizing our understanding of desire. Food cravings could be just the beginning.<\/a>\u201d And a team of STAT reporters was a finalist in the Sports, Health and Wellness category, for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/awards.journalists.org\/entries\/the-obesity-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Obesity Revolution<\/a>\u201d series.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Poynter Journalism Prizes\u2019 Batten Medal<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross and Bob Herman won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/news-release\/2024\/poynter-journalism-prizes-honor-excellence-in-u-s-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poynter Journalism Prizes\u2019 Batten Medal<\/a>, which recognizes exceptional journalism that makes a difference to the lives of people and their communities, for their series\u00a0\u201cDenied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Edward R. Murrow Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was recognized with the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtdna.org\/2024-national-edward-r-murrow-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murrow Award<\/a> for excellence in writing in the large digital news organization category for Eric Boodman\u2019s profile, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/09\/06\/wes-adams-abortion-access-appalachia\/\">How a conservative, gun-toting doctor defended abortion access in Appalachia.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society of Professional Journalists<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spj.org\/sdxa23.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society of Professional Journalists<\/a> honored STAT with two 2023 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism. STAT was honored as the top Specialized Journalism Site, and Casey Ross and Bob Herman were honored in Business\/Finance Reporting for their series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence\/\">Denied by AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">NIHCM Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross and Bob Herman won the <a href=\"https:\/\/nihcm.org\/awards\/winners\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">award for investigative and general reporting<\/a> for \u201cDenied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans,\u201d a four-part series examining how Medicare Advantage plans use AI to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/07\/11\/medicare-advantage-algorithm-navihealth-unitedhealth-insurance-coverage\/\">cut off care for seniors in need<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT\u2019s Rachel Cohrs and MuckRock\u2019s Betsy Ladyzhets were named finalists in investigative and general reporting for their investigation, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/04\/20\/long-covid-nih-billion\/\">The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research<\/a> \u2014 with little to show for it.\u201d The Tradeoffs Podcast, in collaboration with STAT\u2019s Bob Herman and Tara Bannow, were named a finalist in television and audio for \u201cCan the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling received the <a href=\"https:\/\/casw.org\/news\/usha-lee-mcfarling-awarded-2024-victor-cohn-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">award<\/a> for exposing and explaining racial disparities in health care and her dedication to mentoring the next generation of journalists.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Evert Clark\/Seth Payne Award<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Jason Mast won the <a href=\"https:\/\/casw.org\/news\/jason-mast-wins-2024-evert-clark-seth-payne-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual prize for a young science journalist<\/a> for his reporting on the science, business decisions, and ethical conundrums of getting genetic medicines to people in need.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Bernard Lo MD Award in Bioethics<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwall.org\/news\/journalist-usha-lee-mcfarling-receives-bernard-lo-md-award-in-bioethics-for-shedding-light-on-inequity-in-medicine-and-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the 2024 award<\/a> from the Greenwall Foundation for her role in shaping the public discussion and policy debate about bioethics and equity in health care and research.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Asian American Journalists Association Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling won in the <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.aaja.org\/2024-journalism-excellence-awards\/excellence-in-science-environment-health-reporting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Excellence in Science \/ Environment \/ Health Reporting<\/a> category for coverage of Asian American health disparities.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">National Headliner Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross and Bob Herman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headlinerawards.org\/2024-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won first place<\/a> in the online investigative reporting for digital-only website category for their series \u201cDenied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans.\u201d Nicholas Florko won third place in the online beat reporting health and science category for his story on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/12\/21\/medical-marijuna-regulated-like-pharmaceuticals\/\">medical marijuana companies are using pharma\u2019s sales tactics<\/a> with little of the same scrutiny.