Apply Now: Television and Audio Journalism Award (US)

Prize Information

• A $20,000 prize will be presented to the winner.

Eligibility Criteria

• Entries must originally have aired during calendar year 2024.
• Entry can be either an individual story or a series.
• Stories must be advertised and disseminated as an official series in order to be submitted as one entry.
• Entries will be accepted from national or local news organizations, nationally-distributed cable programs, online streaming platforms or from freelance journalists who have produced reports disseminated by same.
• Online stories will be accepted if produced for and disseminated originally on the web in affiliation with a television or radio news organization, or through an online streaming platform.
• No single submission can be longer than 3 hours. If your entry is longer than 3 hours, please select 3 hours to submit.
• All entries must address some aspect of health care management, financing, delivery and organization, affordability, and/or rising health care costs; with an eye toward how this research can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
• Entries should focus on health care in the United States.

Selection Criteria

• Quality of storytelling.
• Entry produces impact or insights that may improve health care management, are relevant to the private sector, generate new evidence on health care affordability and how rising health care prices affect quality and access, and/or inform health care policy along these dimensions.
• The best and most impactful entries can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.

For more information, visit NIHCM.