Health stories win at ONA for investigations, multimedia
The Online News Association has honored two of this years bumper crop of excellent health pieces with top honors in their respective categories at the 2011 Online Journalism Awards, with nods going to pioneering work by both ProPublica and The Washington Post.
For ProPublica, AHCJ member Robin Fields examination of the nations Medicare-funded dialysis system and what this oft-overlooked federal budget item tells us about the implementation of socialized medicine in America earned the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism in the Small Site category. Since its publication, Fields award-winning piece has continued to evolve, adding data and updates as they become available.
Also nominated in the category were ProPublicas Dollars for Docs and Investigative Wests Livesaving Drugs, Deadly Consequences.
The other prominent health winner was The Washington Posts video-heavy Traumatic Brain Injury: Coming home a different person, which beat out another multimedia piece, the Los Angeles Times Dylans Brain, in the large site category of the Multimedia Feature Presentation award.
Earlier: Health journalists poised for strong showing at 2011 ONA Awards
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