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing \u201cBest in Business\u201d Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/2024\/03\/sabew-unveils-29th-annual-bib-awards-recipients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won for general excellence<\/a> in the medium division for its authoritative coverage of the business of health and medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/the-obesity-revolution\/\">\u201cThe Obesity Revolution\u201d series<\/a> won the explanatory category in the medium division. Elaine Chen, Matthew Herper, Nicholas Florko, Andrew Joseph, and Damian Garde were recognized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Bob Herman won in the health\/science category in the medium division for his investigation into rampant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/06\/20\/pbms-consulting-firms-investigation\/\">conflicts of interest between PBMs and consulting firms<\/a>. Herman and Casey Ross received an honorable mention in the same category for their investigation into how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence\/\">Medicare Advantage plans use AI<\/a> to cut off care for seniors in need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Tara Bannow received an honorable mention in the feature category, medium division, for her story on how the country\u2019s biggest hospital chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/11\/30\/hca-mission-hospital-cost-cutting-appalachia\/\">took over a storied hospital system in North Carolina<\/a>, a move that negatively impacted patient care.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Editor &amp; Publisher EPPY Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.creativecirclecdn.com\/editorandpublisher\/files\/20241117-122809-2af-2024-EPPY_Awards-Winners.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won for best business\/finance website<\/a> (small division), and placed second for best online-only news website (small division). It placed second for best investigative\/enterprise feature (small division) for Eric Boodman\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/05\/21\/sickle-cell-patients-steered-toward-sterilization-for-decades\/\">Coercive Care: For decades, physicians have steered sickle cell patient toward sterilization<\/a>\u201d and placed third in that category for Lev Facher\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/war-on-recovery\/\">The War on Recovery<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">National Magazine Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asme.media\/american-society-of-magazine-editors-announces-national-magazine-awards-2024-nominees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named as a finalist<\/a> for general excellence in the special interest category.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Bob Herman and Casey Ross <a href=\"https:\/\/goldsmithawards.org\/announcing-the-2024-goldsmith-prize-for-investigative-reporting-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were named finalists<\/a> for their investigation into how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence\/\">Medicare Advantage plans use AI<\/a> to cut off care for seniors in need.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Investigative Reporters &amp; Editors Award<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross and Bob Herman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ire.org\/announcing-the-2023-ire-award-winners-and-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were named finalists<\/a> in print\/online \u2013 division I for their series \u201cDenied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was a finalist for this award from the <a href=\"https:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/news\/spotlight\/propublica-team-wins-2024-selden-ring-award-friends-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism<\/a>. The investigative series by Casey Ross and Bob Herman looked at how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/12\/28\/medicare-advantage-united-health-navihealth-rehab-care-restrictions\/\">UnitedHealth used secret, algorithm-based rules<\/a> to make critical \u2014 and often devastating \u2014 health care coverage decisions.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT won third place in the consumer feature (large) category for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/the-obesity-revolution\/\">Obesity Revolution series<\/a>. Casey Ross and Bob Herman won second place in the investigative (large) category for their Denied by AI series, and Herman received an honorable mention in the business category for his story on how opaque conflicts of interest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/06\/20\/pbms-consulting-firms-investigation\/\">permeate prescription drug benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2023<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Edward R. Murrow Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was recognized with the national Murrow Award for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtdna.org\/2023-national-edward-r-murrow-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion<\/a> in the large digital news organization category. Three stories on inequality in medicine by Usha Lee McFarling and Angus Chen were honored. Stories included the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/06\/20\/black-doctors-forced-out-of-training-programs-at-far-higher-rates-than-white-residents\/\">challenges faced by Black medical residents<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/06\/30\/this-clinical-trial-wanted-to-end-breast-cancer-disparities-but-first-it-needed-to-enroll-black-women\/\">breast cancer disparities in clinical trials<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/11\/01\/pulse-oximeters-inaccuracies-fda-scrutiny\/\">racial differences in pulse oximeter accuracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">News &amp; Documentary Emmy Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">The STAT documentary \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/video\/augmented\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Augmented<\/a>,\u201d directed by Matthew Orr and produced with NOVA, received a national <a href=\"https:\/\/theemmys.tv\/news-44th-nominations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmy nomination<\/a> in the \u201cOutstanding Science and Technology Documentary\u201d category.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Americas<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was honored for <a href=\"https:\/\/wan-ifra.org\/2023\/05\/winners-of-wan-ifras-digital-media-awards-americas-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best news website<\/a>, and was also the small or local company winner in that category. STAT also won the award for best digital subscription initiative from a small or local company.