Our Awards
2024
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing “Best in Business” Awards
STAT won for general excellence in the medium division for its authoritative coverage of the business of health and medicine.
STAT’s Obesity Revolution series won the explanatory category in the medium division. Elaine Chen, Matthew Herper, Nicholas Florko, Andrew Joseph, and Damian Garde were recognized.
Bob Herman won in the health/science category in the medium division for his investigation into rampant conflicts of interest between PBMs and consulting firms. Herman and Casey Ross received an honorable mention in the same category for their investigation into how Medicare Advantage plans use AI to cut off care for seniors in need.
Tara Bannow received an honorable mention in the feature category, medium division, for her story on how the country’s biggest hospital chain took over a storied hospital system in North Carolina, a move that negatively impacted patient care.
National Magazine Awards
STAT was named as a finalist for general excellence in the special interest category.
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism
Bob Herman and Casey Ross were named finalists for their investigation into how Medicare Advantage plans use AI to cut off care for seniors in need.
Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting
STAT was named as a finalist for Casey Ross and Bob Herman’s series of investigations into how UnitedHealth had been boosting its bottom line by using obscure algorithms to make critical — and often devastating — health care coverage decisions for older adults with Medicare Advantage plans.
2023
Edward R. Murrow Awards
STAT was recognized with the national Murrow Award for excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion in the large digital news organization category for these three stories on inequality in medicine by Usha Lee McFarling and Angus Chen.
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
The STAT documentary “Augmented,” directed by Matthew Orr and produced with NOVA, received a national Emmy nomination in the “Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary” category.
WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Americas
STAT won for best news website, and was also the small or local company winner in that category. STAT also won the award for best digital subscription initiative from a small or local company.
American Association for Cancer Research
Angus Chen and Nicholas St. Fleur won the AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism in the online/multimedia category. Chen won for his story “The trust-builder: a cancer center director’s try-it-all strategy for breaking the barriers between research and Black patients.” St. Fleur won for his story “Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy: In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates.”
Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards
STAT won best business reporting in the small division and best website redesign/relaunch in the small division. It was also finalist in the small division for best investigative/enterprise feature.
ASME National Magazine Awards
STAT was a finalist for general excellence, and Nicholas Florko was a finalist in public interest for “Death Sentence.”
Livingston Awards
Nicholas Florko was a national reporting finalist for his investigation into prisons’ refusal to treat hepatitis C.
NIHCM Awards
For the general circulation journalism award, Angus Chen was a finalist for The CAR-T Crisis: Cancer patients are dying on a wait list, and Casey Ross and MIT’s Adam Yala, Janice Yang and Ludvig Karstens were finalists for exposing the dangers of technology’s march into medicine. J. Emory Parker was a finalist for the digital media award for “The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths.”
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing “Best in Business” Awards
Katie Palmer, Mario Aguilar and J. Emory Parker received an honorable mention in data journalism, small division, for a data-driven investigation into a secretive program benefiting medical device makers.
Lev Facher received an honorable mention in health/science, small division, for a story of how a D.C. power couple used an ALS diagnosis to create a political juggernaut.
A collaboration of The Markup and STAT received an honorable mention in investigative, small division, for “Pixel Hunt.” “Pixel Hunt” also received an honorable mention in technology, small division.
2022
George Polk Awards
Adam Feuerstein, Matthew Herper, and Damian Garde won the George Polk Award in the medical reporting category for “revealing Biogen’s covert lobbying of the Food and Drug Administration, which overruled its scientific advisors to grant approval for Biogen’s new and costly treatment for Alzheimer’s disease despite questionable trial results.”
Edward R. Murrow Awards
STAT was recognized with the national Murrow Award for excellence in writing in the large digital news organization category for Eric Boodman’s story, “How medicine erased Black women from a ‘white man’s disease’.”
NIHCM Awards
Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, Matthew Herper, and Nicholas Florko won in the general circulation journalism category for their coverage of the controversial approval of an Alzheimer’s drug. Casey Ross was a finalist for his coverage of artificial intelligence in health care.
Association of Health Care Journalists Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Usha Lee McFarling won first place in the beat reporting category for her reporting on health disparities and structural racism in medicine.
