I am pleased to announce that Chicago Health and seven of its writers and designers have won prestigious journalistic awards and recognition for their work in 2019.
In the Illinois Women’s Press Association’s 2019 Mate E. Palmer Contest, first place awards went to writers Katie Scarlett Brandt under “Feature story ‒ Magazine, for her story “Lead’s Dangerous Legacy”; Debra Chandler Landis, under “Feature Story, Online Publication” for her story “Dangers of Vaping Include Addictive Nicotine, Toxic Chemicals”; Linda Mulholland under “Specialty Article ‒ Science or Technology” for her story “Training Cells to Attack: Groundbreaking CAR T-cell therapy”; Kelly K. James under, “Specialty Article – Physical Health” for her story “Controlling Chronic Pain: A shift in approach delivers a dose of hope”. Designer, Erin Sullivan received a second-place award under “Page Design, Magazine or Newsletter” for her layout of “What Are You Weighting For?”. The staff of Chicago Health magazine also received the Silver Pen Award for the most First-Place winners from the IWPA.
In addition, The Chicago Headline Club announced designer Andrea Fowler has been chosen as a finalist for a prestigious Peter Lisagor Award for “Best Design” for her “future of healthcare cover, future of healthcare story, pain and mental health stories”.
Finally, among the thirteen 2020 MORE Award national winners from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons were writers Kelly K. James and Annemarie Mannion.
These awards follow recent honors from the Illinois Women’s Press Association (2017, 2018) as well as a 2017 Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club and a 2016 writing award from The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) which awarded Chicago Health writer Kate Silver for her story “Needles in the Cornfields” an early story about the rise of heroin deaths and the failure of state-funded treatment in Illinois. Kate’s story was one of only a handful recognized by ASJA alongside stories from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired and others.
Since 2016 twelve Chicago Health staff writers and designers have received awards for journalistic excellence.