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">American Association for Cancer Research<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Angus Chen and Nicholas St. Fleur won the <a href=\"%22https:\/\/www.aacr.org\/about-the-aacr\/newsroom\/the-aacr-june-l-biedler-prize-for-cancer-journalism\/:\">AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism<\/a> in the online\/multimedia category. Chen won for a story on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/08\/03\/vcu-cancer-center-director-build-trust-with-black-patients\/\">trust-building cancer center director<\/a> reaching out in marginalized neighborhoods. St. Fleur won for a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/22\/colorectal-cancer-hot-spots-young-men-dying-higher-rates\/\">Chadwick Boseman\u2019s colorectal cancer<\/a> and its wider implications for young Black men.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Editor &amp; Publisher EPPY Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT won best business reporting for an Allison DeAngelis story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/06\/12\/laronde-data-integrity-issues-biotech\/\">data integrity issues at a biotech startup<\/a>. We were honored for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/06\/27\/stat-homepage-redesign-rick-berke-letter\/\">best website redesign\/relaunch<\/a> in the small division, and were finalists in the small division for best investigative\/enterprise feature, a look at how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence\/\">Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">ASME National Magazine Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was a finalist for general excellence from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asme.media\/american-society-of-magazine-editors-announces-finalists-for-2023-national-magazine-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Society of Magazine Editors<\/a>. Nicholas Florko was a finalist in public interest for \u201cDeath Sentence,\u201d an investigation into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/death-sentence\/\">lack of care for incarcerated people with Hepatitis C<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Livingston Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Nicholas Florko was a <a href=\"https:\/\/wallacehouse.umich.edu\/library\/an-investigation-into-prisons-refusal-to-treat-hepatitis-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national reporting finalist<\/a> for this University of Michigan award for the best journalists under 35. He investigated the prisons\u2019 policy to treat incarcerated people with hepatitis C.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">NIHCM Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">For the <a href=\"https:\/\/nihcm.org\/awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general circulation journalism award<\/a>, Angus Chen was a finalist for a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/06\/02\/car-t-crisis-cancer-patients-die-waiting\/\">cancer patients dying while on a waiting list<\/a>. STAT\u2019s Casey Ross and MIT\u2019s Adam Yala, Janice Yang and Ludvig Karstens were finalists for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/28\/sepsis-hospital-algorithms-data-shift\/\">exposing AI dangers with patient data<\/a>. J. Emory Parker was a finalist for the digital media award for a piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/05\/10\/the-five-pandemics-driving-1-million-u-s-covid-deaths\/\">1 million U.S. Covid deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Online News Association Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling was a finalist in the topical reporting: race, gender, and identity category (medium newsroom) for her series of stories on <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.journalists.org\/entries\/racism-in-medicine-and-the-dire-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racism in medicine<\/a> and the dire consequences.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing \u201cBest in Business\u201d Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Katie Palmer, Mario Aguilar and J. Emory Parker received an honorable mention in data journalism, small division, for a data-driven investigation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/04\/18\/fda-breakthrough-device-designation-investigation\/\">FDA breakthrough medical device program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Lev Facher received an honorable mention in health\/science, small division, for a story of how a D.C. power couple used an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/01\/11\/brian-wallach-sandra-abrevaya-als-advocacy\/\">ALS diagnosis<\/a> to create a political juggernaut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">A collaboration of The Markup and STAT received an honorable mention in investigative, small division, for \u201cPixel Hunt,\u201d a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/pixel-hunt\/2022\/12\/13\/out-of-control-dozens-of-telehealth-startups-sent-sensitive-health-information-to-big-tech-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">privacy implications of website tracking pixels<\/a> used on health care sites.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2022<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">George Polk Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Adam Feuerstein, Matthew Herper, and Damian Garde won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liu.edu\/polk-awards\/past-winners#2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Polk Award<\/a> in the medical reporting category. Their investigation found that Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/29\/biogen-fda-alzheimers-drug-approval-aduhelm-project-onyx\/\">Aduhelm, a costly treatment for Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Edward R. Murrow Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was recognized with the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtdna.org\/2022-national-edward-r-murrow-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murrow Award<\/a> for excellence in writing in the large digital news organization category for Eric Boodman\u2019s story, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/12\/21\/ankylosing-spondylitis-diagnosis-black-women\/\">How medicine erased Black women from a \u2018white man\u2019s