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.
2021
SABEW Best in Business Award
- Data Journalism, medium division: Millions of Older Americans Live in Counties With No ICU Beds
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
