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March
30, 2020
KHN Wins Five “Best in Business” Awards and Two Honorable Mentions
from The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW)
KFF’s
Kaiser Health News (KHN), an editorially independent news service focusing
on health care and policy, has won five “Best in Business” awards from the
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). The awards,
announced today, recognize outstanding business journalism in 2019.
The
five awards, all of which came in the division for medium size news
organizations, include:
America’s Broken Health Care System, by
Elisabeth Rosenthal, KHN Editor-in-Chief, winner in the Commentary/Opinion
category. The judges wrote that Rosenthal “deftly uses the
medical bills she received to guide readers through the maze of
medical bureaucracy and deliver a clear exposition of how and why the
nation’s health care system has become so beleaguered, unfair and
inefficient.”
Hidden Harm, by
Christina Jewett, winner in the government category and co-winner in the
investigative reporting category. The judges wrote
that, “Jewett’s stories unearthed a Dr. Evil-scale cover-up of hidden FDA
data on millions of medical device malfunctions, injuries and deaths. Her
coverage forced the administration to open this vital data to both doctors
who perform procedures as well as public scrutiny, and in the process, no
doubt saved countless lives.”
University of Virginia Health System lawsuits,
by
Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas, winner in the Health/Science category.
The judges wrote that KHN “exposed how the center’s overly aggressive billing
and collection policies were ruining people’s lives.”
In India’s burgeoning pain market, U.S.
drugmakers stand to gain, by Sarah Varney, winner in
the international reporting category. The judges wrote that
“Varney uncovered a trend in India of sweeping importance: the relatively new
cultural acceptance of pain medication and the pharmaceutical companies,
largely chased away from places like the United States, that are looking to
capitalize on the trend.”
KHN
also earned two honorable mentions, including one in the economics category
for No Mercy, a series by Sarah
Jane Tribble that looks at what happens when the closure of a rural hospital
disrupts a community, and another in the feature category, for Varney’s story
about India’s market for pain medication.
For
more on the awards, visit SABEW’s website.
KHN
content is always available to news organizations to republish free of
charge.
About The
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Kaiser Health News:
Filling
the need for trusted information on national health issues, KFF (the Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation) is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco,
California. KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF and is the
nation’s leading and largest health and health policy newsroom, producing
stories that run on khn.org and are published by hundreds of news
organizations across the country.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
KHN Wins Five “Best in Business” Awards and Two Honorable Mentions from The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW)
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