disease\u2019<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">NIHCM Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, Matthew Herper, and Nicholas Florko won the <a href=\"https:\/\/nihcm.org\/awards\/winners\/2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NICHM Award<\/a> in the general circulation journalism category for their coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/29\/biogen-fda-alzheimers-drug-approval-aduhelm-project-onyx\/\">controversial approval of an Alzheimer\u2019s drug<\/a>. Casey Ross was a finalist for his coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/07\/26\/epic-hospital-algorithms-sepsis-investigation\/\">artificial intelligence in health care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Association of Health Care Journalists Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling won first place in the beat reporting category for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/staff\/usha-mcfarling\/\">reporting on health disparities and structural racism<\/a> in medicine.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing \u201cBest in Business\u201d Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, Matthew Herper, and Nicholas Florko <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/best-in-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won<\/a> in the investigative category, small division, for their coverage of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/29\/biogen-fda-alzheimers-drug-approval-aduhelm-project-onyx\/\">Project Onyx<\/a>\u201d and the controversial approval of an Alzheimer\u2019s drug.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Eric Boodman received an honorable mention for \u201cSelling Certainty,\u201d a story about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/10\/20\/selling-certainty-epicgenetics-physician-was-one-of-fibromyalgia-patients-few-true-allies-or-was-he\/\">EpicGenetics fibromyalgia testing <\/a> that later prompted a lawsuit from a consumer watchdog group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Rachel Cohrs received an honorable mention for her investigation into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/11\/16\/ascension-investigation-moonlighting-private-equity-firm\/\">hospital system moonlighting as a private equity firm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Scripps Howard Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was named a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scripps_Howard_Awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scripps Howard Award<\/a> finalist in the excellence in visual journalism\u00a0category for \u201cDistanced.\u201d Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/distanced\/\">impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities<\/a> in the South.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was named a finalist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/asme.memberclicks.net\/american-society-of-magazine-editors-announces-finalists-for-2022-national-magazine-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration<\/a> in the best service and lifestyle story category for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/distanced\/\">\u201cDistanced.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/color-code\/\">\u201cColor Code\u201d<\/a> won first place in the podcast category, and data-driven projects for STAT subscribers were a finalist in the reader revenue initiative category.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Editor &amp; Publisher EPPY Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">From <a href=\"%22https:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/\">Editor &amp; Publisher<\/a>, an award for best investigative\/enterprise feature for Tara Bannow\u2019s story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/08\/15\/private-equity-autism-aba-therapy\/\">private equity\u2019s profit fixation short-changing children with autism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Best collaborative investigative\/enterprise reporting for a Casey Ross story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/28\/sepsis-hospital-algorithms-data-shift\/\">AI algorithms undermining patient safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Best business reporting for a Rachel Cohrs story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/11\/16\/ascension-running-wall-street-style-private-equity-fund\/\">a tax-exempt hospital system running a private equity fund.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Best use of data\/infographics in division for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/05\/10\/the-five-pandemics-driving-1-million-u-s-covid-deaths\/\">The \u2018five pandemics\u2019 driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Best photojournalism on a website for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/distanced\/\">Distanced: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2021<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">George Polk Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Helen Branswell won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liu.edu\/polk-awards\/past-winners#2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Polk Award in the public service category<\/a> for her \u201crelentless coverage\u201d of all aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Pulitzer Prizes<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Helen Branswell, Andrew Joseph, and the late Sharon Begley were named Pulitzer Prize finalists in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/finalists\/helen-branswell-andrew-joseph-and-late-sharon-begley-stat-boston-mass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breaking news reporting category<\/a> \u201cfor their prescient, expert and accessible coverage of the emergence of COVID-19, sounding the alarm on the potential spread and potency of the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Edward R. Murrow Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">STAT was recognized with the national Murrow Award for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-2021-wins-edward-murrow-award-overall-excellence\/\">overall excellence<\/a> in the large digital journalism category for its coverage of Covid-19, \u201cone of the biggest stories of our lifetimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Awarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/casw.org\/news\/branswell-and-maxmen-share-2021-victor-cohn-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Branswell<\/a> for her coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">National Headliner Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Eric Boodman won first place in the digital features category for his story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/06\/30\/covid19-death-of-hospital-food-worker-a-microcosm-of-pandemic\/\">Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker<\/a>. Helen Branswell and Sharon Begley won third place for online pandemic coverage.