KHN has been recognized repeatedly by our peers in journalism with an increasing number of awards honoring our reports on the American health care system.
2020
The Gerald Loeb Award
- Explanatory: Death by 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
- Commentary: “America’s Broken Health Care System” columns
Pulitzer Prize
- Investigative Journalism, Finalist: “UVA Lawsuits” series
The Goldsmith Awards
- Investigative Reporting, Finalist: “Hidden Harm” series
National Press Club Awards
- Consumer Journalism: “Hidden Harm” series
Edward R. Murrow Awards
- Investigative Reporting: “Hidden Harm” series
SABEW Best in Business Award
- Government, medium division: “Hidden Harm” series
- Health/Science, medium division: “UVA Lawsuits” series
- International reporting, medium and small divisions: In India’s Burgeoning Pain Market, U.S. Drugmakers Stand to Gain
- Investigative, medium division: “Hidden Harm” series
- Commentary/Opinion, medium division: “America’s Broken Health Care System” columns
National Headliner Awards
- Online Beat Coverage: “No Mercy” series
Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Awards
- Public Service in Online Journalism: “UVA Lawsuits” series
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
- Science Reporting: Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus (part of the “Underfunded and Under Threat” series jointly produced with The Associated Press)
Society for Professional Journalists Awards
- Sunshine Award: “Hidden Harm” series
Editor & Publisher Eppy Awards
- Best Community Service on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors: “UVA Lawsuits” series
Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards
2019
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism
- Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Reporting: “Hidden Harm” series
SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Health/Science, small division: Drug price shenanigans
The Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Awards
- Excellence in reporting about freedom of information, access to government-held information, or the First Amendment: “Hidden Harm” series
National Press Foundation Awards
- The Feddie Reporting Award: “Hidden Harm” series
National Headliner Awards
- Online Beat Coverage: “Treatment Overkill” series
AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
- Investigative, large division: “Hidden Harm” series
2018
AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Business: “Rogue Vaccine“ series
NCDJ Katherine Schneider Medal
- Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability: Nowhere to Go: Young People With Severe Autism Languish in Hospitals
NIHCM Annual Research and Journalism Award
- Digital Media Award: “The Orphan Drug Machine” series
National Press Club Journalism Awards
- Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award: “The Orphan Drug Machine” series
2017
AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
- Business: “Liquid Gold” series
National Association of Black Journalists
- Newspaper, speciality, over 150,000: Medicaid Is Balm And Benefit For Victims Of Gun Violence
