Television and Radio Journalism Award
The NIHCM Foundation Health Care Television and Radio Journalism Award recognizes excellence in television and radio reporting on health care issues and policy.
Application Information
We are now accepting entries for our 14th Annual Television and Radio Journalism Award. The entry deadline is January 19, 2021. Please enter by clicking on the button below.
14th Annual Television and Radio Journalism Award Process
Prize
A $20,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
Have questions about our Television and Radio Journalism Award?
Award FAQEligibility
- Entries must originally have aired during calendar year 2020
- 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 staff employees of 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
Entry
- Deadline: January 19, 2021
- Entry is free
- Limit three entries per entrant
- Applicants must submit a URL link to their piece or series. Please contact Josh Hamburg at jhamburg[at]nihcm.org if you are unable submit a link to your entry.
Selection Criteria
- New insights generated by the reporting
- Impact on health care policy
- Quality of writing and production
Judges
Callie Crossley
Television Commentator, WGBH; Radio Commentator, NPR; former Health and Medicine Producer, 20/20, ABC News
Susan Dentzer
Visiting Fellow, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University; former Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; former Health Correspondent, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS
Gisele Grayson
Senior Producer, Science Desk, NPR
Stone Phillips
StonePhillipsReports.com; former Dateline NBC Anchor
Alice Irene Pifer
Co-Producer, Beyond Hoarding Documentary; Co-Editor, The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity; former Producer, ABC News
Julie Rovner
Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Chief Washington Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
Susan Wagner
Senior Coordinating Producer, Medical Unit, NBC News