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society of Professional Journalists New America Award<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Eric Boodman won this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spj.org\/news.asp?ref=1825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPJ award<\/a> for this story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/06\/30\/covid19-death-of-hospital-food-worker-a-microcosm-of-pandemic\/\">In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Livingston Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Eric Boodman was a national reporting finalist for this University of Michigan award for the best journalists under 35, for his story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/06\/30\/covid19-death-of-hospital-food-worker-a-microcosm-of-pandemic\/\">Covid-19 death<\/a> of a hospital worker.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Asian American Journalists Association Journalism Excellence Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Usha Lee McFarling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaja.org\/2022\/07\/27\/aaja-announces-2022-journalism-excellence-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was honored<\/a> for stories on how Covid-19 impacted marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Evert Clark\/Seth Payne Award<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Nicholas St. Fleur won the <a href=\"https:\/\/casw.org\/news\/nicholas-st-fleur-wins-evert-clark-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual prize for a young science journalist<\/a> for his reporting, particularly on topics around race, medicine, and research.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing \u201cBest in Business\u201d Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Nicholas Florko won <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/best-in-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first place<\/a> in the newsletter category for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/d-c-diagnosis\/\">D.C. Diagnosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Editor &amp; Publisher EPPY Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Best business coverage for \u201cGroundbreaking Coverage of Momentous Alzheimer\u2019s Drug Approval\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Best enterprise video for Nicholas St. Fleur and Hyacinth Empinado: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/22\/why-i-got-a-colonoscopy-so-young-and-documented-every-step\/\">Why I Got a Colonoscopy So Young.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Best mobile news app in division.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/morning-rounds\/\">Morning Rounds<\/a> won for <a href=\"https:\/\/events.wan-ifra.org\/events\/north-american-digital-media-awards-2021\/content\/5155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Newsletter<\/a> and was also the small\/local publisher winner in that category. STAT was the small\/local publisher winner for Best in Audience Engagement as well as for Best News Website.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Circular; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1; font-weight: 500; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Association of Health Care Journalists Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">Casey Ross, Rebecca Robbins, Erin Brodwin, and Dominic Smith\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthjournalism.org\/awards-winners.php?Year=2020#cat-36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won third place<\/a> in the consumer\/feature category for coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence in medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2020<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">\n<li><strong>Editor &amp; Publisher EPPY Awards:<\/strong> Best in division for online-only news website; best business\/finance website in division; best business reporting in division for \u201cThe Pandemic: An Historic Business Story\u201d; best use of data\/infographics in division for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/coronavirus\/covid-19-tracker\/\">Covid-19 Tracker<\/a>, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appliedxl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied XL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Leaders Association Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence:<\/strong> Eric Boodman won for a collection of features about medicine, including a story about the aftermath of a baby\u2019s death from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/03\/27\/sids-medical-bureaucrats-deepened-parents-anguish\/\">SIDS<\/a>, and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/medicine-hunters\/\">The Medicine Hunters<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/03\/27\/sids-medical-bureaucrats-deepened-parents-anguish\/\">.