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing “Best in Business” Awards
Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, Matthew Herper, and Nicholas Florko won in the investigative category, small division, for their coverage of the controversial approval of an Alzheimer’s drug. In the health/science category, small division, Eric Boodman received an honorable mention for “Selling Certainty” and Rachel Cohrs received an honorable mention for her investigation into the hospital system Ascension.
Scripps Howard Awards
STAT was named a finalist in the excellence in visual journalism category for “Distanced,” with photographs by Bethany Mollenkof.
ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration
STAT was named a finalist for the ASME Awards for Photography and Illustration in the best service and lifestyle story category for “Distanced.”
WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards
“Color Code” won first place in the podcast category, and data-driven projects for STAT subscribers were a finalist in the reader revenue initiative category.
Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards
Best investigative/enterprise feature in division for “Parents and clinicians say private equity’s profit fixation is short-changing kids with autism.”
Best collaborative investigative/enterprise reporting in division for “AI gone astray: How subtle shifts in patient data send popular algorithms reeling, undermining patient safety.”
Best business reporting in division for “The Catholic hospital system Ascension is running a Wall Street-style private equity fund.”
Best use of data/infographics in division for “The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths.”
Best photojournalism on a website in division for “DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South.”
2021
George Polk Awards
Helen Branswell won the George Polk Award in the public service category for her “relentless coverage” of all aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Pulitzer Prizes
Helen Branswell, Andrew Joseph, and the late Sharon Begley were named Pulitzer Prize finalists in the breaking news reporting category “for their prescient, expert and accessible coverage of the emergence of COVID-19, sounding the alarm on the potential spread and potency of the virus.”
Edward R. Murrow Awards
STAT was recognized with the national Murrow Award for overall excellence in the large digital journalism category for its coverage of Covid-19, “one of the biggest stories of our lifetimes.”
Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting
Awarded to Helen Branswell for her coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.
National Headliner Awards
Eric Boodman won first place in the digital features category for his story, “In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic.” Helen Branswell and Sharon Begley won third place for online pandemic coverage.
Society of Professional Journalists New America Award
Eric Boodman won for his story, “In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic.”
Asian American Journalists Association Journalism Excellence Awards
Usha Lee McFarling won the award for excellence in science / heath/ environment reporting for stories on how Covid-19 impacted marginalized communities.
Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award
Nicholas St. Fleur won the annual prize for young science journalists for his reporting, particularly on topics around race, medicine, and research.
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing “Best in Business” Awards
Nicholas Florko won first place in the newsletter category for D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter on the politics and policy of medicine.
Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards
Best business coverage in division for “Groundbreaking Coverage of Momentous Alzheimer’s Drug Approval”
Best enterprise video in division for “Why I Got a Colonoscopy So Young”
Best mobile news app in division
WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards
Morning Rounds won first place for Best Newsletter and was also the small/local publisher winner in that category. STAT was the small/local publisher winner for Best in Audience Engagement as well as for Best News Website.
Association of Health Care Journalists Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Casey Ross, Rebecca Robbins, Erin Brodwin, and Dominic Smith won third place in the consumer/feature category for coverage of artificial intelligence in medicine.
2020
Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards
Best in division for online-only news website
Best business/finance website in division
Best business reporting in division for “The Pandemic: An Historic Business Story”
Best use of data/infographics in division for the Covid-19 Tracker, in partnership with Applied XL
News Leaders Association Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence
Eric Boodman won for a collection of his writing about medicine, including a story about the aftermath of a baby’s death from SIDS, and “The Medicine Hunters.”
National Society of Newspaper Columnists column-writing contest
Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu won second place for general interest online columns, for two of her Off the Charts columns about her experiences as a resident physician and a new mother.
AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism
Eric Boodman won in the online/multimedia category for “The Medicine Hunters.”
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing “Best in Business” Awards
Eric Boodman won first place in the health/science category and honorable mention in the feature category for “The Medicine Hunters.”
Matthew Herper won honorable mention in the commentary/opinion category for articles on drug pricing and drug development.
WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards
STAT won for Best Paid Content Strategy: “Evolving consumer revenue: From subscriptions to summits.”
2019
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award
Sharon Begley won in the online category for a series of stories about how fierce loyalty to the prevailing hypothesis on the origin of Alzheimer’s disease likely has hampered progress toward a cure.
Editor & Publisher Eppy Awards
STAT’s “The Readout Loud” won for best podcast.
National Headliner Awards
Dom Smith and Sharon Begley won second place for their video explainer: “How CRISPR works, explained in two minutes.”
National Association of Science Writers Diane McGurgan Service Award
Shraddha Chakradhar co-won the award for her contributions of time and effort to promoting diversity in the science writing community.
WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards
STAT won for Best Paid Content Strategy: “From IBM to Health Tech: Our journey to creating a new cross-channel vertical.”
Livingston Awards
Damian Garde was named a national reporting finalist for his investigation into sexual harassment allegations against biotech hedge fund titan Sam Isaly.
2018
Gerald Loeb Awards
Ed Silverman won in the commentary category for a collection of “The Pharmalot View” columns. Rebecca Robbins was a finalist for beat reporting for “Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Business Empire.”
Association of Health Care Journalists Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Helen Branswell won first place in beat reporting for coverage of infectious diseases and global health.
Society of American Business Editors and Writers
STAT won first place for General Excellence “for the breadth and quality of coverage, a powerful marriage of deep reporting with lively, engaging writing.”
Science in Society Journalism Award — National Association of Science Writers
Eric Boodman won in the science category for his story, “Accidental Therapists: For Insect Detectives, the Trickiest Cases Involve the Bugs That Aren’t Really There.” Judges called it “a gripping read,” “vivid,” and “masterful.”
WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards
STAT won Best in Social Media Engagement for STAT Madness.
Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize
David Armstrong of STAT and Evan Allen of the Boston Globe were named finalists for “The Addiction Trade,” a series of stories on the addiction treatment industry.
National Headliner Awards
STAT won Best Online Video (10 Minutes or Longer) for the documentary “Runnin’.”
Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston
STAT won the Audience Award (Shorts Program) for the documentary “Runnin’.”
Hastings Center Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Ethics and Reprogenetics
Andrew Joseph named runner-up for his story “A baby with a disease gene or no baby at all.”
Webby Awards
Hyacinth Empinado was named a nominee in the science & education video category for “Drawing life at its start, cell by cell.”
2017
Online News Association Online Journalism Awards
David Armstrong, Matthew Orr, and the STAT project team won in the feature category for “Dope Sick,” an immersive and raw narrative about best friends from a Toledo, Ohio, suburb who stumble into the world of opioids; one ends up dead, the other jailed for involuntary manslaughter.
Carl Zimmer and the STAT project team won in the explanatory reporting category for “Game of Genomes,” a 13-part series that enlisted two dozen scientists to explore Carl’s own genome using the latest techniques to discover genetic mutations and even stretches of DNA inherited from Neanderthals.
Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting
Awarded to Sharon Begley for a collection of her work.
Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists
Awarded to Eric Boodman for a collection of his work.
American Society of Magazine Editors Next Awards for Journalists Under 30
Awarded to Eric Boodman for a collection of his work.
NIHCM Foundation Health Care Digital Media Award
David Armstrong, Matthew Orr, and Natalia Bronshtein won for coverage of the opioid crisis.
GlobeDocs Film Festival
STAT won the Audience Award (Shorts Program) for the documentary “Runnin’.”
Webby Awards
STAT was named a nominee in the health website category.
2016
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award
Charles Piller and Natalia Bronshtein won in the online category for “Failure to Report,” an investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov, the government website that tracks clinical trials and their results.
Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Award
David Armstrong won in the health/science category for coverage of the national opioid addiction crisis, including stories on the marketing of OxyContin, its manufacturer’s efforts to thwart prescribing restrictions, and the death of a woman from high doses of legal fentanyl prescribed “off label.”
Online News Association Online Journalism Awards
David Armstrong and Matthew Orr won in the sports category for an examination of how college athletes with repeated concussions are allowed to continue playing despite serious risks to their health.