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>National Society of Newspaper Columnists:<\/strong> Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu won second place for general interest online columns, for two of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/the-regulars\/off-the-charts\/\">Off the Charts<\/a> columns about her experiences as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/08\/07\/favorite-patient-emotional-work-doctoring\/\">resident physician<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/12\/13\/baby-intensive-care-insurer-long-weekend\/\">new mother<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism:<\/strong> Eric Boodman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacr.org\/about-the-aacr\/newsroom\/news-releases\/american-association-for-cancer-research-announces-recipients-of-the-2020-aacr-june-l-biedler-prize-for-cancer-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won<\/a> in the online\/multimedia category for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/medicine-hunters\/\">The Medicine Hunters<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing \u201cBest in Business\u201d Awards:<\/strong><br>\nEric Boodman won <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/2019-best-in-business-honorees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first place<\/a> in the health\/science category and honorable mention in the feature category for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/medicine-hunters\/part-1\/\">The Medicine Hunters<\/a>.\u201d Matthew Herper won <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/2019-best-in-business-honorees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">honorable mention<\/a> in the commentary\/opinion category for articles on drug pricing and drug development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards:<\/strong>: STAT won for Best Paid Content Strategy: \u201cEvolving consumer revenue: From subscriptions to summits.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2019<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">\n<li><strong>AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award:<\/strong> Sharon Begley <a href=\"https:\/\/sjawards.aaas.org\/news\/winners-2019-aaas-kavli-science-journalism-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won in the online category<\/a> for a series of stories about how fierce loyalty to the prevailing hypothesis on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/06\/25\/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure\/\">the origin of Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a> likely has hampered progress toward a cure.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor &amp; Publisher Eppy Awards:<\/strong> STAT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/readout-loud\/\">\u201cThe Readout Loud\u201d<\/a> won for best podcast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Headliner Awards:<\/strong> Dom Smith and Sharon Begley won second place for their video explainer: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A5rUC6NiQfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How CRISPR works, explained in two minutes<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Association of Science Writers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasw.org\/mcgurgan-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diane McGurgan Service Award<\/a>:<\/strong> Shraddha Chakradhar co-won the award for her contributions of time and effort to promoting diversity in the science writing community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WAN-IFRA North American <a href=\"https:\/\/events.wan-ifra.org\/events\/north-american-digital-media-awards-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Media Awards<\/a>:<\/strong> STAT won for Best Paid Content Strategy: \u201cFrom IBM to Health Tech: Our journey to creating a new cross-channel vertical.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Livingston Awards:<\/strong> Damian Garde was named a national reporting finalist for this award from the <a href=\"https:\/\/wallacehouse.umich.edu\/livingston-awards\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wallace House Center for Journalism<\/a> at the University of Michigan. He was recognized his investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/12\/05\/orbimed-isaly-sexual-harrassment\/\">sexual harassment allegations against biotech hedge fund titan Sam Isaly<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2018<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">\n<li><strong>Gerald Loeb Awards: <\/strong> Ed Silverman won in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/ucla-anderson-school-of-management-announces-2018-gerald-loeb-award-winners-300672056.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentary category<\/a> for a collection of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/pharmalot-view\/\">The Pharmalot View<\/a>\u201d columns. Rebecca Robbins was a finalist for beat reporting for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/07\/20\/soon-shiong-conflicts-patients\/\">Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong\u2019s Business Empire<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Association of Health Care Journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/healthjournalism.org\/awards-jump.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism<\/a>:<\/strong> Helen Branswell won first place in beat reporting for coverage of infectious diseases and global health.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Society of American Business Editors and Writers:<\/strong> STAT won first place for General Excellence \u201cfor the breadth and quality of coverage, a powerful marriage of deep reporting with lively, engaging writing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Science in Society Journalism Award \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Association of Science Writers<\/a>:<\/strong> Eric Boodman won in the science category for his story, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/03\/22\/insect-delusional-parasitosis-entomology\/\">Accidental Therapists: For Insect Detectives, the Trickiest Cases Involve the Bugs That Aren\u2019t Really There.<\/a>\u201d Judges called it \u201ca gripping read,\u201d \u201cvivid,\u201d and \u201cmasterful.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>WAN-IFRA North American <a href=\"https:\/\/events.wan-ifra.org\/events\/north-american-digital-media-awards-2018\/content\/2727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Media Awards<\/a>:<\/strong> STAT won Best in Social Media Engagement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/topic\/stat-madness\/\">STAT Madness,an annual bracket-style science competition.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize\u201d<\/strong> David Armstrong of STAT and Evan Allen of the Boston Globe were named <a href=\"https:\/\/shorensteincenter.org\/goldsmith-awards\/investigative-reporting-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finalists<\/a> for \u201cThe Addiction Trade,\u201d a series of stories on the addiction treatment industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Headliner Awards\u201d<\/strong> &gt;STAT won Best Online Video (10 Minutes or Longer) for the documentary \u201cRunnin\u2019.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston:<\/strong> STAT won the Audience Award (Shorts Program) for the documentary \u201cRunnin\u2019.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hastings Center Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Ethics and Reprogenetics\u201d<\/strong><br>\nAndrew Joseph named runner-up for his story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/10\/23\/ivf-embryo-genetic-testing\/\">A baby with a disease gene or no baby at all<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Webby Awards:<\/strong> Hyacinth Empinado was named a nominee in the <a href=\"https:\/\/winners.webbyawards.com\/2018\/video\/general-video\/science-education\/53337\/drawing-life-at-its-start-cell-by-cell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science &amp; education video category<\/a> for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/02\/22\/cell-lineage-edwin-grant-conklin\/\">Drawing life at its start, cell by cell<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2017<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">\n<li><strong>Online News Association <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.journalists.org\/winners\/2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Journalism Awards<\/a>:<\/strong> David Armstrong, Matthew Orr, and the STAT project team won in the feature category for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/opioid-crisis\/dope-sick\/\">Dope Sick<\/a>,\u201d an immersive and raw narrative about best friends from a Toledo, Ohio, suburb who stumble into the world of opioids; one ends up dead, the other jailed for involuntary manslaughter. Carl Zimmer and the STAT project team won in the explanatory reporting category for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/game-of-genomes\/season-one\/\">Game of Genomes<\/a>,\u201d a 13-part series that enlisted two dozen scientists to explore Carl\u2019s own genome using the latest techniques to discover genetic mutations and even stretches of DNA inherited from Neanderthals.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/casw.org\/casw\/victor-cohn-prize-excellence-medical-science-reporting-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Cohn Prize<\/a> for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting:<\/strong> Awarded to <a href=\"http:\/\/casw.org\/casw\/announcement\/accomplished-journalist-sharon-begley-awarded-2017-victor-cohn-prize-medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharon Begley<\/a> for a collection of her work.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/casw.org\/evert-clark-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evert Clark\/Seth Payne Award<\/a> for Young Science Journalists:<\/strong> Awarded to <a href=\"http:\/\/casw.org\/announcement\/eric-boodman-wins-clark-payne-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Boodman<\/a> for a collection of his work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>American Society of Magazine Editors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magazine.org\/asme\/asme-next-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Awards<\/a> for Journalists Under 30:<\/strong> Awarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/asmenextawards.secure-platform.com\/a\/page\/previous-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Boodman<\/a> for a collection of his work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NIHCM Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nihcm.org\/categories\/digital-media-award-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Care Digital Media Award<\/a>:<\/strong> David Armstrong, Matthew Orr, and Natalia Bronshtein won for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/opioid-crisis\/dope-sick\/\">coverage of the opioid crisis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GlobeDocs Film Festival:<\/strong> STAT won the Audience Award (Shorts Program) for the documentary \u201cRunnin\u2019.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Webby Awards:<\/strong> STAT was named a nominee in the <a href=\"https:\/\/winners.webbyawards.com\/2017\/websites\/general-websites\/health\/9431\/stat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health website category<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"color: #999999; text-align: left;\">2016<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.4;\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sjawards.aaas.org\/2016winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award<\/a>:<\/strong> Charles Piller and Natalia Bronshtein won in the online category for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2015\/12\/13\/clinical-trials-investigation\/\">\u201cFailure to Report,\u201d<\/a> an investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov, the government website that tracks clinical trials and their results.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Society of American Business Editors and Writers <a href=\"https:\/\/sabew.org\/2016-best-in-business-honorees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best in Business Award<\/a>:<\/strong> David Armstrong won in the health\/science category for coverage of the national opioid addiction crisis, including stories on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/abbott-oxycontin-crusade\/\">marketing of OxyContin<\/a>, its manufacturer\u2019s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/10\/26\/oxycontin-maker-thwarted-limits\/\">thwart prescribing restrictions<\/a>, and the death of a woman from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/30\/fentanyl-opioid-insys-subsys\/\">high doses of legal fentanyl<\/a> prescribed \u201coff label.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Online News Association <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.journalists.org\/entries\/disqualified-concussions-college-football-players-recruited-back-onto-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Journalism Awards<\/a>:<\/strong> 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